By Fallan Patterson
Staff Writer

The Kissimmee Police Department is searching for a black man who burglarized the Subway restaurant in the Kissimmee Square Plaza sometime between closing at 11 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday.

When manager Heather Doak arrived at 6 a.m. today to prepare the restaurant, located at 1321 E. Vine St., for opening she discovered the front door had been smashed.

Doak called police who searched the restaurant for suspects. No one was found.

Surveillance footage showed a black male wearing dark clothing break the glass of the front door and dive through the lower half of the door.

The suspect then dove over the counter, checked the cash register and pulled at the door of the safe before jumping back over the counter and exiting through the broken door.

Nothing was taken or disturbed in the restaurant, Doak said.

“It was a 30-second thing,” she said. “It was like in and out.”

The restaurant opened for business after employees removed the remainder of the glass from the door.

Doak said repairs had not begun as of 10:30 a.m., however she anticipates the repair to occur before dusk. She did not have a cost estimate on the damages.

The Subway is franchised by the Dipasqua family and has been open since August 2009.

Anyone with information about the suspect or the crime is asked to contact the Kissimmee Police Department’s Property Crimes Unit at 407-846-3333, by e-mail at seeitsayit@kissimmee.org or CRIMELINE at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).