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Jewelry valued at $35,000 was stolen from a jewelry box in the closet of a home on Sylvan Road where the owner has been leaving the outside doors unlocked to allow easy access for numerous workers — carpenters, painters and cleaners. And now, apparently, a thief. The theft was reported to police on Nov. 20. The victim said she had last seen the jewelry on Nov.
In one of two daytime burglaries reported to Darien police last week, various items of women’s jewelry were taken from a home on Nickerson Lane. The theft took place sometime between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12 (Columbus Day), and there was no forcible entry, so the house is believed to have been entered through an unlocked door. The last person to leave the home that day was gone by 10 a.m. The victim’s husband came back at 1:30 p.m. for about 30 minutes, but never went to the bedroom where the jewelry was stolen. Both husband and wife got back home at 5:30 p.m.
Various pieces of women’s jewelry and a jewelry box that had been sitting on the victim’s dresser are missing, although some pieces of jewelry were left behind.
A woman living on Knollwood Lane returned home on Tuesday, Oct. 13, to find empty jewelry boxes strewn on bedroom floors and jewelry worth thousands of dollars now gone. The woman had left for work that morning at 5:30 and didn’t return until 5:35 p.m. and soon discovered the theft. Her husband, who works from home, was there for most of the day but he left between noon and 1:30 p.m. without locking the outside doors. He left again for a time after 4:45 p.m. and locked the doors but didn’t set the alarm.
An elderly Darien couple who left their doors unlocked (and at least one open) got back from a short trip to a store to find two teenagers running away from their house and jewelry valued at $40,000 missing from the master bedroom, police said. The couple, residents of Greenleaf Avenue, told police at 4 p.m. Saturday that they’d left the house at about 3:30 p.m. for a quick trip to a store. Not only were the doors to the house unlocked, the front door was left open and the screen door unlocked. When they got back, they saw two male teenagers running away from the house toward nearby Christie Hill Road. Nothing appeared to be out of place until they got to the master bedroom.