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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.
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. _____________
See also:
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:
Old Farm Road
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.
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:
Arrowhead Way
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.
Darien police have charged two teenagers with burglarizing a house on Holmes Court last April and stealing cash and electronic items from it. Here’s the Darien police announcement (police accusations are not proof of guilt):
The Darien Police Department investigated a residential burglary on Holmes Court on April 20, 2016. It was determined that suspects entered the residence through an unlocked door and removed various electronics and cash. Due to the close proximity to the city border, detectives notified the Stamford Police Property Crime Unit to make them aware of the incident. The following day the Stamford detectives contacted Darien Police and advised that they had two burglary suspects in custody that matched the description of the Holmes Court burglary suspects. Darien Police Detectives then interviewed 18 year old Deandre Parsons of 7 Lewelyn St.