A Utah woman is behind bars, where she has been ordered to comb through her bowel movements to find a ring that her companion stole from a jewelry store, police said. 
 
 “No, she hasn’t passed the ring yet, and no, we’re not digging it out,” Orem Police Lt. Craig Martinez told the Daily News on Tuesday. 
 
 Christina Schlegel, 25, and Bryan Ford, 30, were arrested after Ford allegedly stole a double-band wedding ring from a Zales store, police said. 
 
 Ford had run off with the ring, chased by a mall employee, but managed to jump into a car with Schlegel behind the wheel, police said. 
 
 Christina Schlegel, 25, is jailed in Utah, where authorities are waiting for her to pass a stolen ring that she swallowed, police said. (Orem Department of Public Safety) 
 
 Their car was pulled over a short distance away, but the ring was not found. 
 
 An X-ray of the woman’s stomach showed she had swallowed it, police said. 
 
 Both were charged with felony theft and booked into the Utah County Jail. 
 
 Schlegel is in a cell with a “dry toilet” that does not flush, Martinez said. 
 
 “We don’t get paid enough to dig through people’s bowel movements,” he said. 
 
 Schlegel must do that job, he said. 
 
 Bryan Ford took the ring, but his accomplice gobbled it down, cops say. (Orem Department of Public Safety) 
 
 Police did not release details on how much the ring is worth, saying only that it cost “several thousand dollars.” 
 
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 OREM — In a case that offers a new definition of expensive tastes, police arrested a woman after they say she swallowed a ring to keep it from being found. 
 
 A man was looking at a ring worth thousands of dollars at the Zales store at University Mall, 575 E. University Parkway, Friday evening, according to a statement by Orem police Lt. Craig Martinez. The man left the store and entered a white Pontiac G6 with a woman at the wheel. 
 
 Police responded around 7:36 p.m. and found that an employee had been chasing, but did not capture, the man. The Pontiac was last seen headed west on University Parkway, with sticky notes covering the car's license plate, Martinez said. 
 
 About a half-hour later, a Utah Valley University officer stopped a car matching the suspect's vehicle description at Ventana Student Housing, 1386 S. 400 West, according to police. Inside they found Bryan Ford, 30, at the wheel, and passenger Christina Schlegel, 25. 
 
 A Zales employee identified Ford as the man who stole the ring, Martinez said. After following leads with no success, investigators discovered that Schlegel swallowed the ring so police would not find it when they pulled over the car. 
 
 An X-ray taken at a local hospital revealed the ring in Schlegel's stomach, according to police. 
 
 Police booked Schlegel and Ford into the Utah County Jail on investigation of theft. 
 
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 Orem,UT- A Utah woman allegedly stole an expensive ring and swallowed it. 
 
 
 
 Now, Zales jewelers are stuck waiting to get back that diamond in the rough. 
 
 
 
 Orem police say Christina Schlegel,25, waited in a car while her alleged partner-in-crime, Brian Ford,29, stole the ring. 
 
 
 
 According to police, Ford took a ring, hopped into the car, and then they drove off. 
 
 
 
 The duo didn't get far before Utah Valley University police caught up with them 30 minutes later. Police say they were confused on the whereabouts of the ring. That was until an X-ray of Schlegel's stomach was taken. 
 
 
 
 Officials released X-rays that clearly show the ring. Doctors say it could take anywhere from hours to weeks for the ring to get out of someone's intestinal tract. 
 
 
 
 Both suspects are in jail facing felony theft charges.
– They might have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky X-rays: Police in Orem, Utah, who pulled over a man suspected of stealing a ring worth thousands of dollars last Friday eventually discovered it in his passenger's belly, reports the Deseret News. Bryan Ford, 30, and Christina Schlegel, 25, were taken to a police station and sent cops seeking the ring on "several wild goose chases" before an X-ray revealed that Schlegel had swallowed it when the pair were first pulled over, according to Tucson News Now. Both have been charged with felony theft.