Armed robber steals $30,000 and passport, from New Jersey Halal meat shop

Police are hunting a fishy who robbed a New Jersey butchery and marketplace of $30,000.

The robbery happened Sept. 21 astatine Paradise Halal Meat successful Paterson, with surveillance video obtained Saturday by News 12 New Jersey showing a masked antheral bursting into an bureau successful the backmost of the business, which is some a butchery and a marketplace, and past pointing a weapon astatine storeowner Abdelgawad Elsayed.

“Hurry up, springiness maine everything, the fishy shouts. “Put everything successful the bag.”

Elsayed rapidly complies and hands implicit each the currency — immoderate $30,000 — from a drawer, video shows.

At different point, the robber tin beryllium seen holding up the telephone and showing Elsayed a photograph of a pistillate helium seemingly knows.

“Give maine the paper,” the antheral adds, referring to documents, including passports and Social Security numbers.

Elsayed again complies.

The storeowner’s son, Mohammed Elsayed, told News 12 his begetter was “terrified” and near traumatized by the encounter.

“He hasn’t been coming to the store since that happened,” Mohammed said. “It’s benignant of hard to person idiosyncratic constituent a weapon astatine you,”

Mohammed besides explained wherefore determination was truthful overmuch currency astatine the store.

“We bargain each week, betwixt $30,000 and $40,000 worthy of nutrient from the auction,” helium told the quality station.

Patterson instrumentality enforcement authorities are asking anyone with accusation astir the lawsuit to interaction police. No different details were provided.