Shamar Leggette, 41, has been connected to the July 24 armed robbery at Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries on Remsen Avenue in Canarsie, police said Tuesday night, as they released his mu…
of flashy Brooklyn Brooklyn bishop Lamor Whitehead during a live-streamed church service nearly a year ago.
Investigators were able to link him to the high-profile heist after reviewing video from the area, police sources said. , Juwan Anderson, and Say-Quan Pollack, both 23, were picked up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in September and hit with federal robbery charges for the stick-up.Two suspects have already been arrested in connection to the high-end heist.Footage of the heist showed Whitehead hitting the floor after the thieves stormed the church in the middle of the infamous pastor’s sermon.
Anderson and Pollack were charged under the US Hobbs Act, which criminalizes robbery and extortion which interferes with interstate commerce — in this case, because some out-of-state donations were used to purchase the stolen items, sources said.
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