Stolen Motor Vehicles 2019

Motor Vehicle Entered Overnight on Oakshade Ave, Nov 23 to 24, Expensive Item Taken

Unlocked Pickup Entered Overnight Last Weekend

In Three Nights, Four Vehicles Stolen in Darien, 11 Others Entered — All 15 Unlocked

Car Unlocked, Key Inside — the Ultimate in Convenience for Thief Who Stole It

Unlocked Minivan Stolen from Darien Train Station Parking Lot on Sept 25 or 26

Man Parks Unlocked Jeep With Key in It in Train Station Lot With Inevitable Result

Mercedes Stolen at Darien Railroad Station Parking Lot: Victim’s Son Said He Locked It

Five Unlocked Vehicles Entered in the Same Night in Same Area of Noroton, One Car Stolen

Police: An Unusual Report and an Incorrect One Result in Cops, Guns in Hand, Confronting Yankees GM Brian Cashman in Downtown Darien

Police Release Image of Male Suspected of Looking for Loot in Motor Vehicle

Five Stolen Vehicles, 14 Total Entered on Various Nights Last Week

Late Model Mercedes SUV Stolen — Left Apparently Unlocked, With Keys In It, Later Recovered

Unlocked Porsche with Keys Inside Pilfered, Then Found in Newark, NJ

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An unlocked 2020 Buick Enclave parked outside a home on Oakshade Avenue was entered sometime overnight from Saturday to Sunday, Nov. 23 to 24, Darien police were told. According to police:

Two $10 bills were taken from the glove box, along with an iPhone charger valued at $20 and a pair of Tom Ford sunglasses valued at $400. The victim initially didn’t think anything had been stolen, so didn’t report it to police the incident until Monday afternoon, Nov. 25.

An unlocked 2016 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck was entered sometime overnight from Saturday to Sunday, Nov. 23 to 24. Items in the glove box and center console were disturbed but nothing appeared to be missing from the truck, parked outside 15 Oakshade Ave. Police were told about the incident early Sunday evening. See Also:

In Three Nights, Four Vehicles Stolen in Darien, 11 Others Entered — All 15 Unlocked (Nov.

Four vehicles were stolen and another vehicle stolen from elsewhere was left in town sometime overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Nov. 13 to 14, and on that night, the night before and on the night of Nov. 15 to 16, another 11 vehicles were entered. All but one of the 15 Darien vehicles were unlocked, and the locked vehicle was found with an open rear window. Three of the four stolen vehicles had their keys in them (it isn’t obvious how the fourth one was stolen).

Approaching a 2012 Toyota Prius parked outside overnight from Oct. 27 to 28 at 28 Edgewood Road, a thief found not only that the car was unlocked but that the key fob inside it allowed the car itself to be stolen, not just whatever was inside. The owner, whether on purpose or not, did what many Darien car owners do. The thief did what thieves do. Several days later, Bridgeport police found the car on Pennsylvania Avenue.

When the owner of a 2011 Toyota Sienna parked the minivan in a Darien Railroad Station parking lot at 33 West Ave. at about 5 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 25, he left it unlocked. When he found that it wasn’t there on his return at about 7 p.m., Thursday, he realized that there may have been a spare key inside. He reported the matter to police at 8:31.

At 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 26, a man parked his 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee in a parking lot at Noroton Heights Railroad Station, with the key in the vehicle, which was unlocked. The inevitable happened at about 7:45 p.m., when the man, returning from work on the train, found that the Jeep was no longer where it had been parked. At 8:05 p.m., he reported the matter to police.

A Darien man’s 2018 Mercedes S560 was used by his son and parked in the Darien Train Station lot on Sunday, Aug. 11. When the man came to pick up the car on Tuesday night, however, it was gone. Here’s how police described what happened:

The man’s son parked the car in the station lot at 7:30 p.m. He left the keys inside and locked the car (knowing his father had a second set of keys for it), then boarded a train to New York City. At 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, the father arrived at the lot but couldn’t find the car.

Google Maps four vehicles entered overnight same neighborhood 8/11-12/19

From Sunday night to Monday morning, Aug. 11 to 12, unlocked cars parked outside overnight at homes on various streets near the southern end of Hollow Tree Ridge Road (south of Interstate 95) were entered, police said. One car, left not only unlocked but with the keys inside, was stolen from Wilson Ridge Road East. The car was found by Norwalk police several days later, so damaged that it couldn’t be driven. Elsewhere in town, similar incidents took place in an overlapping time period: Sometime from Sunday night to Tuesday, a car was stolen from a railroad parking lot on West Avenue near the Darien Railroad station and a house on Old Farm Road was entered and items were strewn about in a bedroom.

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When Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman was at a gas station in downtown Darien on Friday, police said, he was confronted by multiple police officers, their guns in hand, who had been told the white Jeep he was driving had been stolen. In fact, he was driving his own vehicle, which had been returned to him after it had been stolen — but information that he again had his Jeep Wrangler, which had been taken in Norwalk, wasn’t in the notification system to other police agencies, according to Darien police. That was only one of two reports that led to the confrontation. Police were on the look-out for a white Jeep-like vehicle after a report from a Darien doctor’s office that a patient there had walked in with a gun — and left in a white vehicle that either was or looked like a Jeep. Darien Police Capt. Donald Anderson, who has been appointed to become police chief as of Sept.

Surveillance video suspected thief in vehicle

“DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?” Darien police ask in a post on Facebook. Images from a video show a young man or teenager both inside and outside a vehicle in the driveway at night. The time stamp on the video indicates the suspect was in what appears to be a sport utility vehicle at 1:06 a.m., Sunday, June 30 (assuming the time stamp is correct). “The victim of a motor vehicle burglary in town was able to provide the Darien police with these great surveillance images of the criminal thanks to their home-surveillance equipment,” the Friday morning post said.

Darien police, who had previously announced that five vehicles had been stolen last week, and a total of 11 entered, on Tuesday provided details about those incidents and three more over the weekend. All of the vehicles appear to have been unlocked, and the stolen ones also had keys inside. In almost all cases, the thefts seem to have occurred overnight. Darien police included a statement again reminding residents to lock their cars, and provided some additional information about the problem of unlocked vehicles (published here at the bottom of the article). Five Vehicles Stolen
Darien Railroad Station—Daytime—Tuesday, July 2
A 2019 Land Rover Valar was stolen from the lot nearest the eastbound tracks (the side next to Dunkin Donuts).

A 2018 Mercedes GLS450 SUV, apparently unlocked and (the owner believes) with the keys left inside, was stolen sometime overnight Thursday to Friday, May 16 to 17, Darien police said. The owner told police he parked the car in front of his house at 48 Country Club Road, off of Hoyt Street, near the Merritt Parkway) at about 8 p.m., Thursday, then, at 7:30 a.m., found it was missing. But not for long. The SUV was found almost 11 miles away, off the southbound-traffic lanes on the Merritt Parkway in Greenwich, near Exit 28. It had run out of gas.

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The owner of a 2015 Porsche Cayenne left the keys inside and the car unlocked in his driveway at 7 North Road when he was away for several days, only to find it missing on his return, he told police. Darien police provided this further account:

The man said he last saw the car on Thursday, Dec. 27. He returned home on Jan. 3, exactly a week later, to find the car missing.