Westport police arrested a North Carolina tractor-trailer driver after his vehicle pin-balled through the Westport YMCA parking lot, striking a tree, a sign post, and an unoccupied parked vehicle before later becoming stuck under a Merritt Parkway underpass.

Christopher Alexander: held in lieu of $500 bond. Westport Police photo

Police gave this account: shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday, police received a call of a motor vehicle accident at the YMCA, 14 Allen Raymond Lane.

The responding officer learned a tractor-trailer struck a tree, a sign post and an unoccupied parked vehicle, dragging it out of its parking space, before leaving the scene, said Lt. Jillian Cabana.

A check of parking lot surveillance cameras produced a partial registration and a vehicle description. The information was put out to other officers and State Police, who said a vehicle matching that description was stuck under the Grumman Road underpass in Norwalk.

Officers arrested a Bridgeport man Thursday on burglary and larceny charges for stealing more than $50,000 worth of jewelry from home left vacant after a woman had died, police said today.

Carl Cebollero: held on $500 bond. Westport Police photo

According to Lt. Jillian Cabana, the woman’s son reported the burglary on Sept. 5.

“Family members frequenting the home reported a recent burglary in which a large amount of jewelry, valued at over $50,000, had been stolen,” Cabana said. “The victim provided photographs and drawings of some of the missing items to investigators.”

She said that detectives later recovered approximately $37,000 worth of the stolen items at a Bridgeport pawnshop, and that the person who had pawned the stolen items was identified as Carl Cebollero, 28.