News of the find became public on Thursday when a man who identified himself as the plumber called into Houston radio station 100.3 The Bull and shared the story with the Morning Bullpen show. “Lakewood immediately notified the Houston Police Department and is assisting them with their investigation.” “Recently, while repair work was being done at Lakewood Church, an undisclosed amount of cash and checks were found,” the statement said. Lakewood Church confirmed the discovery in a statement provided to CNN, but it did not provide additional information because the investigation is still active. Police said the investigation is ongoing. The money came from contributions given on March 8 and 9 of 2014.īurglary and theft officers inventoried and documented the recovered money and left it in the custody of the church, because it was property found on its premises, the statement said. Police said that evidence from the recovered checks suggests that the envelopes are connected to the March 9, 2014, theft of undisclosed amounts of money from the church.ĬNN reported at the time that about $600,000 – $200,000 in cash and $400,000 in checks – was taken from a church safe. A plumber doing work at Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, discovered hundreds of envelopes containing checks and cash hidden in a wall behind a toilet.
PLUMBER FINDS MONEY IN CHURCH WALL DRIVER
The money was full insured, so I suspect the church may now have to reimburse the insurance company.FedEx driver dumped packages at least 6 times into Alabama ravine, sheriff says Update: The New York Timesreports that the money found was in fact the pilfered donations from 2014. Not exactly the same as a ring buried in the mud, but close enough for the common law.
And the envelopes of cash were quite literally buried inside of a wall. Taking any actions beyond the scope of that permission would have been a trespass.
I think the church was the owner of the "locus in quo." The plumber was a licensee, who could only enter the property for a specific purpose, approved by the church. It made no difference that the Water Company was unaware of the rings. possession of everything which is attached to or under that land." In this case, the "rings embedded in the mud of the pool" were "attached to or under that land." Thus, the rings belonged to the owner of the land, the Water Company. Therefore, Lord Russell reasoned, the Water Company had "the right to forbid anybody coming on their land or in any way interfering with it." Lord Russell held that the Water Company had "control" of "whatever might be in the pool." Specifically, "the possession of land carries with it. " That is, South Staffordshire owned the pool. The Water Company was "the freeholder of the locus in quo. Lord Russell wrote the opinion for the Queen's Bench. The company sued Sharman to recover the rings. Sharman found two rings buried in the mud at the bottom of the pool. The Water Company hired Sharman to clean out a muddy pool of water. Here, a relevant precedent is South Staffordshire Water Co. But could the plumber have kept the money, citing the doctrine of finders keepers? I think the answer is no. This plumber was a good person, and handed the money to the church. "I went ahead and contacted the maintenance supervisor that was there, and I turned it all in," he added. The caller said the envelopes were full of cash and checks. "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!'" "There was a loose toilet in the wall, and we removed the tile," the caller said. Lindsey was shocked when he listened to viewers Thursday morning, but says this one caller really took the segment over the edge. "The things he was telling us that they found in the walls." "It was just unbelievable!" Morning Show Host for the Morning Bullpen George Lindsey said. The news came to light during the radio morning show at 100.3 The Bull. Now, a plumber discovered nearly $600,000 that was buried in a bathroom wall at the church!Ī plumber says he found money in a wall while he was doing work at the church on Nov. To date, that crime has remained unsolved. In 2014, thieves stole nearly $600,000 from the church. The plumber who turned in hundreds of envelopes of cash and checks he found in a wall at televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church is getting 20,000 for his good deed.
Joel Osteen's ministry is housed in the former arena for the Houston Rockets. Lakewood Church in Houston is a huge megachurch.
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