Two more house burglaries were reported to Darien police in the past week, with one of them in Tokeneke, where three burglaries had been reported two weekends ago.
Darien police said that unlike the three previous break-ins, they don’t have a suspect and they have no clear indication yet that the two more recent burglaries were perpetrated by the same burglar or burglars.
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One occurred the previous weekend on Tower Drive, a street off of Mansfield Avenue (that burglary happend sometime before 1 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, the weekend that the three Tokeneke burglaries occurred); the most recent break-in took place just this weekend on Old Farm Road in Tokeneke.
For each investigation, police asked neighbors if they had noticed anything suspicious, but no one reported hearing or seeing anything unusual.
Police gave these accounts of the break-ins:
Old Farm Road
At 12:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, residents reported to police that they had just returned home from a weekend trip and found the house had been broken into.
When police arrived, they set up a perimeter around the house, then went in to check to make sure no burglar was still inside. They found no one.
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Sliding glass doors leading to the patio had been smashed in to gain entry to the house. Kitchen drawers had been rummaged through, and a silverware set was missing from the kitchen/dining room area on the first floor.
A second-floor closet had been rifled through, and the owner was sure some jewelry of his and his wife’s had been taken from the master bedroom closet on the second floor. The victims were still compiling a list of missing items when the initial police report was written.
Before the family left, the house was locked and multiple lights were on timers, but the alarm system had not been armed. Police do not know when over the weekend the burglary occurred.
Tower Drive
A house was burglarized on Tower Drive sometime between 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 9 and 1 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, when a husband and wife returned home from a vacation and found the front door had been forced open.
Someone had tried to enter the house through sliding glass doors leading into the house from the rear deck — they’d been pried open, but wooden dowels placed in the bottom slots had prevented the doors from being opened. (One difference with the Old Farm Road burglary about a week later: in that incident, the glass doors had been smashed.)
The front door was cracked and splintered near the latch. It’s possible, police said, that the door had been “shouldered” open by force. The homeowners found that when they tried to deactivate the alarm system, there was no power in the keypad.
Police later found that the electrical panel for the security system was open and electrical components had been taken out of it. A battery backup power source was also disconnected. The alarm company said no signal had been received of a break-in at the residence.
Inside the house, a front office area was ransacked, as was a bedroom on the first floor, with the contents of drawers dumped out on the floor. Pictures were removed from the wall — as if, police speculated, someone was looking for a hidden wall safe. In the children’s rooms, drawers were pulled out, but they hadn’t been dumped out.
The owners couldn’t immediately say what had been stolen from the house, but they told police they would look further and report any missing items. The police report had no further information on what was missing, if anything.