Did you know that Jewelry store thieves sometimes swallow their stash at the scene in order to make a clean getaway? I was in the jewelry trade and I didn’t know that one!

Since this form of hiding the stash is more common than I ever knew it was, police have now started to routinely wait out those suspected of stealing jewels. The cops monitor the toilets until the evidence passes naturally.

In March of 2007 Police in Canton, Ohio arrested four men. They were certain that at least one of them had swallowed a 2-carat ring said to be worth about $30,000. Police recovered the ring the following day after sifting through the toilets. The ring still had the stores price tag on it!