Backpack found with jewelry and crow bars

A Grand Coulee man told police that he had found a backpack on a picnic table at North Dam Park, Dec. 24, and when he started to go through it found that it contained some drug paraphernalia.

The backpack contained many jewelry items, lock picking equipment and crow bars.

The man took the backpack to the police department, where an officer checked its contents and found the following:

A black leather wallet, two broken glass smoking pipes, an iPod Shuffle, a cell phone with chargers, miscellaneous cords and hygiene products, clothing and medical wraps, five lighters and three small flashlights, a pocket-size digital scale, pocket knife, a straight razor, a hearing aid, a small microscope for viewing gems, a plastic siphoning pump, an electric grinder with three tips, a wire cutter/strippers, two crow bars, vice grip pliers, channel lock pliers, three flathead screwdrivers, one flathead screwdriver filed to a point, two wrenches, a set of allen wrenches, small multi-tool set with keys, a lock-picking tool, nine rocks and arrowheads, 16 necklaces, seven bracelets, two watches, 10 keys, 14 pendants, 11 earrings, two silver dollars, four 50-cent pieces, six nickels, one silver penny, six foreign coins, 21 silver spoons, 16 silver forks, six silver knives, one silver spatula, eight abalone-type beads and a beaded pendant.

Police were checking with other jurisdictions to see if any of the items in the backpack matched items that had been reported missing.

Interim police Chief John Tufts said that the pipes had been sent to the state laboratory for testing.

The owner of the backpack wasn't cited because there was no evidence that any law had been broken, Tufts said.