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Two House Burglaries: One at North End of Town and Another in Tokeneke

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Two more house burglaries were reported to Darien police in the past week, with one of them in Tokeneke, where three burglaries had been reported two weekends ago. Darien police said that unlike the three previous break-ins, they don’t have a suspect and they have no clear indication yet that the two more recent burglaries were perpetrated by the same burglar or burglars. _____________

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A Gun Among Items Stolen in Three Tokeneke House Burglaries on July 4th Weekend (July 12)

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One occurred the previous weekend on Tower Drive, a street off of Mansfield Avenue (that burglary happend sometime before 1 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, the weekend that the three Tokeneke burglaries occurred); the most recent break-in took place just this weekend on Old Farm Road in Tokeneke. For each investigation, police asked neighbors if they had noticed anything suspicious, but no one reported hearing or seeing anything unusual. Police gave these accounts of the break-ins:
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At 12:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, residents reported to police that they had just returned home from a weekend trip and found the house had been broken into.

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A Gun Among Items Stolen in Three Tokeneke House Burglaries on July 4th Weekend

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A small safe containing a gun was among the items stolen from one of three Tokeneke houses burglarized over Independence Day weekend, police said. “We do have a suspect we’re working on,” Darien Police Chief Duane Lovello said at the Wednesday afternoon meeting of the Police Commission, as previously reported by Darienite.com. “We think he may be hitting the area — throughout the lower Fairfield County area.”

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— See also: Three Homes Burglarized in Tokeneke Over Independence Day Weekend (July 8)

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All three burglaries appeared to have happened at night, he said. Darien police gave this account of the incidents, which all seem to have taken place sometime between July 1-5:

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The homeowner left at 6:30 p.m., Friday, July 1 and returned by 7:20 p.m., Tuesday, July 5 to find numerous items stolen from the master bedroom and the master bathroom. The homeowner first noticed drawers in a desk opened and some ransacking in the master bedroom.

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Three Homes Burglarized in Tokeneke Over Independence Day Weekend

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Three houses in the Tokeneke section of town were burglarized over the Independence Day weekend, Police Chief Duane Lovello recently told the Darien Police Commission. In only one case was entry into a home forced — a window was smashed, Lovello said. Nothing is known to have been taken in that burglary. “We do have a suspect we’re working on,” Lovello said at the Wednesday afternoon meeting of the Police Commission. “We think he may be hitting the area — throughout the lower Fairfield County area.”