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

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.

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.

Officers were captured on traffic cameras chasing the swan down on the busy highway. They had to close all the eastbound lanes until the bird was captured, WESH reported. Once the swan was captured, Orlando police said it was taken to the Lake Eola House for further evaluation.

Jaythan Gilder, 32, allegedly swiped two pairs of earrings worth $769,500 from a Tiffany & Co. in Orlando before taking the expensive gulp, police said.

Gilder was stopped by the Orlando Police Department on Interstate 10 and charged with resisting arrest — but they were initially unable to locate the stolen earrings and thus, charge him for the ...

A man was accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from a Tiffany & Co. store in Orlando and swallowing the evidence.

The Orlando Police Department says officers shot and killed a man while responding to a suspicious person call early Saturday morning. Officers were called to Faith Arts Village Orlando, an art studio complex on East Colonial Drive just after 2:30 a.

Kirk’s own white Lincoln Navigator had gone missing, and deputies said they later learned the person last seen driving it was the niece’s ex-boyfriend, who was also a former corrections deputy with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

A man armed with an AR-15-style rifle was shot and killed by Orlando Police officers after responding to a call about a suspicious person beating on a person’s door while armed with a gun,

after they are passed,” the department's arrest report ... and he was listed as being in police custody in Orange County Florida, which is home to Orlando, as of Wednesday morning.