Public Safety
After Burglary Suspect Arrested in Darien Home, Victim Thanks Police Officers in a Letter
|
Police officers drew their guns to confront a burglar at the top of a staircase in a Darien home last month, and when he fled elsewhere in the house, according to the police report, they followed, not knowing if he was armed, too. The Dec. 15 incident, previously reported by Darienite.com and others, involved a number of police officers who were later thanked by a resident of the house in a letter to the department that we publish here (see below). Darien Police not only arrested the burglar, who was wearing a watch and gold chain owned by a resident of the house, and the burglar had stolen other items from the home and they found other items in his car, and they’ve been working to connect those items to other thefts in the area, according to the police account. Here’s the letter, which was brought up at a recent meeting of the Police Commission:
Dec.
