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Items Stolen from Three Unlocked Vehicles and a Mailbox, Same Night, Most in Same Area of Town

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Along with the normal thefts from unlocked vehicles overnight, 10 thank-y0u cards were taken from a mailbox sometime overnight from Monday to Tuesday, Oct. 8 to 9 — all but one in the same area of town. The thefts, all reported Tuesday morning, occurred on Middlesex Road, Noroton Avenue and Edgerton Street. A locked vehicle in the same driveway as one of the thefts was untouched, police pointed out. Also: Darien police also report that during the past week Darien police responded to 10 motor vehicle accidents, of which three involved minor injuries.

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Car Entered on Meadowbrook Road the Same Night Two Vehicles Were Stolen from Huckleberry Lane

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At 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, a resident of 8 Meadowbrook Road went out to his SUV outside the house to find that it had been rifled through. The 2016 Audi Q5 had been unlocked overnight, the same night that two unlocked vehicles were stolen several blocks to the north on Huckleberry Lane. One of those vehicles was involved in a police pursuit several nights later in Westport and Fairfield. After the driver crashed the car, he and two other teenagers were arrested.

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Three Vehicles Within Three Blocks of Each Other Entered Overnight Thursday to Friday

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Overnight Thursday to Friday, Aug. 2 to 3, three unlocked vehicles parked outside homes in Noroton were entered, two on Garden City Road and a third just three blocks away on Crimmins Road, police said. The owner of a green 2017 Jaguar F-Type, parked outside 16 Garden City Road, noticed that the vehicle had been entered and rummaged through and called police at 6:16 a.m., Friday. Nothing seemed to be missing. The owner thought she had locked the car when it was parked the day before, but there were no signs of forced entry.

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Window Broken, Purse Stolen from SUV Sunday Afternoon in Darien YMCA Parking Lot

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A window was smashed and a purse containing a checkbook and credit cards was stolen from the center console of an SUV parked Sunday afternoon at the Darien YMCA, police were told. The victim told police she had parked her gray 2012 Toyota Sienna in the lot at the Y from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5. When she returned, she found the front passenger’s side window broken out. The purse, valued at $350, was missing.

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Thefts from Unlocked Cars, SUVs Across Town Entered Overnights in Mid-June

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Across town, Darienites who didn’t lock their car or sport utility vehicles overnight found out between about June 14 and the early morning of June 19 that the vehicles had been entered overnight, police said. Sometimes items were taken, and on Alpine Lane, where there was a report of suspicious males early one morning, an SUV stolen from Stamford was found not far from where other vehicles had been entered. Alpine and Edelweiss Lanes, Monday to Tuesday
Two of the vehicles were entered on Alpine Lane or Edelweiss Lane overnight from Monday to Tuesday, June 18 to 19. That’s the same area where two vehicles were entered overnight from the previous Friday to Saturday (among 10 entered across town that night). In the previous cases, one vehicle was on Echo Drive, the other on 7 Alpine Lane — right next door to one entered at 5 Alpine Lane overnight on Monday to Tuesday.

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SUV on Lynn Court, Car on Patton Drive Stolen Overnight Fri to Sat, Other Unlocked Vehicles Entered

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Ten unlocked vehicles were entered by thieves overnight Friday to Saturday in two areas of town, and two vehicles were stolen in each area: One area is south of St. John’s Cemetery; the other is on streets off of West Avenue near downtown Noroton Heights. The vehicles were all parked on side streets, not main roads leading to those streets, although some of the streets intersected only with main roads. In one case, police said, a victim’s surveillance camera, which monitored an entrance to the house near the doorbell, had captured some images:

It showed a light-colored sedan pass the house at 11 Lynn Ct. several times.

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Oops: Woman Tells Police $12,000 in Cash Taken From Unlocked Car at Park

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Darien police say a woman told them Wednesday not only that she had not locked her car when she parked at Stony Brook Park on Ledge Road, but that she’d left her purse in it — containing cash totaling $12,000. The purse and the money were gone when she got back to the car, she told police. Here’s how police described what she told them:

At about 4:30 p.m., she parked her blue 2015 Subaru XV in the small lot at the park, then left. When she got back to the car at about 5:40 p.m., her purse, left on the front passenger seat, was gone. Along with the money, there were several credit cards, also gone.

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Car Damaged in Apparent Burglary Attempt

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A Herman Avenue resident told police that his black 2010 Chevrolet Malibu recently was damaged in an apparent burglary attempt. The matter was reported to police on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The owner said he hadn’t noticed the damage until a neighbor mentioned that recently there had been numerous thefts from cars in the neighborhood. The car had been locked and no entry was made by any thief.

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Slew of UNLOCKED Vehicles Entered Overnight in 3-Block Area of Noroton Heights

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Several thefts were discovered on Friday from 17 unlocked cars and sport utility vehicles entered overnight  — 13 on Allen O’Neill Drive and four more on Herman Avenue, two blocks to the east. The 17 vehicles were parked outside nine homes on Allen O’Neill Drive and two homes on Herman Avenue. Most of the vehicle owners in that Noroton Heights neighborhood told police they didn’t find anything missing, and the list of items looted from the vehicles is pretty short: A wallet (with an unknown amount of money in it), a dart set valued at $160, a Dunkin Donuts gift card, a Macy’s store card. Vehicles reported as having been entered but with nothing stolen from them usually have items from the glove compartment or center console strewn about inside or are found with doors left ajar. After police were notified early Friday morning by one of the victims who found items taken from her sport utility vehicle, police canvassed the neighborhood and quickly found many other cars that had been entered.

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Theft From SUV, Apparently Unlocked, While Overbrook Lane Resident on Vacation

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While a Darien woman was on vacation between Dec. 26 and 31, someone entered her SUV, parked in the driveway at her home on Overbrook Lane and stole $10 in loose change, police said. The woman told police she thought she had locked the 2018 Audi Q7, but there were no signs that the vehicle had been forced open. When she returned from vacation, she found a door ajar. The incident was reported to police on Jan.