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On Revere Road, a group of teenagers was seen checking whether cars were locked, at about 1:30 a.m., Saturday, police said. That night when several cars at different spots in town were entered and some items were stolen from them. A witness gave police the license plate number of the SUV the teens used when they left. Four teenagers were later arrested in Clinton early the same morning — inside the same SUV, which had been stolen in New Haven, according to police. Darien police gave this description of the various incidents that night, including accusations which haven’t been proven in court (and without charges yet filed by Darien police against anyone):

The first report of a vehicle being entered during that overnight period came from the owner of a 2018 Mitsubishi Outback, which was parked at 14 Midbrook Lane at 7:30 p.m.

By 11:30 p.m., the owner returned to the SUV to find that a backpack valued at $50 was missing, along with a U.S. passport.

An unlocked sport utility vehicle with its keys left inside was stolen from the driveway of 19 Sylvan Road on Sunday, Nov. 25, police were told by the owner, who was visiting a friend. Darien police gave these additional details about the incident and the following other recent incidents involving thieves entering vehicles in town:
NOV 25 — 19 SYLVAN RD

The SUV, a 2011 BMW X5, was last seen in the driveway at about 9 p.m., the victim told police. She said that by 11:45 p.m., not three hours later, she realized it was missing. Inside the SUV was a pocketbook in which she had her driver’s license, bank cards, about $1,000 in jewelry and $300 in cash.

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Sometime between 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13 and 8 a.m., the next morning, a black 2013 Ford Explorer, unlocked and parked outside, was entered, police said. The glove box and center console were each opened and rifled through. The SUV was unlocked. Other vehicles parked outside the house at 170 Raymond St.

Along with the normal thefts from unlocked vehicles overnight, 10 thank-y0u cards were taken from a mailbox sometime overnight from Monday to Tuesday, Oct. 8 to 9 — all but one in the same area of town. The thefts, all reported Tuesday morning, occurred on Middlesex Road, Noroton Avenue and Edgerton Street. A locked vehicle in the same driveway as one of the thefts was untouched, police pointed out. Also: Darien police also report that during the past week Darien police responded to 10 motor vehicle accidents, of which three involved minor injuries.

Overnight Thursday to Friday, Aug. 2 to 3, three unlocked vehicles parked outside homes in Noroton were entered, two on Garden City Road and a third just three blocks away on Crimmins Road, police said. The owner of a green 2017 Jaguar F-Type, parked outside 16 Garden City Road, noticed that the vehicle had been entered and rummaged through and called police at 6:16 a.m., Friday. Nothing seemed to be missing. The owner thought she had locked the car when it was parked the day before, but there were no signs of forced entry.

Police Chief Ray Osborne recently responded to questions from Darien Police Commission Chairman J. Paul Johnson about the pattern typically followed by thieves stealing from vehicles Darien drivers leave unlocked outside overnight. “We’ve had some success in making arrests,” Osborne said. “The Detective Division is working very hard on this latest rash, and we do have some viable leads on that. We’ll be following up as best we can.” “Do we have any idea whether this is a kind of planned group that is doing this, or just individuals?”

Five unlocked vehicles were entered, with items taken from some of them, on Hickory Lane and nearby Deepwood Road overnight from Monday to Tuesday, and one of them was stolen, police said. That same night, three other unlocked vehicles, along with another that appears to have been unlocked were entered at various other locations in town. Bridgeport police found the car and arrested two early the next morning. Darien police described the incidents this way:
Hickory Lane and Deepwood Road
16 Hickory Lane — Car Stolen

At 7:38 a.m., Tuesday, police were told that a silver 2015 Lexus IS 350, parked unlocked and with the keys inside, had been stolen sometime beteen 8:45 p.m. Monday night, July 16. A set of golf clubs valued at $1,700 was inside the car. Police checking the area found a small case with a name on it.

