Commercial Burglaries 2020
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DCA Thrift Shop, Gas Station Burglarized in Latest Overnight Business Thefts

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Some money was stolen from the DCA Thrift Shop overnight from Sunday to Monday, Sept. 6 to 7, and a gas station in town was entered overnight from Sept. 10 to 11, but nothing was apparently missing in that incident, police said. According to police:
DCA Thrift Shop, 996 Post Road
At 7:45 a.m., police received a report from someone at the thrift shop who told them that when she arrived at the store, she noticed the deadbolt to an outside door was in the open position. She went to the cash register, where she found that an envelope containing cash was missing.

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Police Investigate Burglaries at Two Darien Gas Stations, Fitness Club

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Three Darien businesses were burglarized over the past two weeks, with glass doors smashed to get inside and cash registers stolen in the most recent break-ins, both at gas stations, police said. At 6:19 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19, police were called to the Shell gas station at 805 Post Road, at the corner of Sedgwick Avenue and the Post Road. An employee had found the door broken when he arrived at 6:15 a.m.

The business’s security camera showed a male walking around the building at about 4:30 a.m. before shattering the glass with a hammer, entering and taking the cash register, which held a small amount of cash. Police detectives went to the store to examine the scene for evidence.

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Gas Station’s Glass Door Smashed and Cash Taken in Overnight Break-In

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A “quantity of cash” was taken sometime overnight from Monday to Tuesday, April 20 to 21 when a glass door was smashed and the Citgo gas station at the corner of Tokeneke and Five Mile River Roads was entered, police said. Darien police provided this further information about the incident:

At 7:50 a.m., Police were called by someone who works at the gas station, located just before the bridge going into Rowayton. The man said that when he arrived at 7:30, he saw the glass door shattered. He checked inside and found that cash had been stolen from the register. Police detectives went to the station to examine it for evidence.

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Break-in at Mama Carmela’s Deli Involves Tampered Lock, Not Much Taken

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A lock was tampered with in order to break in to Mama Carmela’s Italian Deli sometime overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, Feb. 26 to 27, but not much money was taken, according to police. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Darien Police Commission, Police Chief Donald Anderson described the burglary, adding additional details to the police announcement issued the same day. At 5:15 a.m., Wednesday, a police officer on patrol was flagged down by two people in front of Mama Carmela’s at 1981 Post Road. They told the officer that when they arrived at work, they found the front-door lock had been damaged.