ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A suspected thief gulped down two pairs of diamond earrings during his arrest on the side of a Florida Panhandle highway last week, detectives say, leaving them with the unenviable task of waiting to “collect” the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000.

Jaythan Gilder, 32, is accused of posing as a representative of an Orlando Magic player before he swiped two pairs of earrings worth $769,500 from a Tiffany & Co. in Orlando, police said.

Florida police have to wait for the “foreign objects” to pass through Jaythan Gilder’s digestive system before confirming they are the stolen earrings, officials said.

Jaythan Gilder allegedly swallowed two pairs of Tiffany & Co. diamond earrings worth $769,500 after stealing the jewelry from a store in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 26, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers reported arresting a Texas man wanted in Orlando after he swallowed four stolen diamonds valued at nearly $770,000.

A man was arrested after possibly swallowing over $1 million in jewelry he stole from an Orlando mall, according to police records. According to an arrest affidavit, Jaythan Lawrence Gilder, 32,

A man accused of stealing nearly $770,000 worth of jewelry from Tiffany & Co. at the Mall at Millenia has been arrested, according to the Orlando Police Department.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A man is accused of stealing $769,500 worth of earrings from an Orlando jewelry store, before swallowing them when he was taken into custody, police said.

A man pretending to represent a professional basketball player allegedly swallowed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stolen Tiffany jewelry, according to court documents.

Police made an unconventional discovery of nearly $1 million worth of stolen diamond Tiffany & Co. inside of a man's stomach.

Gilder was stopped by the Orlando Police Department on Interstate 10 and charged ... was charged with robbing another Tiffany & Co. in Texas in 2022, according to that report.

The Orlando Police Department (OPD) said 32-year-old Jaythan ... Detectives identified the vehicle and said it was heading toward Texas, police said. It never left Florida. Florida Highway Patrol ...