ORLANDO, Fla. — 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.

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

He said he was a representative of an Orlando Magic basketball player before being taken to a VIP room and shown jewelry.

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.

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,

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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 Texas man is accused of forcibly stealing ... An X-ray of the suspect's torso showed what the Orlando Police Department believed to be the diamond earrings — a white mass shining brightly ...