Two men were arrested Wednesday for the robbery of a flashy Brooklyn pastor who was delivering a sermon in July about keeping faith when gun-toting masked men crashed the service and stole over $1 million in jewelry from the pastor and his wife
"I’m glad you were there to see the heat, and to see the viciousness that he had in his eyes for me, and he stared me down to try to intimidate me, but I’m not going to be intimidated," the pastor said.
At a news conference, James Essig, chief of detectives for the New York Police Department, said police detectives from the Brooklyn robbery squad and federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used video and electronic tracking methods to help solve the crime. If convicted of charges including robbery conspiracy and robbery, the men could face up to life in prison.
At the time of the robbery, Whitehead's sermon was being livestreamed online. Moments before the robbers entered the scene, Whitehead could be heard asking parishioners:"How many of you have lost faith because you saw somebody else die?"