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As one man distracted an elderly woman who didn’t speak English, two other men entered her home and stole foreign currency, Darien police said. Police released details this week about the distraction burglary that occurred Sept. 28 on Herman Avenue . At about 11 a.m., the woman was working in the front yard when she was approached by a man who began talking to her. She did not give police a detailed description of him.
A resident of Herman Avenue was recently victimized by at least three individuals in a “distraction burglary” in which a thief enters a house while others hold the attention of the victim, a Darien police official said. “The Detective Bureau is investigating that in conjunction with a couple of other similar-type burglaries that happened in the City of Norwalk,” Capt. Raymond Osborne told the Police Commission at its regular meeting on Tuesday. “We’re trying to see if there’s a link there,” he said. Osborne gave out no further details, and the commission soon went into executive session. More information is expected Monday at the department’s regular news briefing.
Two men knocked on the back door of an elderly Darien woman’s home on Brown Street and told her she seemed to need a roof repair, so she let one of the men go upstairs in her home to check for leaks, police said. What often results from that scenario is that victims later find something stolen from their home and the purported repairmen are never seen again — but nothing seems to have been taken this time, according to police. The resident, who is 82 years old, first heard the front doorbell ring late last Saturday afternoon. But as she was walking over to answer it, she heard a knock on the back door, and opened it to find the two men. After she let one of the men upstairs, as the other talked with her (an essential part of a distraction burglary), the man came back downstairs and she told them both that they’d have to return later in order to do any repairs.