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SUV Parked in Driveway Overnight Vandalized by Paint Balls

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A Queens Lane resident told police that his 2018 Volvo XC90 was hit by one or more paint balls sometime overnight from Friday to Saturday, Sept. 13 to 14. White paint covered the front end of the sport utility vehicle, which had been backed into the driveway. Another vehicle in the driveway was untouched. The house is in the traffic circle at the end of Queens Lane, a road off of Old Kings Highway South.

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Another Swastika Found at Middlesex: School Assembly on Diversity and Name-Calling Announced

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For the second time in a week, graffiti featuring a swastika was found at Middlesex Middle School, this time in a restroom stall, school Principal Shelley Somers announced in an email to parents. The graffiti was found sometime today, Monday, in the morning. A Darien police detective took a picture and documented the graffiti, which also included a Star of David. “As part of our ongoing school-wide Social and Emotional Learning, I am scheduling an assembly with the Anti-Defamation League,” Somers told parents. The goal of the assembly is partly “to develop a common language for discussing issues of diversity, name-calling and bullying,” as well as to “provide a forum in which students will feel safe to speak out about issues of diversity, bullying and name-calling.”

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Surveillance Camera Identifies Pool Hopping Teens, No Evidence They Vandalized a Fountain

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Three of four teenage boys were identified by a surveillance camera as pool hoppers using a swimming pool and leaving garbage, including beer cans, on the property of a home over a two week period, Darien police said. A fountain on the property had also been damaged, but police didn’t have evidence to charge anyone with that, and the boys denied they had anything to do with it, police said. Darien police provided this additional information about the matter, including accusations not proven in court:

The groundskeeper of a property on the 500 block of Middlesex Road, across the street from the town’s Highland Farm property, contacted police at 8:48 a.m., Saturday, July 27. He said that for the previous two weeks someone had been using the swimming pool and leaving garbage on the property. He also said damage had been done to a piece of a fountain on the grounds.

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Darien Junior Sailing Storage Trailer at Weed Beach Entered and Vandalized

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Sometime overnight from Sunday to Monday, June 16 to 17, a storage trailer at Weed Beach by the Darien Junior Sailing Team was entered and vandalized inside. It was the second time in two weeks that the trailer had been entered, Darien police were told. About two weeks before, entry was made by climbing on top of the trailer and damaging a roof vent, then going inside through the vent. A child, or someone with the maturity of a child, wrote obscenities on the inside walls with a blue marker.