Orlando, Florida (AP) – The detectives have recovered four diamond earrings from an alleged thief two weeks after swallowing the Tiffany & Co. jewelry of almost $ 770,000 during his arrest alongside a highway at Florida Panhandle, authorities announced on Friday.
The last of the four earrings stolen in the Tiffany store in Orlando was recovered from the suspect last week, the Orlando police department announced on Friday.
Three of the earrings were recovered two days before that, as well as two other unidentified diamond earrings. The suspect was transferred from a prison to a hospital while the detectives waited to recover the evidence, police said in a statement.
The four stolen earrings corresponded to the serial numbers of jewelry from the Tiffany store last month, detectives said.
After the retirement of jewelry, the man in Texas was taken to Orange County prison where he faces the flight accusations with a mask and a first degree flight.
During the flight, the man would have told Tiffany sales partners that he was interested in buying diamond earrings and a diamond ring in the name of an Orlando Magic basketball player. Sales escorted the man in a VIP room where he could see the jewelry. Shortly after, he jumped from his chair, caught the jewelry and tried to make his way out of the door.
The detectives obtained the license plate of the suspect's car thanks to security images of the shopping center and believe that he returned to Texas. The state soldiers followed the car of the readers of Tag on the Florida Turnpike and the Interstate 10 until it was stopped for driving without rear lights in the county of Washington, nearly 340 miles (550 kilometers), said the Orlando police report.
In the team's car, a state soldier heard the suspect say: “I should have thrown them out the window” and in Washington County prison, he asked the staff: “Am I accused of what is in my stomach?” According to the arrest report.
