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Threepeat Thief Frates Video 03-02-17

Police Release Video of Frate’s Liquor Store Threepeat Thief

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Three times since mid-December, the same thief has broken outside windows at Frate’s Wines & Liquors at 1937 Post Road in the Noroton section of Darien, ignored the liquor and made off with cash. Now police have released a video showing the man, his car and the act of grabbing the cash register drawer. The hat-trick burglar is not only unusual in returning to the same business three times, Police Chief Ray Osborne says that another unusual aspect of his behavior has made it a little harder for police to catch him.  

“It’s very strange,” Osborne told the Police Commission at its regular meeting Wednesday. “It’s the only place he seems to be hitting, as far as we can find.”

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Burglars Take ATM from One Darien Gas Station, Attempt It at Another

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Thieves broke into the Mobil gas station at 211 Post Road overnight from Sunday to Monday, Aug. 21 to 22, and carried away an automated teller machine with $640 in it. The theft is one of a number of recent burglaries targeting ATM machines around Fairfield County. They include a burglary in Westport that same weekend and another at the Standard gas station at 180 Noroton Ave. (on the east side of that street’s intersection with West Avenue) sometime in the past weekend.

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Man, 59, Charged with Trying to Steal Tires from BMW of Darien

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A 59-year-old man was arrested on an accusation he tried to steal two tires and their rims from BMW of Darien overnight on Sept. 20 to 21. In statements from a department spokesman and in an arrest warrant application, Darien police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court) of the matter:

Sean Healy, now of Park Avenue in Bridgeport, has a long arrest record, including 26 previous arrests charging him with crimes including drug possession and selling as well as larceny and interfering with a police officer. At 3:03 a.m., Darien police received notice of a burglar alarm activated at BMW of Darien at 140 Ledge Road. As they searched the area, police found a gray Dodge Charger sitting in the next-door parking lot of Whole Foods Market, with a Norwalk woman, Jamila Periera, in the front passenger seat.