Man accused of stealing earthquake donations from Texas mosque

FLOWER MOUND, Texas — Editor’s word: The video above is from a file on Feb. 14, 2023.

An arrest has been made after a mosque in Flower Mound was once burglarized and donations intended to visit Turkey and Syria earthquake sufferers had been stolen.

Flower Mound police stated on Tuesday that Muhammad Khan was once arrested by means of the Richardson Police Department on Saturday, Feb. 25. He had already been known because the suspect within the days following the Feb. 13 incident on the Islamic Association of Lewisville and Flower Mound (IALFM) mosque, however police hadn’t prior to now been ready to seek out him and make an arrest.

According to Flower Mound police, Richardson officials had been ready to find Khan and pull him over Saturday as a result of his arrest warrant was once hooked up to his registration number plate and automobile, which was once allegedly used within the crime.

The 36-year-old from Virginia was once charged with 3 prison counts of housebreaking of a construction. 

He was once booked into Denton County Jail.

Officials with the mosque advised WFAA an afternoon after the housebreaking that any person in a masks went within the construction and stole cash from steel lockboxes. The lockboxes contained donations for earthquake sufferers in Turkey and Syria.

IALFM President Abdul-Razaq Khazi-Syed confirmed WFAA the wear and tear left at the back of from the Feb. 13 housebreaking. 

He stated the mosque was once closed on the time however that the suspect entered thru an unlocked aspect door. Khazi-Syed stated the suspect then broke into the donation room by means of tearing a hollow into the door. The lockboxes had been then compelled open.

On Feb. 16, Flower Mound police decided thru surveillance pictures and video that Khan was once the suspect within the housebreaking.

Khan was once additionally the suspect in a robbery on the Islamic Society of Denton mosque in July 2021. Police stated Khan was once accused of taking cash from the donation house with out consent.

According to police, Khan advised detectives in that example that he wanted monetary help and took cash to go back house to Virginia. That case was once filed with the district lawyer’s administrative center.