Man who found money in Osteen's church gets huge reward

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FILE - Flags alert successful beforehand of the Lakewood Church June 28, 2005 successful Houston. Authorities are investigating whether currency and checks discovered during repair enactment being done astatine Pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch is connected to $600,000 that was stolen from a religion harmless much than 7 years ago. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan File)

Posted at 8:25 PM, Dec 07, 2021

and past updated 2021-12-07 21:25:59-05

The plumber who recovered currency and checks successful the partition of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church reportedly received $20,000 from Crimestoppers.

ABC7 reports that the plumber, who is lone known arsenic "Justin," was declared a "Good Samaritan" by Crimestoppers and fixed the reward.

He recovered the wealth portion doing repair enactment astatine the Houston church.

The find came 7 years aft the religion reported that $600,000 successful currency and checks were stolen from a safe.

Police were investigating whether the wealth recovered successful the partition was connected to the wealth that was stolen.

According to ABC7, the stolen funds were afloat insured. KHOU reports that immoderate of that wealth has since been paid backmost to the security company.