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 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, 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.

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.

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

Texas man’s desperate attempt to avoid arrest ends with a gut-wrenching decision to ingest earrings worth more than $700,000.

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.