Four diamond earrings have been retrieved from a suspected thief. This comes two weeks after he ingested over $770,000 in Tiffany & Co. jewelry during his arrest on the side of a Florida Panhandle highway.
According to authorities, the serial numbers of the jewelry that was taken from the Tiffany store last month matched those of the four recovered stolen earrings.
The last of the four earrings taken from the Tiffany store in Orlando was recently collected from the suspect, per the Orlando Police Department, as reported by the Associated Press.
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Two days earlier, three of the earrings were discovered, along with two other unidentified diamond earrings.
According to police, the suspect was transported from jail to a hospital while detectives gathered evidence.
Once the jewelry was found, the Texas man was brought to the Orange County Jail, where he is being charged with first-degree grand theft and robbery with a mask.
During the robbery, the suspect allegedly informed Tiffany sales workers he wanted to buy diamond earrings and a diamond ring on behalf of an Orlando Magic basketball star. Sales personnel led the man to a VIP room where he could see the jewelry.
Shortly after, he jumped out of his chair, seized the jewels, and attempted to force his way out the door.
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Detectives got the suspect’s car’s license plate from shopping mall surveillance footage and assumed he was returning to Texas.
The Orlando police report stated that state troopers followed the vehicle from tag readers on the Florida Turnpike and Interstate 10 until he was stopped for driving without rear lights in Washington County, which is nearly 340 miles (550 kilometers) away.
According to the arrest report, a state trooper overheard the suspect say, “I should have thrown them out the window,” and asked personnel at the Washington County jail, “Am I going to be charged with what is in my stomach?”
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