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House Burglarized on Maple Street Saturday Night, Jewelry and Cash Taken

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A man returning to his Maple Street home at about 11 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20 found it had been ransacked, with cash and jewelry missing from the master bedroom, police said. Darien police gave this account of what happened:

When the man, who had been working that evening, returned home, he found the back door of the house unlocked and rooms ransacked. He immediately got out of the house and called police at 11:16 p.m.

Police found that most of the house had been riffled through, and there were several attempted points of entry. It appeared that the home had been entered through a bedroom window and the back door was used to leave.

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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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Resident Suspects Attempt at House Burglary: Item Moved, Damage to Window Trim

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When she saw a flower pot near a window moved and the trim around the window damaged in a minor way, a Maple Street resident concluded that someone tried to get into her home and told police about it. The attempted burglary would have been sometime between 3 and 11 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21, the woman told police the next day. She said she also noticed that the window was closed after she had left it open. Police noted that a computer was in clear view of the window, but it hadn’t been disturbed. When police asked neighbors whether or not they’d seen, heard or knew of anything suspicious, none said they had.

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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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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.  

 

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Home on Hollow Tree Ridge Road Burglarized

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Doors were left open after a Hollow Tree Ridge Road house was burglarized, but the burglary wasn’t discovered until several hours after a resident arrived back home, and despite a neighbor noticing doors open, police said. Jewelry was taken, but the resident was still compiling a list at the time the police report was written up. Darien police described the burglary this way:

Residents were away from the home on the “600 block” of the street for days from Dec. 27 to Tuesday, Jan. 3, when a woman who lives at the house arrived there at about 8 p.m.

On Monday, Jan.