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When a police officer stopped a car on a dead-end street just off the Post Road at 3:40 a.m. Tuesday, the driver and passenger turned out to be two 16-year-olds from Bridgeport, and the car turned out to have been stolen from Stamford, police said. (more…) Continue Reading →
Overnight from Saturday to Sunday, cars were entered on the lower end of Hollow Tree Ridge Road and nearby Wilson Ridge Road, and in one case an attempt was made to steal an SUV from a driveway, police said. Each of the vehicles was unlocked, despite repeated thefts from vehicles many times before in that same neighborhood. (more…) Continue Reading →
Rocaton Road, not far from Darien Railroad Station, but still an out-of-the-way side street with only one outlet on to Leroy Road, has experienced its second theft of an unlocked vehicle this year, according to a police report. (more…) Continue Reading →
Three unlocked vehicles were entered overnight in Darien, two of them at 6 Rainbow Cir. from Thursday to Friday, Aug. 3 to 4, when an iPad valued at about $500 was taken. In a third case, an unlocked vehicle was entered on Leroy Ave. at 1:19 a.m. on Friday, July 28. Continue Reading →
Two pairs of sunglasses and a tote bag were stolen sometime overnight from Thursday to Friday, July 27 to 28from unlocked cars parked in a driveway on McLaren Road South, Darien police were told. (more…) Continue Reading →
Overnight thefts from parked vehicles happened in two different neighborhoods in town on different nights last week. What they had in common is what these thefts normally have in common — the cars were unlocked when they were left outside overnight. (more…) Continue Reading →
Eight people in Greenwich went to bed Saturday night only to wake up Sunday morning to find their cars were gone, according to police there, and in two cases, the thefts resulted in car chases. Every single one of the cars was unlocked and with the keys inside. (more…) Continue Reading →
Six motor vehicles — all of them unlocked — were entered sometime overnight from Thursday to Friday, July 13 to 14, on Thomasina Lane (a dead-end road off of Dubois Street), Darien police said. (more…) Continue Reading →
A tan Lincoln Navigator was stolen from outside a house on Christie Hill Road sometime overnight from Saturday to Sunday, a resident told police. (more…) Continue Reading →
Police last week received these two reports of motor vehicles entered and items stolen from them. As usual, the vehicles hadn’t been locked. (more…) Continue Reading →
The time of Darien police officers was taken up and thieves were rewarded when two more Darien residents neglected or decided not to keep their cars locked overnight when parked outside. Items were stolen from each vehicle. (more…) Continue Reading →
A car left typically unlocked in the driveway of a home at 45 Mansfield Ave. was stolen recently, a resident reported to police. (more…) Continue Reading →
A 45-year-old Greenwich man forgot to lock his gray 2014 BMW 550xi in the parking lot of Shake Shack late one recent afternoon and returned to it about 20 minutes later. (more…) Continue Reading →
Darien Police report an eye-popping 22 motor vehicles were entered in town in the course of last week — every single one of them unlocked — with items taken from some. (more…) Continue Reading →
Two vehicles were stolen overnight in Darien last week — both unlocked, both with the keys left in them — and one was found in Waterbury with the help of a GPS system, town police said. (more…) Continue Reading →