Smash-And-Grab Burglary At Woodbridge Jewelry Store

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Four suspects robbed an Indian jewelry store in Woodbridge Saturday night, according to Woodbridge Police.

9Lakha Jewelers on Oak Tree Road, in Woodbridge's Iselin section, was burglarized of nearly all its inventory.

This happened at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, said police. The store was open at the time and the co-owner, a man, was inside with a customer.

The suspects arrived in a silver SUV; someone driving by took cell phone video of the SUV parking outside the store and the four men dashing inside. Perth Amboy Local Scoop posted the video: facebook.com/watch/?v=1017956067749385

Four men dressed all in black and wearing black face masks came inside. They smashed numerous display cases with sledgehammers and took approximately one million dollars in jewelry.

The entire burglary lasted less than a minute, according to the store owners. They made off with nearly the store's entire inventory.

The owner and the customer ran into a back room for safety, and were not harmed, News 12 reported.

Other Indian jewelry stores on Oak Tree Road in Iselin have been burglarized in the past two years:

In June 2025, Virani Jewelers was burglarized in a very similar smash-and-grab robbery. The suspects, again four men, broke in at 12:40 p.m. on a Saturday, smashed jewelry cases and grabbed jewelry, which they dumped into plastic bags, and then ran off. They sped off in a black SUV, which was driven by a fifth man. No arrests were ever made in that burglary. That story: Middlesex County Jewelry Store Robbed In Broad Daylight Saturday (June 2025)

That same store, Virani, was robbed at gunpoint three years earlier, in 2022. Men entered, showed a gun and ordered store employees to lie down on the ground as they ransacked the store. That story: 2022 Woodbridge Jewelry Store Burglary Linked To D.C. Crime Ring