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Ride, Lock, Get Stolen, Repeat: Several Locked Bicycles Stolen at Darien, Noroton Heights Train Stations

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Several bicycles were stolen at Darien and Noroton Heights railroad stations over a period of several days early last week, the owners told police, with locks cut and sometimes left behind. Darien police are investigating the daytime thefts, the first of which occurred well before the others on Tuesday, Sept. 5 (but wasn’t reported until later), and then once per day from Monday, Sept. 11 through Wednesday, Sept. 13.

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Police: Angry Man at Darien Train Station Yells, Swears, Breaks Taxi Window

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A 55-year-old man, unsteady on his feet, acted belligerent and yelled profanities in the south parking lot at Darien Railroad Station, according to police who came to the scene when a taxi driver reported that the man had broken the taxi’s window. Darien police described what happened with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

The taxi driver, backed up by another witness at the scene, told police at 5:27 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10 that the man walked up to the driver to ask if he was working. Thedriver said the man could get in the back seat of the cab, but the man — later identified by police as Donald Cavett Jr. of Richardson, Texas — instead yelled an expletive and walked away. Cavett walked back to the taxi in a way that seemed aggressive to the taxi driver, who then rolled up the windows to avoid a confrontation. Cavett then pulled on the rear passenger window, breaking it.

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Paintball Attack at Darien Train Station: Vandals Miss Commuters, Vehicles Not So Lucky

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You don’t see this every day (and be thankful for it): Two people at Darien Railroad Station told police they’d been shot at with a paintball gun by someone in a black four-door sedan who was being driven through the parking lot. The incident occurred at 9:10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 5 on the eastbound side of the train station (the side nearest Dunkin Donuts) as the victims, who had just gotten off the train, were walking through the parking lot, headed toward work. The victims, a 32-year-old Brooklyn man and a 52-year-old man, also from New York City, told police there were at least two people in the car, but they couldn’t give any description of them. When the two pedestrians last saw the car, it was headed down Squab Lane toward Leroy Avenue. The people were lucky, but the owners of two SUVs parked in the lot were not: Orange paint from the paint balls was found on a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Volvo XC90.

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Police: One Teen Caught After Car Stolen in Stamford Crashes in Darien

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New Haven Line trains were halted Wednesday night as police searched and caught a teenager who fled from a stolen car that was in a traffic accident in downtown Darien, police said. ________

Update, 6:09 p.m. — The caught suspect is a 15-year-old Bridgeport girl, according to a Darien News report. ________

A pizza delivery driver in Stamford reported the car had been stolen, according to the Stamford Police Department, which described what happened in a statement on Facebook reposted by Darien police:

The pizza delivery driver left the keys in his 1999 Honda Civic while making a delivery on Henry Street in the South End of Stamford. The driver reported the theft to police at about 6:50 p.m.

Police in a number of patrol cars went to the area to find the car, and it was spotted on Interstate 95, traveling in the northbound lanes. Stamford police Officer Richard Dabrowski tried to pull the vehicle over, but it didn’t stop, and Stamford police pursued it.