Halal grocery windows smashed on Christmas Eve in Portland
Source: Bangor Daily News
PORTLAND, Maine — Police are searching for a man suspected of smashing the windows of a local halal grocery with a baseball bat on Christmas Eve.
Around 11 p.m. last Saturday a witness reported that a youthful-looking white male wearing a hooded sweatshirt had broken six large plate windows at the Ahram Halal Market on Forest Avenue, according to a police spokesman. There was no evidence of a break-in, said Lt. Robert Martin, and the destruction is being investigated as aggravated criminal mischief, a felony.
Martin said a detective is searching for surveillance video from nearby businesses with the hope of identifying the suspect, who was gone by the time police arrived at the scene last week. Police do not yet have any insight into what motivated the destruction, which Martin valued at “several thousand dollars.”
In October, the grocery store became the object of ire following reports that the FBI was investigating the owner in connection with suspected welfare fraud. Investigators claim that Ali Daham used the business to convert food stamps to cash in a scheme that that may have cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
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