Estimated $500K in jewelry stolen during Bogota smash-and-grab robbery

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Sep 5, 2026
First tonight, an estimated half a million dollars in jewelry stolen in a smash and grab heist in Bogota.
This is the video. News 12 New Jersey's Christine Qualey tells us how a husband and wife team lost everything within seconds.
We just hear an explosion. That explosion that Jennifer Jimenez heard was a team of people breaking into her and her husband's store,
JJB Gold Jewelry, Wednesday afternoon around 2 p.m.
When I opened my eyes, they were inside and all the glasses was on the floor and then I start to grab everything.
I did press the panic button as soon as I could realize what's happening.
Jimenez was in the store that day with not just clients, but her mother and one month old daughter in the back office.
I only was thinking on my baby. It's my first baby.
So what's difficult to me?
Just imagine that they can go in the back and hurt her.
Surveillance footage shows a team of four people getting dropped off at the end of West Fortley Road.
One person can be seen smashing this front door here with a sledgehammer, while three others dressed in hoodies and face coverings followed behind,
all in and out within a matter of seconds.
According to Jimenez, they got away with an estimated $500,000 in product.
If the police goes by like less than a minute, they were here basically less than two minutes, but they was inside less than a minute.
Footage also shows the alleged robbers running back out to the same car that dropped them off, which then speeds away.
By that time, some neighbors had started to notice the commotion.
When I drop everything and I get up the office, I see a Acura, a great Acura, and it took off.
One of my customers took the license plate and then he ride it on the window of one of the cars.
While News 12 has not confirmed whether the two incidents are related, a very similar jewelry heist happened just a few weeks ago in Woodbridge.
Jimenez says she thinks it could be the same team.
They always get away with what they're doing and never catch them.
In Bogota, Christine Quigley, News 12 New Jersey.
