Bling Bishop's Accused Robbers Nabbed After BK Church Heist: NYPD

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Two men accused of robbing the "bling bishop" of about $1 million in jewelry during a live-streamed, mid-sermon heist at his Brooklyn church were arrested Wednesday, according to police, court records and the bishop.

“I’m just happy and thanking Jesus right now,” Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead told Patch Wednesday morning. “Jesus did it again for me.”

Juwan Anderson, 23, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Say-Quan Pollack, 23, of Bergen Beach were arrested in a joint operation by NYPD officers and ATF agents for their alleged participation in the July robbery, police said.

Both had arrest histories, with Pollack previously serving five years for a string of robberies, officials said at a press conference.

Police said a third identified man is being sought, but they have not released his name publicly.

Three masked men broke into the enter the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministry in Canarsie on July 24 about 11:15 a.m., according to police.

Video showed the robbers walking towards the stage and brandishing guns at Whitehead and his wife, who Whitehead and police said was holding the couple's infant child.

“They had a gun in my 8-month-old baby’s face,” Whitehead told the Daily News last summer the day after the robbery.

Police said the crooks made off with around $1 million in jewelry, though Whitehead has repeatedly disputed that amount.

NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a press conference announcing the arrests that no jewelry has been recovered.

Whitehead told Patch that officers called him at around 6 a.m. Wednesday morning to tell him the news.

“I’m excited,” Whitehead told Patch Wednesday morning, “my wife was crying when she heard the news.”

Whitehead went on to say the arrests cleared his name, after accusations on social media circulated all summer with speculation that the robbery was part of an alleged scam.

“The media painted me as a villain, not a victim,” Whitehead said.

Reporting over the summer showed that Whitehead is involved in a slew of active litigation, including accusations of fraud. Whitehead recently filed suits seeking $20 million in damages against social media influencers who accused him of being a scam artist.

Earlier in September, Whitehead was arrested and released after seemingly dragging a disruptive congregant out of the event space rented by his church.

Even more recently, a lender sued Whitehead over the non-payment of a $250,000 commercial loan Whitehead took for renovations to properties in Hartford, Connecticut, according to court documents.

Whitehead had a message to the alleged thieves, he told Patch.

“God is a forgiving God," the bishop said. "I forgive you. But now it's time for you to do your time.”