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Sometime before 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31 (when she reported it to police), a woman noticed that her bike was missing from the garage at her home on Fairfield Avenue. She’d last seen the bicycle a week before, on Oct. 25. She didn’t know of any suspicious activity in the meantime, and there didn’t seem to be any evidence left behind.
Two bicycles were stolen at the Noroton Heights Railroad Station on Tuesday, June 26. The lock that had been used to fasten one of them was left behind and intact; a chain used to fasten the other was missing, Darien police said. Police gave this additional information:
Both bicycles had been secured to a bike rack on the northern side of the station (the Heights Road side). One of the bikes, a Larkspur brand valued at $430, was left there at about 7:30 a.m. and noticed missing, along with its chain, when the owner returned at 7:30 p.m.
The other bicycle, a Diamondback brand valued at $700, had been left at the station at 2 p.m. The owner used a lock to fasten the front wheel to the bike rack. When the owner returned at 4:43 p.m., it was gone.
From 11:35 a.m. to 11:52 p.m., a thief removed two bicycles, both locked, from each of Darien’s two train stations, according to surveillance video records, police said. In those 17 minutes, the man stole property valued at a total of $1,400 by the separate owners. Darien police describe the thief as a stocky black male who was wearing a white tee shirt and blue jeans, and with a black backpack. At the Noroton Heights Station
At 7:46 p.m., a man told police that his wife left a bicycle valued at $900 at the station for him to use. She left it there at about 8:30 p.m., secured to a rack by a lock and chain, but it was gone when arrived at the station just before 7:46 p.m.
The surveillance video record indicated the man stole the bike at 11:35 a.m.
At the Darien Station
At 8:19 p.m., police received the second call from a man who said his bike was stolen at the Darien station, where he had left it at 5:30 a.m. and returned to find it missing at 7:30 p.m. He estimated the value of the bicycle at $500.