Robbers who apparently targeted traveling Israeli jewelry salesmen stole two bags of diamonds, police said. Police Sgt. Paco Balderrama said the diamond dealers, 47-year-old Daniel Amnon Singer and his father, 73-year-old Aron Chaim Singer of Tel Aviv, told police they were at a southwest Oklahoma City convenience store on Wednesday afternoon when the robbery occurred.

Balderrama said the Singers told police that two bags of diamonds were stolen. They said that when they stopped at the store, one went inside to pay for gas while the other remained in the car.

A green or silver Toyota sedan containing three men wearing hoods and overcoats pulled alongside. The men exited their vehicle, and two of them broke out the back windows of the Singers’ vehicle and took the suitcases full of diamonds.

The robbers’ car had an Oklahoma license tag and was last seen on Interstate 35.

Balderrama wouldn’t say how much the stolen diamonds might be worth, calling it only “a large sum.” The suitcases only contained “loose diamonds,” he said.

Balderrama said it was the first time he could recall such a robbery in Oklahoma City. “I don’t think it was a random robbery,” he said.

He said that police are examining a surveillance tape taken outside the Norman jewelry store but are not releasing it to the public yet.

(Source: Associated Press)