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.

A man in Orlando is accused of swallowing nearly $1 million in stolen diamond Tiffany jewelry before he was arrested, an arrest affidavit says. Officers from the Orlando Police Department on Feb. 26 responded to the Tiffany & Co.

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,