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Window of BMW Smashed on Old Kings Hwy North — Thief Got Next to Nothing

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A window was smashed by a thief to get entry into a car parked in a lot off of Old Kings Highway North sometime in the late morning Sunday, Jan. 7. The thief didn’t get anything of much value: six months of the victim’s pay stubs in the glove box and two empty bank bags on the back seat, according to Darien police. Police gave this further account of what happened:

The victim parked his 0 BMW X6 at the Old Kings Highway Tennis Club at  Old Kings Hwy. North at about 10:30 a.m. When he returned to the car at 12 noon, he saw that the rear driver’s side window was smashed and the glove box was open. The car was locked and was the only one known to have been broken into.

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Caught in the Act, Burglar Runs Off, Drops Wallet

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A man looked out the window of his home in the Kensett development when he looked out the window to see someone walk up his driveway and open the driver’s side door of his unlocked Jeep Grand Cherokee. Which was where his wallet was. The man told police that he went outside to confront the thief when he saw him saw start searching around inside the vehicle. The thief saw him and started walking away, with the victim’s wallet in his hand. The victim told the thief to drop the wallet, and he did, running off.

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Two Stamford Teens Charged with Burglarizing 10 Vehicles in Darien

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After an early morning phone call Wednesday to police from a woman who said she just saw a neighbor’s vehicle burglarized by two people, Darien police arrested them both. Darien police described the incident today (Wednesday, May 4) with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

A resident of Intervale Road told police at 5:30 a.m. to report the burglary she said she’d just seen. Several officers went to the area. Nearby, on Devon Road, Officers Daniel Noto and Daniel Gorton found a subject who matched the caller’s description. Police determined the subject, a 17-year-old Stamford boy, was one of the two burglars, and they arrested him.

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Rock Thrown Through Window of Vehicle Parked at Office Building

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On Tuesday morning, March 8, someone threw a rock through the passenger-side window of an employee’s pickup truck parked by an office building on the Post Road, police said. An employee at the office, located at 455 Post Road, told police that when she arrived at the office at 8:30 a.m., she didn’t see the window broken, but another employee who came in 15 minutes later said the window had been smashed. The employee was not at work that day, but his wife came to the scene. She said it didn’t appear that anything had been taken from the truck, and the glove compartment was still locked. A small, tan-colored rock was on the passenger seat, and the doors were still locked.

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Police: It Looks Like the Felony Lane Gang Is Back

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Recent car break-ins on Saturday, Oct. 31 at Cherry Lawn Park (the second time windows of several vehicles were smashed at the park) look like the work of the Felony Lane Gang, Darien police said Friday in an announcement. Police said that in the past week break-ins that also look like the work of the gang have occurred in “dozens of similar incidents” in other area communities. Unauthorized charges have been made to credit cards and debit cards stolen from purses in the vehicles, also a mark of the gang. The brief statement on Friday said that cars in the parking lots of fitness clubs, parks and day-care centers are typically targeted.

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Windows Smashed, Purses Taken from 4 Vehicles in Cherry Lawn Park — Felony Lane Gang?

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After windows of four vehicles were smashed and thieves took purses at Cherry Lawn Park, Darien police are wondering if the “Felony Lane Gang” has paid the town another visit. On Oct. 31, four vehicles were hit in the park at 120 Brookside Road in a very short time. Purses were taken from the floors and seats inside, although none of the credit cards were stolen by the time police wrote up a report on the incidents. Weeks ago, Darien police said, the town was visited by members of the “Felony Lane Gang”, a national group of thieves who targeted items in vehicles.

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Rock Used to Break into Vehicle on Wakeman Road

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Someone used a softball-sized rock to smash the passenger-side window of a sport utility vehicle parked overnight on Wakeman Road on Thursday night, Darien police said. The incident occurred about seven tenths of a mile away from Pine Brook Lane, where someone entered three unlocked vehicles on the same night. No windows were smashed in the Pine Brook Lane cases. Unlike the Pine Brook Lane cases, quite a bit was stolen from the 2013 GMC Yukon sometime between 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the police report. A credit card was taken and used at 12:11 a.m. in New Haven on Friday, Oct.

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Thefts from Three Unlocked Cars on Pine Brook Lane Overnight Thu to Fri

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Sometime overnight from Thursday to Friday, three unlocked cars parked in driveways on Pine Brook Lane were entered and had things taken from them, the victims told police. Of the three vehicles from which things were stolen on the very short street, the latest to be parked in one of the driveways came at 10:10 p.m., and the earliest point that someone found things missing in one of the vehicles was 6 a.m.

On the same night, someone used a rock to smash a passenger window of a vehicle parked on Wakeman Lane, then steal items valued at $1,800 from the vehicle

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The owner of a black 2014 BMW X3 was the first to report a theft. The 59-year-old woman came to Police Headquarters at about 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Oc. 16. She told police that shed parked her car in her driveway at 7:50 p.m. Thursday and returned to it at 6 a.m., Friday to find the center console open and a $20 bill and a small amount of loose coins missing from it.

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Cops: Three Car Burglary Arrests Last Week only the Tip of the ‘Felony Lane Gang’

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Three Florida men arrested last week by Darien police in connection with motor vehicle burglaries in town appear to be a tiny part of an enormous gang, hundreds strong, who steal purses from cars, Darien police said. The following account is based on a Darien police description of their investigation, which contains accusations not proven in court:

Police believe the men already arrested had also broken into cars last week, both in a lot at Cherry Lawn Park and in the parking lot at the Darien YMCA. A second group of men, connected with the Darien arrestees, were found and arrested in West Haven in connection with motor vehicle break-ins near that community. Police say the 10-year-old group they’ve named the “Felony Lane Gang,” based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has had 700 known members, has been conducting car break-ins as professional criminals in at least 40 states, and has several distinct ways it typically commits its crimes. “Felony Lane” is a nickname for the far right lane at a bank drive-up window.