I’m suprised that it took two weeks to pass all of them. Seems like a really long time to stick around that neighborhood.
When officers caught up with him later that day, they saw Mr Gilder “swallowing several objects believed to be the stolen earrings,” police said.
Officials transporting Mr Gilder to jail allegedly heard him say, “I should have thrown them out the window,” CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, reported.
At the jail, Mr Gilder allegedly asked staff, “Am I going to be charged with what’s in my stomach?”
Just for the record, down near the bottom of the article, it mentioned 48 other counts here in Colorado. Another article:
In addition to the Florida charges, Gilder has a history of theft in a similar robbery in 2022 at a Tiffany & Co. store in The Woodlands, Texas, according to criminal records.
Gilder is also facing 48 charges in Colorado, some of which stem from a 2022 theft of local jewelry store Legacy & Co. off East Fillmore Street where Gilder stole up to $1 million, according to Colorado Springs police.
Something tells me that he’s going to be passed along from state jail to state jail to serve out his various sentences.
Who will buy? Anyone who doesn’t know. Run it through an ultrasonic cleaner a time or two and it’ll be identical to new.
Even when the USA was sane, what legal force could possibly require such a disclosure?
I could almost see them selling at a premium. People able to pay that kind of money for jewelry really admire exclusivity above almost all else. “I have the one and only; nobody else has the same” is a real powerful lure. The infamous pooped diamonds just might get a certain cachet from their adventures.
Now he’s passin’ the STONE!