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Two Motor Vehicle Burglaries: Same Night, Same Neighborhood

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Sometime overnight from July 31 to Aug. 1, two vehicles were entered while they were parked in driveways on the same street. Both vehicles were unlocked and parked in driveways on Pear Tree Point Road:

In one case, a 2013 Mercedes SUV was entered by a burglar sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31 and 1:45 p.m. the next day. A total of $50 in coins was taken. When police asked other residents of the neighborhood if their vehicles were also broken into, they found the owner of a 2006 Audi A8, who said the center console in his car had been opened overnight by someone and items in it were out of place. But nothing seemed to be missing, he said.

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The Costly Side of Exercising: Two Police Reports

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One reason to be careful about exercising — well, at a fitness club, anyway — is that you might leave your jewelry in a cupholder of a cardio machine and, exhausted after your workout, forget about it and walk away. That’s what a 25-year-0ld New Canaan woman told police she did at Equinox fitness club at 72 Heights Road on Tuesday, July 21. (We’re assuming the exhausted part — maybe she wasn’t.)

She was working out sometime between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. when she left her Cartier woman’s watch in the cupholder. The item is valued at $2,780. She went home before realizing what she had done.

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Wallet, Phone Stolen from Unlocked SUV Parked Overnight at Shopping Center

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A man told police that someone entered his SUV, which had broken locks, when it was parked overnight at a shopping center parking lot in town. The man parked the 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee in the lot at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 9. He returned to the shopping center at 25 Old King’s Highway North at about 9 a.m. the next day. A wallet, including the debit and credit cards in it, was stolen. The wallet had been in the center console.

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Tools Stolen from Van Parked at Home on Little Brook Road

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A van parked at a home Little Brook Road overnight was broken into and tools worth hundreds of dollars were stolen from it, the owner told police. The victim left the 2004 GMC 2500 Series van parked outside the home at about 5 p.m. Friday, July 3. When the owner returned at about 4:30 p.m. the next day he noticed the a door handle on the vehicle’s passenger side had been damaged. Several tools had been taken, including a Makita hand blower valued at $200 and a Makita screw gun and impact driver set valued at $600. The cost to repair the van was not in the police report.

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Gifts Stolen from SUV Parked Overnight on Rose Lane

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A 58-year-old man told Darien police that gifts were stolen out of his SUV overnight July 9 to 10 while the vehicle was parked in the driveway of a house on Rose Lane. The man said he parked his 2015 Ford Explorer at 11 p.m. and returned to it the next morning at 9 a.m. when he noticed several packages were gone. The packages were wrapped gifts, incliuding clothing valued at $150 and sneakers with a value of $100. The SUV had been unlocked.

Three Vehicles Entered in Noroton by Picky Burglars

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Twice in one week Darien residents were given the ultimate put-down by a burglar or burglars — the thief didn’t want their stuff. Two town residents told police their cars, each parked in the victim’s driveway, were entered overnight from June 18 to 19 (last Thursday to Friday), and a third vehicle burglary occurred a few days before but in two cases the stolen items were found by the side of a road. All the burglaries were in the Noroton section of town, and two of them happened close by each other; the other, within a couple of miles. One or more credit cards from one of the stolen wallets was used at a Target store in Connecticut, and police in that community have a suspect, so Darien police may be charging someone in connection with at least one of the thefts. Here are descriptions of each incident as given by Darien police:

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A 2010 Nissan Sentra parked in the driveway of a home on Warner Drive between 11 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday was entered after the front passenger window was smashed.