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Mailboxes new anti-theft Darien Post Office

Twice last week, town residents who mailed checks from the mailboxes for outgoing mail at Darien Post Office found that their checks had been stolen, altered to increase the amount and made out to people the residents had never heard of. Police, who are still investigating the thefts, gave these further details:

In July, a woman mailed a check there. On Aug. 25, she discovered the fraud and reported it to police. On Aug.

New Canaan Police on Saturday arrested four New York City residents in the same minivan where police found 30 pieces of stolen mail, including checks worth $45,000. The four were stopped by police in a minivan on Jelliff Mill Road, close to the Darien border. In the van was mail from homes in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. The police announcement didn’t say whether any Darien mail was found. — an article from NewCanaanite.com

New Canaan police gave this account of what happened, including accusations not proven in court:

At about 10:47 a.m. on Saturday, Feb.

A man who put a check in his own mailbox on Richmond Drive on Jan. 29 told police that it had been cashed for a much larger amount and to somebody he didn’t know, police said. The man called Darien police on Feb. 9, after he saw his bank statement and noticed the discrepancy. Other recent reports of checks stolen from mailboxes in town:

—Check From Another Mailbox in Darien Stolen, Washed, Fraudulently Cashed (Feb.

Sometime in the last week of January, a check was stolen from a Brookside Road resident’s mailbox, then washed, a larger amount of money written on it and a different payee, then cashed, Darien police said. According to police:

The victim said he put an envelope containing the check in his mailbox on Jan. 26. Then, on Feb. 1, he looked at his bank statement, which showed the check was cashed for a larger amount and made payable to someone he didn’t know.

In the latest cases of mailbox thefts, checks were stolen before mail carriers picked them up, then the checks were washed and higher amounts added that were given to people with different names, police said. A check put in an envelope placed in a home mailbox on Bittersweet Lane was stolen, washed, rewritten and fraudulently cashed, police said. The victim told police he put the envelope in his home mailbox on Jan. 9. He noticed on Jan.

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Two envelopes, each holding a check, were stolen Monday, Jan. 10, from the mailbox outside a home on Bittersweet Lane, a man told Darien police. The man spoke to police early that afternoon and said he put both envelopes in his mailbox at about 7:30 a.m. that day. At 9:30 a.m., he noticed the mailbox door was open, which seemed suspicious to him. He called his mail carrier directly, police said they were told, and the mail carrier said the mail on that street hadn’t been picked up yet.