Dash Cam Video Shows Robbery Suspect Swallowing $770,000 Worth Of Diamonds
I guess he was thinking that he could poop them all out, and they’d still be perfectly fine? I don’t know how digestion works with diamonds (would they be sharp enough to slice open your intestines?), but maybe he was right. Who knows. Times are tough for everyone out there. News on the Florida man who stole $770,000 in diamonds from Tiffany’s via The Smoking Gun:
Jaythan Gilder, driving a rented Mitsubishi Outlander, was pulled over by troopers who had received a “be on the lookout” alert from Orlando cops investigating the robbery earlier that day of a Tiffany & Co. store in The Mall of Millenia.
Gilder, whose rap sheet contains a litany of jewelry robberies, was suspected of posing as a representative of an NBA player interested in purchasing diamonds. After being shown to a private room, the man grabbed two sets of diamond earrings (worth $609,500 and $160,000) and bolted from the store. After being pulled from his vehicle and handcuffed, Gilder was being walked to a squad car when a trooper noticed that the detainee “was talking with a closed mouth and was moving an object around…using his tongue.”
[TSG]
There are more details at the link, but long story short, he completely swallowed the diamonds before being arrested and hospitalized, and he eventually pooped out the diamonds (which were fully intact!) about two weeks later. TSG says the diamonds were cleaned and inspected and are presumably back on the market for sale. I wonder if Tiffany’s would have to disclose where the diamonds had been? The video:
