Darien Motor Vehicles Entered 2019

Police: Unlocked Vehicles Entered Outside Two Homes on Same Night, Locked Ones Not Touched

Two Motor Vehicles Entered Over the Weekend — After a Months-Long Hiatus

Police: Man, 40, Arrested for Stealing SUV on Sedgwick Ave, Burglarizing Home on Overbrook Lane

Police: Woman, 23, Caught Burglarizing Home on Brush Island Road

Three Motor Vehicles Entered, Two in Same General Area of Town

Unlocked Vehicles Outside Five Darien Homes Entered Overnight Wednesday to Thursday Jan 30 to 31

Police: SUV Stolen from Outside Home on Birch Road

5 Unlocked Vehicles Outside 2 Homes on Midbrook Lane Entered, Prescription Meds Taken

Female Burglar Enters Unlocked Vehicles, Then Unlocked House, Startles Resident

Police: Thieves Looking for Unlocked Vehicles Also Look for Unlocked Homes In Darien, Other Towns

One Vehicle Stolen, Four Others Entered in Darien Overnight from Dec 25 to 26

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A pencil case valued at $50 was stolen when a pickup truck and a sport utility vehicle were entered overnight Friday to Saturday, June 14 to 15 on Old Parish Road. On the same night, a key ring with some keys on it was stolen when two vehicles were entered on Holly Lane. In all cases, the vehicles were unlocked. Darien police described what happened with these accounts:
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A home security camera caught two males entering the Chevrolet Blazer, one through the front passenger-side door, the other through the driver’s door of the SUV. Not shown on the video was the entry into the Chevrolet Silverado.

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Two motor vehicles were entered sometime overnight in different parts of town, owners discovered Friday and Sunday — the first such reports in about two and a half months, Police Chief Raymond Osborne said. The vehicles, of course, were unlocked. Locked vehicles are hardly ever entered overnight in residential neighborhoods. “We went over two and a half months without a motor vehicle burglary,” Osborne told the Police Commission on Tuesday. “So, we had a good streak […] now we’ve only had a couple of them, and hopefully this is an anomaly.

A 40-year-old Bronx man accused of stealing an unlocked SUV from a driveway on Sedgwick Avenue and entering a home on Overbrook Lane the same night two months ago has been arrested, Darien police said. The initial report from a woman who saw the burglar dashing out of her house was that it was a female, but the man who was arrested on Tuesday and who was taken to court Wednesday morning told police he had committed the crimes alone. Police gave this account of what happened, including accusations not proven in court:

“Through investigative means,” police said in their announcement on Wednesday, they found evidence against Casey J. Gagnon of Bryant Avenue in the Bronx. Police were granted an arrest warrant by a judge, and New York City police took Gagnon into custody. On Tuesday, Darien police detectives took custody of Gagnon in New York County Court in Manhattan after he waived extradition.

When Darien police went to a house on Brush Island Road after a report that a car alarm had gone off, they found a 23-year-old woman in the garage with knives in her pockets, police said. According to police: The woman said she was visiting a friend, but no one was home, and police later concluded the statement was a lie; she also told police she had forgotten her own last name, then refused to talk to police when she was at the scene. She was arrested. Police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

The report of the car alarm came to police at 9:56 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24.

Two vehicles were entered in the same area on the west side of town, possibly the same night, resulting in the theft of one tool, and another vehicle parked in the lot at Trader Joe’s was entered by someone who stole things from the trunk, Darien police said. Police described what happened in each case with these accounts:
1 Fresh Meadows Lane
The owner of a 2015 Jeep Wrangler left it unlocked in the driveway at 1 Fresh Meadows Lane at about 10 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2. Fresh Meadows Lane is near Holmes Avenue, where two of the other motor vehicles were entered. On Feb.

Unlocked motor vehicles were entered outside five Darien homes on Richmond Drive, Mansfield Place and Woods End Road (all within a mile of each other on the west side of town) overnight Wednesday to Thursday, Jan. 30 to 31. It seems not much loot resulted from the effort: Apparently only the keys to one of the vehicles was taken, but not the vehicle itself. Police described these incidents:
Richmond Drive
A 33 Richmond Dr. resident was woken just before 3:08 a.m. (when police were called) by the sound of his car alarm. The resident looked outside to see two males near one of the vehicles in the driveway.

A 2008 Volvo XC90 was stolen from outside 11 Birch Road sometime between 7 p.m. on Wednesday and 8 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 16 to 17, the owner told police. Police were told the keys had not been in the SUV. Police saw no signs of forced entry at the scene. That’s usually an indication the vehicle was unlocked.

Three vehicles parked outside one house on Midbrook Lane were entered sometime overnight from Monday to Tuesday, Jan. 7 to 8, and another two outside a second house on the same street were also entered. Not one of them was locked. Three prescription medication bottles were missing from the center console of a 2013 Ford Explorer outside 14 Midbrook Lane, police said. Also outside that house were a 2004 Lexus GX and a 2018 Mitsubishi Outback.

A women startled by a noise at 4:50 a.m. in her home at 3 Overbrook Lane thought she must have had an unexpected visit from a family member. She left her bedroom and called out. Then she saw an unknown female leave a second-floor bedroom and run down the stairs. By that point, much of the house had already been ransacked and several items were stolen. It turned out this was the third incident involving thefts from homes or vehicles that night in Darien.

Darien police are advising the public that it’s becoming more frequent for thieves who check to see if vehicles are unlocked to also check to see if a house is unlocked. It happened around Christmas on Fairfield Avenue, in a theft that led to the arrest of a 17-year-old Norwalk boy, and homes were entered twice overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Jan. 9 to 10. Teenagers involved in these thefts and attempts at stealing can often be involved in more serious crimes elsewhere, the statement said. Here’s a statement from Darien police, including details on the recent overnight incidents:

The town of Darien continues to experience an increase in overnight-hour burglaries into unlocked motor vehicles.

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A 2010 Volkswagen Tiguan, parked in the driveway at 47 Fitch Ave. was found stolen the morning after Christmas, one of four vehicles that Darien owners told police had been entered that night. Here’s how Darien police described the incidents:

The stolen SUV had been locked — but other vehicles parked outside the same home weren’t, and the owner said the SUV may have been taken using a spare key in one of the unlocked cars. The Tiguan had been seen in the driveway the night before, at about 11 p.m., when residents of the house arrived home and parked two other SUVs in the driveway, leaving them unlocked. Sometime before 9:18 a.m., when police were called, the door of one of the SUVs, a 2017 Jeep Wrangler, was found ajar.