ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — A person was accused of stealing lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} value of jewellery from a Tiffany & Co. retailer in Orlando and swallowing the proof.
On Feb. 26, Jaythan Lawrence Gilder, 32, impersonated an individual representing an Orlando Magic participant as a way to achieve entry to the dear jewellery, based on an arrest report from the Orlando Police Division.
Police mentioned Gilder pressured his method out of the shop with earrings totaling $769,500: a pair of 4.86 carat diamond earrings value $160,000 and a pair of 8.19 carat diamond earrings value $609,500. He was additionally accused of stealing a hoop value $587,000, which was later recovered.
Gilder’s automotive was stopped on Interstate 10 in Washington County, the place he was arrested on a cost of resisting, in addition to 48 excellent warrants out of Colorado. A physique scan carried out on the jail appeared to unravel the thriller of the lacking earrings; they had been noticed in his abdomen, based on the arrest report.
“These international objects are suspected to be the Tiffany & Co earrings taken within the theft however will must be collected by WCSO after they’re handed via Gilder’s system previous to confirming,” the arrest report acknowledged.
Gilder “spontaneously requested jail employees” if he was going to be “charged with what’s in my abdomen,” based on the arrest report, and the arresting trooper reported listening to him say, “I ought to have thrown them out the window.”
He was charged with first-degree grand theft and theft with a masks. A search of Gilder’s felony historical past revealed he was charged with robbing one other Tiffany & Co. retailer in Texas in 2022, police mentioned.
