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. 17 (Wakeman Road is not far from the Exit 13 entrance to the northbound lanes on Interstate 95 (which would put the thief on the quickest route to New Haven, although it would take about 40 to 45 minutes to get there).
The credit card was used twice at a Mobil Gas Station in New Haven — once for $40.22 purchase, and a second time to buy an item or items priced at a total of $80.22. (The total amount spent was $120.88.)
A turqoise and green Clave brand tote bag valued at $20 was taken, along with the Luis Vitton red wallet inside it and valued at $905. Also taken: A pair of sunglasses valued at $390, a debit card and a visa credit card, the victim’s driver’s license, a thin, 18-inch gold chain valued at $150, gift cards with a total value of $380. In all, items valued at a total of $1,800 were taken.
As a police officer was driving to the address where the theft took place, the officer saw a sunglasses case on or by the side of the road. The victim identified the case as hers, although the glasses inside it were gone.
Police are investigating the case and plan to view surveillance video recordings from the gas station.