ORLANDO — Detectives have recovered four diamond earrings two weeks after a man gulped down the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000 during his arrest on the side of a Panhandle highway, authorities said Friday.

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.

A man pretending to represent a professional basketball player allegedly swallowed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stolen Tiffany jewelry, according to court documents.