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DETROIT (WJBK) - Be sure your sins will find you out.
A man was caught red-handed breaking into and stealing from the storehouses inside Rhema International Church on Kelly Road just south of Eight Mile.
It happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday as the guy broke in through a window.
"My wife found a screwdriver sitting on her floor and one of the safes in her office was open," said Bishop Eric Lloyd. "So we knew something was wrong."
Lloyd says the man tried to get into several rooms inside the building but hit pay dirt when he went inside an office and found a safe holding about $4,000.
"He pried the lock open broke into the safe, took the money and I guess he was so excited about getting the money that he dropped his screwdriver," Lloyd said.
He used that screwdriver to pry open doors inside the building. Lloyd says the man also stole a camera the church uses to film worship services.
"He probably got away with about $6,500 worth of stuff," he said.
And it could have been more.
"The average person wouldn't even know that this is back here because the door is blocking it," Lloyd said. "If you notice in the video he came right back here and started digging through this. So he had to be familiar with the layout."
Lloyd showed the surveillance footage to the security team at Home Depot across the street from the church building--which said it saw the man before. Detroit police are aware of the break-in.
Lloyd says he and his congregation won't let it get them down.
"We don't have hate, we have love," Lloyd said. "We're praying for the gentleman that broke in the church and we pray that justice be served."
The pastor here says they bought this building from another congregation about a year ago and shared the footage with the previous owners. They too are now investigating if any of their congregants recognize the man.