UNION CITY — A convenience store at 43rd Street and Park Avenue in Union City was burglarized at around 4:30 Tuesday morning. Dania Firas, who has owned the store for almost a year, said that when she came in to work at around 6:30 a.m. she found the side entrance’s glass door had been smashed open.
Firas called the police and they arrived around 10 minutes later. She, her husband Firas Siddiqui, and their young son waited for them to arrive before she went in.
“I was afraid the robber might still be inside,” she said.
When she and the police entered the business, they found that the cash register and all of the lottery money – around $200 in total – had been taken from the premises.
“Forensic evidence was recovered that may lead us to a possible suspect,” acting Union City Police Chief Brian Barrett told the Reporter on Thursday. —Gennarose Pope
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