ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – A man has been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from a Tiffany & Company Store in Orlando and engulfing evidence.
On February 26, 32-year-old Jason Lawrence Grider impersonated someone representing Orlando’s magical players to access expensive gems, according to an arrest report from the Orlando Police Department.
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Police said Glider got out of the store with earrings totaling $769,500. The pair of 4.86 carat diamond earrings are 8.19 carat diamond earrings worth $160,000 and $609,500. He was also accused of stealing a ring worth $587,000 and was later recovered.
Glider’s car was stopped on Interstate 10 in Washington County, where he was arrested on suspicion of resistance and 48 unpaid warrants from Colorado. Body scans carried out in prison appeared to solve the mystery of missing earrings. They were found in his stomach, according to arrest reports.
“These foreign objects are suspected to be Tiffany & Co earrings filmed in the robbery, but they must be collected by WCSO after passing through the Guilder system before confirming,” the arrest report states.
According to the arrest report, Glider “voluntarily asked prison staff if they would be charged with something in my stomach,” and the arrest trooper reported that he had heard he should have been “threwed out the window.”
He was accused of first-degree grand larceny and robbery. A search for Glider’s criminal history revealed he was accused of stealing another Tiffany & Company store in Texas in 2022, police said.
