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

Police in Florida say a Houston man tried something unusual in the attempt to prove he didn't steal jewelry from Tiffany & Co.: he ate it. Of course, that's not the end of the story. Jaythan Lawrence Gilder,

The police in Orlando, Fla., said that a suspect spent time in a hospital while they waited for the stolen jewels to be “expelled from his system.”