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Police: Man, 35, Drove Stolen Darien Car Into Greenwich, Where He Burglarized Cars

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When a 35-year-old man drove into Greenwich and entered vehicles sometime overnight Thursday into Friday, Aug. 24 and 25, even the car he rode in on was stolen, according to police. Greenwich police gave this account of what happened (including accusations not proven in court), according to the Greenwich Free Press:

Kurt Vanzuuk of Pacific Street, Stamford, drove to Greenwich in a Nissan previously stolen in Darien, then he started entering several vehicles, as well as an occupied home. Items that may have been loot from the thefts was found on him and in the car. At 5 a.m., a Greenwich man called police in that town to tell them he’d seen a man going into cars at the side of his house.

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UPDATE: Police: Two Burglars Caught After Darien Homeowner Snaps Pic of Their Van and License Plate

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A resourceful homeowner who heard suspicious noises, saw a man looking into her house and a van parked in the driveway, snapped a picture of the license plate, which led to the arrest of two men — who had loot from a previous burglary in the van, police said. Darien police gave this account (including a 2:45 p.m. update from Norwalk Police in italics) of the incident and arrest, including accusations not proven in court:

At about 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17, a woman was home alone in her house on McCrea Lane and heard the doorbell ring several times. She also heard noise coming from the first floor. She looked out the window and saw a white van she didn’t recognize parked in the driveway.

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Burglar Gets Through Open Garage Window, Confronted by Resident

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A resident of a home on Pleasant Street yelled a burglar rummaging around in a vehicle parked in the garage late at night on Saturday, Feb. 21, then locked the door leading into the house and called police. When police arrived, the burglar was gone, out the open window that had been used to get into the garage. Police found a bicycle stuck half-way out the window, apparently in an attempt to steal it as the burglar fled. The incident occurred during a week when unlocked vehicles were being entered by thieves overnight in the same area.

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Car Entered Overnight as It Sat in Garage of Red Rose Circle Home

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Sometime Overnight from Sunday to Monday, Jan. 8 to 9, a car parked overnight in the garage of a house on Red Rose Circle was entered, Darien police were told. The owner of the 2014 Audi Q5 said his wife parked it in the garage at 9 p.m. and thought she’d locked the overhead garage door and the door from the garage to the house. At about 7:30 a.m., the man, 37, noticed that the overhead garage door was open and the car’s glove box was open, its contents on the seat. It didn’t seem to the victim that anything was missing.

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Home on Delafield Island Road Burglarized

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On Monday, while homeowners of a Delafield Island Road home were away last weekend, a house sitter discovered that the house had been burglarized, Darien police said. The burglary would have occurred sometime between noon on Friday, Jan. 13 and Monday, just before 10 a.m., when the sitter — who had spent time on the first floor, but not on the second — took something upstairs, only to find bedrooms and an office ransacked. The house is in the area of the intersection of Delafield Island Road and Tory Hole Road. The sitter recalled that on Friday or Saturday the front coat closet was opened, which seemed odd — but the sitter didn’t think anything more about it and closed the door.

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Andrews Drive House Burglarized — Front Door Smashed In

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When police arrived at the front of an Andrews Drive home a little after 8:42 p.m. on Friday, they saw the front door had been split open, with the door’s deadbolt lock still intact and attached to the frame. But it appeared nothing was disturbed inside the home — police suspect the burglar or burglars who broke in were scared when the alarm sounded. At about 8:15 p.m., the alarm company had called a relative of the couple who live there (and who were away from home); he went to the house and called police.