Detectives recovered four diamond earrings from suspected burglarship two weeks after cheating on the Tiffany & Company gemstones during their arrests on the side of the Florida Panhandle highway, authorities said Friday.
The end of four earrings stolen from the Tiffany store in Orlando was recovered from the suspect last week, Orlando police said Friday.
The three earrings were collected two days before, along with two unidentified diamond earrings.
The suspect was transferred from prison to hospital, but detectives were waiting to gather evidence, officers said in a statement.
The stolen earrings for the four people matched the serial numbers of the gems they photographed from the Tiffany Store last month, detectives said.
After the jewels were recovered, the Texas man was taken to the Orange County Jail, where he faced charges of robbery with masks and first-degree grand larceny.
During the theft, the man allegedly told Tiffany Sales Associates he was interested in purchasing diamond earrings and diamond rings on behalf of the magical basketball player from Orlando.
Sales Associates escorted the man in a VIP room where you can see the gems.
After a while he jumped out of his chair, grabbed a jewel and tried to get out the door.
The detective gets the suspect's car license plate through security footage from the shopping mall and believes he is back in Texas.
According to an Orlando Police report, state troopers tracked the car from the Florida Turnpike and Interstate 10 tag leaders, before being stopped to drive in the rear county in Washington County.
In a squad car, a state officer heard the suspect say, “I should have thrown them out the window,” and at the Washington County Jail he asked staff, “Am I going to be charged with something in my stomach?” According to the arrest report.
