EAST WENATCHEE — Jewelry and a flint-lock style pistol found inside a vehicle involved in a one-car accident Monday may help clear up burglaries in Douglas County and Chelan County.

The non-injury accident happened when a car, driven by a 19-year-old East Wenatchee man, went out of control and struck the concrete barrier heading south just off the east end of the Sen. George Sellar Bridge, said Dan Reierson, assistant chief for the East Wenatchee Police Department. Officers saw a BB gun inside the car, which may tie the driver to a case involving someone shooting at a semitrailer on Monday.

Officers also saw the jewelry items and the pistol and impounded the vehicle. Reierson said officers suspected that those items were taken in a recent Douglas County burglary. Don Culp, Douglas County undersheriff, said Chelan County sheriff’s deputies subsequently served a search warrant on a residence in the 1500 block of Highway 28, looking for items stolen in a recent Chelan County case that may be related to the driver from the Monday crash. Officials with Chelan County were not available to comment this morning.

The driver was booked into the Chelan County Regional Justice Center on suspicion of drunken driving, first-degree burglary and theft of a firearm.

— Dee Riggs, World staff