Source: Daily News
November 5, 2016
A crook was not seeking salvation when he went into a Brooklyn cathedral and walked out with cash and a four-foot tall gold scepter, police said Saturday.
The unidentified man feebly tried to conceal the ornamental staff in his knee-length beige jacket as he coolly fled Saint John the Forerunner Orthodox Cathedral on Voorhies Ave. in Sheepshead Bay around 2 p.m. on Thursday, police said.
A surveillance camera captured the man holding the unwieldy holy item, which is adorned with a crucifix, as he left the Russian Orthodox house of worship.
The 30 to 45-year-old suspect, described by cops as having black hair and a “medium complexion,” also made off with $30 dollars in cash and bizarrely a crocheted religious picture, police said.
