{"id":318217,"date":"2026-08-10T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318217\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:52:14","slug":"video-shows-thieves-storm-new-jersey-jewelry-store-armed-with-sledgehammers-heres-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318217\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows thieves storm New Jersey jewelry store armed with sledgehammers. Here&#8217;s what happened next."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four suspects pulled off a brazen smash-and-grab robbery inside a Woodbridge, New Jersey, jewelry store over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they made off with more than $1 million worth of gold and diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video shows five robbers dressed in black getting out of a silver vehicle on Oak Tree Road, shortly before 8 p.m. on Saturday and storming into 9lakha Jewelers. Instead of guns, they brandished sledgehammers and smashed every display case in the store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just started banging both sides of the cabinets, and the moment was so scary,&#8221; co-owner Shushmita Chauhan said.<\/p>\n<p>One customer was inside at the time of the heist, but he or she ran out as the chaos erupted.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-caloway-image.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"6-caloway-image.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Four suspects made off with more than $1 million in gold and diamonds after robbing a jewelry store in Woodbridge, New Jersey, on Aug. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The store&#8217;s owners say the thieves were gone in less than a minute and made off with nearly all of the merchandise in the store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They start throwing stuff in those bags and they took everything and just ran out,&#8221; Sonu Chauhan said.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the suspects get back in the getaway car and speed off, just as a nearby private security guard arrives to confront them.<\/p>\n<p>Woodbridge police say they are actively investigating this case, but so far have made no arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The Chauhans only opened the store about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Shushmita Chauhan got emotional thinking about all their hard work that was shattered in just moments.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they have to reorder everything and update their security, but they said they plan to reopen this week and won&#8217;t be deterred by criminals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, this is my dream business, so I&#8217;ll probably try to pick this up again,&#8221; Sonu Chauhan said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four suspects pulled off a brazen smash-and-grab robbery inside a Woodbridge, New Jersey, jewelry store over the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1066,9,11,10,1690,120038],"class_list":["post-318217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-robbery","tag-woodbridge-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}