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.”

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Detectives have recovered four diamond earrings from a suspected thief two weeks after he gulped the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000 during his arrest on the side of a highway in the Florida Panhandle, authorities said Friday.

The Orlando Police Department said the last of the four earrings stolen from the Tiffany at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando was recovered earlier this month from Jaythan Lawrence Gilder, 32, of Houston,