#Plumber finds money in church wall full#

on November 10, Houston police officers were called to Lakewood Church at 3700 Southwest Freeway for a report of property discovered in the building,” the Houston Police Department confirmed Friday on Twitter. A plumber came forward to reveal that he was replacing a toilet in Joel Osteens Lakewood Church when he found an undisclosed amount of money in the wall. The plumber also said he notified an employee at the church, who contacted the authorities. I was like, ‘Oh wow,’” the plumber said on the Houston radio program, as first reported by Click2Houston.

10 at the Houston megachurch, on the morning show of 100.3 The Bull, a. It has 368 full-time and part-time staff. A plumber found cash, checks, and money orders in a bathroom wall of the Houston church of celebrity pastor Joel OsteenJoel OsteenJoel Osteen is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church with his wife, Victoria, who serves as co-pastor. The plumber detailed the bizarre discovery, made on Nov. Sierra Juarez is a fact-checker at Texas Monthly - Wikipedia.

#Plumber finds money in church wall full#

“I went to go remove the toilet and I moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall. Envelopes full of cash and checks were found behind a loose toilet by a plumber doing repairs at celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas, according to a church representative. The plumber made the claim Thursday morning during a call-in to a Houston radio show, saying he found the envelopes around a month back while working in a bathroom. Investigators believe the find may have something to do with a 2014 theft at the megachurch, police confirmed. (NEXSTAR) - A plumber in Houston claims to have found about 500 envelopes full of cash and checks inside a wall at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. The Lakewood church is the regular location of services performed by 58-year-old American pastor and televangelist Joel Osteen in Houston. Went to go remove the toilet, and I moved some insulation away, and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall and I was likeoh wow. A plumber has revealed how he found a wad of cash behind a loose toilet at preacher Joel Osteen’s mega-church in Texas. Previously, 600,000 were stolen from a safe at Lakewood Church in 2014. There was a loose toilet in the wall and we removed the tile, the plumber said. HOUSTON (KETK) A plumber said he found a large sum of money in a wall while making repairs at the Lakewood mega church in Houston.

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Houston’s local news station, KPRC, posted audio from an anonymous caller who said he did some work for Lakewood Church. Police never made an arrest in the case, and a $25,000 award offered by Crime Stoppers for information revealing the culprits' remains unclaimed.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. While the amount of money found remains unknown, the discovery comes seven years after $600,000 in cash and checks were reported as having been stolen from a safe in the church in March 2014. A plumber called Houston, Texas radio station The Bull with a story that some say sounds like a mystery novel. Houston police said the money is in connection to a 2014 robbery at the church, where 200,000 in cash and 400,000 in. 'Lakewood immediately notified the Houston Police Department and is assisting them with their investigation.' Plumber Finds Cache Of Money Behind Loose Toilet In Wall At Joel Osteens Lakewood Mega-Church. The plumber found the cash in a wall of the church in about 500 envelopes. 'Recently, while repair work was being done at Lakewood Church, an undisclosed amount of cash and checks were found,' the statement said. 'We went to go remove the toilet and I moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall and I was like 'Oh, wow,'' the man said. 'I went ahead and contacted the maintenance supervisor that was there and I went ahead and turned it all in,' the man told KPRC2.Ī Lakewood Church representative confirmed the discovery Thursday, stating that an amount of money had been discovered on the church premises and the authorities had since been contacted.