identified himself as a plumber who worked inside osteen s lakewood church, the station, 100.3 asked callers to chime in. there was a loose toilet in the wall, and we removed the tile or they removed the tile, and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall. envelopes full of cash, checks, and money orders. i went ahead and contacted the maintenance supervisor that was there and i went ahead and turned it all in. reporter: the church confirmed the find in a statement writing, an undloesed amount of cash and checks were found, adding they notified police but lakewood has no further comment at this time. houston police wouldn t share how much was recovered, but did state friday evidence from the recovered checks suggest this november case is connected to a march 9th, 2014, theft report of undisclosed amounts of money at the church. that money disappeared from a
identified himself as a plumber who recently worked inside osteen s lakewood church. the station asked callers to chime in about interesting discoveries. there was a loose toilet in the wall, and we removed the tile. they removed the tile. went to go remove the toilet, and i moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall. reporter: envelopes full of cash, checks, and money orders. i went ahead and contacted the maintenance supervisor that was there, and i went ahead and turned it all in. reporter: the church confirmed the find in a statement, writing, an undisclosed amount of cash and checks were found. adding they notified police but lakewood has no further comment at this time. houston police wouldn t share how much was recovered, but did state friday, evidence from the recovered checks suggest this november case is connected to a march 9, 2014, theft report of undisclosed amounts of money at the church. that money disappeared from a