{"id":9649,"date":"2024-03-29T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:39:19","slug":"thieves-pull-off-shocking-1m-jewelry-heist-in-toms-river-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2024\/03\/thieves-pull-off-shocking-1m-jewelry-heist-in-toms-river-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Pull Off Shocking $1M Jewelry Heist in Toms River Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9661\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Jewelry (Credit: Bella Ella Boutique\/ Flickr CC\/\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Jewelry (Credit: Bella Ella Boutique\/ Flickr CC\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9661\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9661\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jewelry (Credit: <a href=&quot;www.bellaellaboutique.com&quot;>Bella Ella Boutique\/ Flickr CC\/  <\/a>\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewelry (Credit:<br \/><a href=\"www.bellaellaboutique.com\">Bella Ella Boutique\/ Flickr CC\/ <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Hollywood-style plot to steal about $1 million in jewels \u2013 despite being locked in a safe \u2013 from a Toms River store played out overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, when thieves pulled off a multi-step break-in and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toms River Police Lt. Gene Bachonski, sometime between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday, an unknown suspect or suspects entered Venzio Jewelers, located in the Ocean County Mall, and stole the merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the perpetrators entered the rear office area of the store by cutting a hole in the wall of an adjacent empty store. The suspects then cut the phone and alarm cables, and apparently used a torch to enter a large safe and remove approximately $1 million worth of jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was processed by the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department C.S.I. Division and is under investigation by Toms River detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the crime is asked to contact Detective Michael MacDonald at 732-349-0150, ext. 1366 or Detective Jennifer Grob at 732-349-0150, ext. 1319.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2024\/03\/thieves-pull-off-shocking-1m-jewelry-heist-in-toms-river-overnight\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hollywood-style plot to steal about $1 million in jewels \u2013 despite being locked in a safe \u2013 from a Toms River store played out overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, when thieves pulled off a multi-step break-in and robbery. According to Toms River Police Lt. Gene Bachonski, sometime between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[700,1080,1939,394,11],"class_list":["post-9649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-commercial-burglary","tag-featured","tag-jewelry-heist","tag-ocean-county-mall","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22706100257_155801e960_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}