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Police: License Plate Reader Picks Up One Stolen Car, Cops Given Several False Statements

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When a 40-year-old man was found in Darien driving a car stolen from Newark, N.J., one statement after another he gave to police proved untrue, officers said. Darien police described the arrest with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

At 10:05 a.m. on Wednesday, July 12, officers on patrol were parked off of Hoyt Street when a gray Toyota Camry with Connecticut license plates drove past, headed south. As the car passed, the license plate reader in the patrol car indicated the vehicle’s registration information showed it had been reported stolen, so the police car took off. As police followed right behind the car, it suddenly made a turn onto Phillips Lane, parking in the driveway at 10 Phillips Lane. The patrol car pulled in behind and the emergency lights went on.

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Keep up Your Registration, Insurance — or the License Plate Reader Could Get You

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Darien police say that on Sunday an officer stopped an SUV with suspended registration driven by the owner’s son, 19, who didn’t have his learner’s permit with him but did have marijuana in his car. Police described the incident with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

At 1:42 a.m., a police officer on a holiday roaming patrol on Middlesex Road was alerted by the license plate reader on the patrol car, indicating that a Toyota Sequoia on the road nearby didn’t have current insurance. The officer stopped the SUV on Middlesex Road near its intersection with Colony Road. The driver, a 19-year-old Stamford man, said he was driving his father’s vehicle and didn’t have his learner’s permit with him. He also couldn’t find the car’s registration or insurance card.