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.

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

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.

After swallowing diamond earrings worth Rs 6.8 crore from Tiffany & Co, this Florida man outed himself by asking the authorities if he was going to jail for what was in his stomach.

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 local reports.

Police in Orlando, Florida, have arrested a man who allegedly attempted to steal $770,000 worth of diamonds by swallowing them. Jaythan Gilder, 32, was arrested Feb. 28 in connection with a robbery two days earlier at a Tiffany & Co.

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

A Florida jewelry thief swiped more than $700,000 in earrings last week and then swallowed the evidence hours before he was arrested for "what's in my stomach," officials said Wednesday.