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.

Jaythan GIlder posed as an NBA agent in order to gain access to Tiffany & Co merchandise, which he allegedly swallowed while in custody.

After being pulled over by FL troopers, a TX man swallowed earrings worth $770K that he stole from Tiffany & Co. in Orlando, police said.

The man allegedly swallowed two pairs of earrings worth $769,500 (£597,000) hoping to avoid being charged with theft.

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

Medical scans taken shortly the man's arrest showed some of the three-quarters of a million dollars worth of jewelry inside his body.

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.

One Florida man is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from a Tiffany & Co. store in Orlando and swallowing the evidence. On Feb. 26, Jaythan Lawrence Gilder, 32, allegedly impersonated a representative working for an Orlando Magic basketball player in order to gain access to the pricey jewelry,

Wrong kind of carats. An amateur jewel thief swallowed Tiffany & Co. earrings worth $769,000 in a strong-arm heist gone wrong last week, according to Orlando police. Jaythan Lawrence Gilder, 32, pretended to be a representative for an Orlando Magic player to gain access to pricey jewelry at a Tiffany & Co.