'Bling Bishop' Robber Nets Prison Sentence For Flashy Mid-Sermon Heist

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn man who robbed "Bling Bishop" Lamor Whitehead at gunpoint during a live-streamed sermon will spend the next seven years in prison.

Say-Quan Pollack, 25, was charged in connection with the brazen, on-camera robbery at Whitehead's Canarsie church in 2022, according to police and the U.S. Attorney's office in the Eastern District of New York.

Pollack had previously pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court, but he was just one of three New Yorkers involved in the $1 million theft, police said.

"Pollack has been held accountable for committing a bold robbery in a house of worship with a gun, terrorizing the men, women and children participating in the religious service that Sunday morning," said United States Attorney Breon Peace.

Prosecutors say Pollack, Juwan Anderson, 23, and Shamar Leggette, 41, barged into the Remsen Avenue church in July 2022. Armed with guns, they demanded property from Whitehead and his wife.

The three men fled with about $400,000 in stolen goods — and the whole robbery was caught on livestream, police said.

"You guys have no idea the trauma that happened to my family and we're still going through it — and the trauma of my church," Whitehead said. "I'm 10 toes down, ya'll, I'm pushing forward."

As part of his sentence, Pollack was also ordered to pay $402,639 in restitution to the victims.

"For those victims who were traumatized by this violent crime carried out in a setting where they had gone to pray and worship, it is my hope that they find some closure in the prosecution of the defendants," Peace said.

Whitehead had previously made headlines for his attempts to help Mayor Eric Adams with a failed crime-busting effort when Whitehead tried to get a subway slasher to turn himself in to the mayor and police.

However, the scheme failed when the NYPD became impatient and made the arrest themselves.

The attempted negotiation and its arguably botched outcome apparently didn’t end the connection between Adams and Whitehead, who has described himself as a mentee of the mayor and unsuccessfully ran for Brooklyn Borough President.

Earlier this summer, Whitehead was also sentenced to nine years in prison for fraud, extortion and other crimes. During the trial, prosecutors revealed that he had swindled $90,000 from an elderly mother in his congregation, which he used to buy luxury items.