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Darien Police: Three New York Men in a Bank Parking Lot Caught With Fake Credit Cards

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Three men in a BMW loitering in a bank parking lot were questioned by police last Thursday, and when a police dog indicated there were narcotics inside the car, police found marijuana and fake credit cards, Darien police said. Although two of the men ran off, they were captured. All three are teenagers; two from Queens, the other from near Queens on Long Island. Police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

At 9:13 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, someone called police to tell them that a black BMW sedan with dark tinted windows had been backed into a parking space in a corner of the parking lot of the TD Bank at 54 Post Road for more than an hour.

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All in Darien: 3 Unrelated Identity Theft Cases & an Arrest on Credit Card Fraud Charge

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Darien police recently reported four unrelated incidents involving identity theft or other alleged fraudulent use of financial accounts, including one in which a 21-year-old man was arrested. Police described what happened in each case with these accounts, including accusations not proven in court:

A New York City man on Monday, June 19 tried to use a credit card to buy a $450 gift card from a store clerk in Walgreens at 138 Heights Road. But the clerk looked at the credit card and became suspicious, thinking it could be fraudulent. The clerk asked the man, 21-year-old Yasir Eltigani of 148th Road in the Rosedale section of Queens, for identification. The man gave it to the clerk, and store employees called in Darien police at about 2:23 p.m.

Officers were given a description of the suspect and police matched it to Eltigani, who was still in the area. The clerk confirmed that Eltigani was the one who was trying to buy the gift card.

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Identity Theft and Potential Identity Theft Cases Reported by Darien Residents

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These cases of identity theft were recently reported to Darien police:

On Thursday, Feb. 23, a woman in her 70s told police that someone had applied for and received a Citicard Mastercard credit card in her name. Citicard had told the woman that the card had been given out. The woman’s address and Social Security number were used in the application. The card was used to make a purchase, but the police report didn’t say where or how much was spent.

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Two Unauthorized Charges from Darien Woman’s Account Leave a Trail

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A 58-year-old Darien woman found two unauthorized charges in a statement from her credit card recently, but the nature of the items purchased appear to lead to a suspect. The two charges were made on Feb. 13 and 14, and each was made out to a Fairfield County newspaper: $55.92 in payment for an advertisement in the Newtown Bee on the 13th and $105 in payment for an ad in the Connecticut Post on the 14th. The victim went to police on Saturday, Feb. 18.

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Alleged Identity Theft from Both Sides: Darien Victims in Two Cases, Arrest in a Third

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On the same week that a Queens, N.Y. man turned himself in to Darien police on charges related to identity theft, two Darien residents reported being victimized by the lucrative business. The arrest came when Shamar Adams, 27, turned himself in at Police Headquarters after he’d been told by a Massachusetts state trooper or police officer (who stopped him for an alleged traffic offense) that Darien police had a warrant for his arrest. The warrant stemmed from a 2015 incident and investigation. Darien police gave this account of it (including accusations not proven in court):

Back on June 2, 2015, at 4:20 a.m., a police officer saw a car parked at the Exxon service station at 1358 Post Road (the one with the wooden bear in front of it). The gas station was closed, so the officer stopped to ask what the occupants of the car were doing there.