A gunman who burglarized the home of a Brooklyn bishop and was caught after being featured on “America’s Most Wanted” was convicted yesterday.
In 2010, Sadiq Abdul-Wahhab, 48, broke into a clergyman’s home wearing a hockey mask, and left behind his DNA when he fled, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Investigators matched Abdul-Wahhab’s DNA to samples taken from a Yankee cap. knocked off his head when he attacked a married Nassau County couple at gunpoint in their driveway in 2009 and made off with the husband’s $9,000 bracelet.
During that robbery Abdul-Wahhab and an accomplice hid in bushes outside the couple’s Valley Stream home and then jumped out and punched the husband after the couple drove into their driveway.
A few months after Abdul-Wahhab was featured on “America’s Most Wanted,” investigators received a tip that led US Marshals to arrest the violent thug in Brooklyn in December 2010.
Abdul-Wahhab is already serving 13 years behind bars for a Nassau County robbery.