A New Zealand police officer has been handed one of the strangest duty assignments ever after a 32-year-old man allegedly swallowed a jewel-encrusted pendant worth roughly $19,000, and the authorities are now forced to wait for it to “reappear.”
According to a report by ABC News, the pendant was stolen on November 28, 2025, at Partridge Jewellers in central Auckland. Surveillance footage and store staff say the man lifted the item, then swallowed it in an attempt to smuggle it out. Police responded within minutes and arrested the suspect inside the store.
