Public Safety
Police: Man Stole from 18 Mailboxes, Caught After Foot Chase
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A 34-year-old man who was seen going into mailboxes on Linden Avenue on Saturday was later spotted by a police officer, who chased him in downtown Noroton Heights and used a taser gun in order to arrest him, police said. Darien police gave this account (with accusations not proven in court) of how Jonathan McIver was arrested:
At 6:22 p.m., a Purchase, N.Y. man called police to say a man going through various mailboxes on the street. The caller, who was waiting to pick up his children from a home on Linden Avenue, gave police a very detailed description of what the man looked like: a black man with wire glasses; wearing dark pants; a dark, hooded sweatshirt and orange sneakers. The man was last seen on Hollow Tree Ridge Road near the entrance to Avalon Darien, across the street from the Noroton Heights Railroad Station. Police looked but didn’t see the suspect at first — until an officer driving through the south side of the train station parking lot spotted a man matching the description on the platform on the other side of the tracks.