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Breakfast of Tiffany’s.

A recently released video captures the moment police officers struggled to prevent a Florida jewel thief from swallowing almost $770,000 worth of Tiffany earrings that he had allegedly stolen during a failed strong-arm robbery.

Officers from the Florida Highway Patrol were depicted pulling over Jaythan Lawrence Gilder and attempting to search inside his mouth as he was taken out of his vehicle, as shown in the footage obtained by The Smoking Gun.

Glider, 32, began thrashing around as three astonished officers wrestled him to the ground and demanded he “open his mouth,” according to the clip.

After being alerted about a robbery at the Tiffany & Co. store in The Mall of Millenia, a trooper stopped Glider. The trooper then observed that he “was speaking with a closed mouth and manipulating an object… using his tongue,” according to an arrest warrant obtained by the publication.

“You’re about to get tased,” one trooper yelled as officers continued to try to get him to release the contents of his mouth.

“I don’t have to,” Glider replied through gritted teeth.

Gilder allegedly pretended to be a representative for an Orlando Magic player to gain access to pricey jewelry at a Tiffany & Co. store in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 26, WFLA reported.

Video from inside the store captured him in a VIP room of the store, where he allegedly told staff that his name was Shawn and he was negotiating a sale for an Orlando Magic basketball team player, according to footage released by the Orlando Police Department.

The accused thief then ran out of the store with two sets of earrings — one 4.86-carat set worth $160,000 and another 8.10-carat set worth $609,500, cops said.

Gilder was stopped by the Orlando Police Department on Interstate 10 and charged with resisting arrest — but not theft, because the stolen earrings couldn’t be found.

But while in jail, Gilder “spontaneously” asked staff if he was going to be charged “with what’s in my stomach,” the arrest report reviewed by WFLA read.

A trooper in the Orange County jail reportedly overheard Gilder say, “I should have thrown them out the window.”

Gilder then underwent a body scan where detectives were able to spot foreign objects working their way through his digestive tract.

He was watched by detectives at an area hospital for “more than a dozen days” before the earrings were expelled from his system, according to cops.

The items were then cleaned by “Tiffany’s Master Jeweler” and eventually turned over to a company security manager, according to a police report. 

Gilder has 48 outstanding warrants in Colorado and was charged with robbing another Tiffany & Co. in Texas in 2022, according to that report.

He was charged with first-degree grand theft and robbery with a mask.

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