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.

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 — 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.