Man on violent rampage breaks into Midtown steakhouse, hotel and 7-Eleven

A 36-year-old man faces serious charges after a camera caught him breaking into a steakhouse in Manhattan. He then continued his destructive rampage at a hotel and then a 7-Eleven.

On Valentine’s Day morning, the man suffered heartbreak after destroying a set of custom-made doors at Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse on 9th Avenue in Midtown. Now it is barricaded.

“I thought he did it, but it caused more damage than we expected,” said general manager Muhammed Yaseen.

Yaseen says there is tens of thousands of dollars in damage. Security cameras captured the suspect, identified as Jonathan Jones, breaking into the restaurant around 2:30 a.m. He used one of the barriers from the restaurant out front.

“He picked one up and used it as a weapon, and he was using it because it was metal parts,” Yaseen said.

Once inside, Yaseen says the man walked straight to the bar, grabbed a bottle of gin, took a swig from it and threw it, shattering a glass shelf.

“No one was hurt, thank God, that’s a good thing, no one was hurt,” adds Yaseen.

Jones then left and police said he headed toward 8th Avenue, just off 28th Street, to a hotel where he allegedly punched an employee in the face and grabbed a fire extinguisher.

He was then on the move again, entering a nearby 7 Eleven, discharging the fire extinguisher.

Staff at Uncle Jack’s say it took hours to clean up the mess on one of the busiest days of the year. They couldn’t handle all the reservations because of all this.

“It kind of distracted us from the real work we wanted to do: getting the kitchen ready, getting the staff ready,” Yaseen said.

Police arrested Jones, who faces several charges, including burglary and theft.

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