At 7:06 a.m.. on Saturday, the owner of a gray 2018 Honda Pilot told police that the SUV had been stolen from his driveway at 45 Phillips Lane, a road off of Hoyt Street. The man had parked the vehicle, with a pair of Ryban sunglasses valued at $200 in it, at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, July 14. The SUV also had two sets of its keys in it. At about 7 a.m. he saw the vehicle was missing.

Four vehicles were stolen overnight, Saturday to Sunday, July 7 to 8, three of them in Noroton on or near the Post Road, and other vehicles had been found entered in the same area, police said. One of the vehicles was later driven by a teenager without a driver’s license and was chased by Greenwich police before the car smashed into and severed a utility pole, which also caused extensive damage to the car, Greenwich police said. The driver and another teenager, 16, were charged by police, who did not report that any injuries resulted. Darien police gave these accounts of what happened:
Four Stolen Vehicles
7 Fitch Ave., Wild Ride Results in Crash
A Stamford woman who was house sitting left her keys in her gray 2004 Volvo XC70 when she parked in the driveway at about 9 p.m. on Saturday. At about 8:30 the next morning, she found her car was gone.

After a Fitch Avenue resident left a silver 2016 Honda CRV, unlocked and with the key fob in it, in the home’s driveway Thursday night, it was stolen, but a thief and the car were found before dawn, Darien police said. Darien police gave this account of what happened, including accusations not proven in court (we’ve added information at 6:31 p.m., in italics below, directly from a Greenwich police report, replacing a report from Darien Patch, which had cited it; the initial time of the incident has been changed to reflect the Greenwich police report):

At about 3:34 a.m., Greenwich police were dispatched to the Ocean View Avenue area in the Byram section of town (near I-95 Exit 2) on a report of a suspicious vehicle. The vehicle fled onto Interstate 95, on the southbound-traffic side, headed toward New York state. Police did not pursue it. About 20 minutes later, police spotted the SUV again, this time on East Putnam Avenue near Sheephill Road in Greenwich (near I-95 Exit 5).

Across town, Darienites who didn’t lock their car or sport utility vehicles overnight found out between about June 14 and the early morning of June 19 that the vehicles had been entered overnight, police said. Sometimes items were taken, and on Alpine Lane, where there was a report of suspicious males early one morning, an SUV stolen from Stamford was found not far from where other vehicles had been entered. Alpine and Edelweiss Lanes, Monday to Tuesday
Two of the vehicles were entered on Alpine Lane or Edelweiss Lane overnight from Monday to Tuesday, June 18 to 19. That’s the same area where two vehicles were entered overnight from the previous Friday to Saturday (among 10 entered across town that night). In the previous cases, one vehicle was on Echo Drive, the other on 7 Alpine Lane — right next door to one entered at 5 Alpine Lane overnight on Monday to Tuesday.

The owner of a white 2013 Acura told police he left it unlocked overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, May 9 to 10 outside his home at 6 Raymond St. when someone entered it. When the man entered the car at 2 p.m. on Thursday, he found the glove box and center console had been opened, and their contents strewn across the front seats. The incident was reported to police at 2:59 p.m.

Nothing appeared to be missing and there was no damage to the vehicle.

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Darien police say a woman told them Wednesday not only that she had not locked her car when she parked at Stony Brook Park on Ledge Road, but that she’d left her purse in it — containing cash totaling $12,000. The purse and the money were gone when she got back to the car, she told police. Here’s how police described what she told them:

At about 4:30 p.m., she parked her blue 2015 Subaru XV in the small lot at the park, then left. When she got back to the car at about 5:40 p.m., her purse, left on the front passenger seat, was gone. Along with the money, there were several credit cards, also gone.

The owner of a blue 2017 BMW X3 told police that his unlocked SUV had been entered sometime between 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 and just before 10:31 a.m. Thursday, March 23, when he called police. The vehicle had been parked outside overnight near 106 Old Kings Hwy. South. The glove box and center console had each been left open, but nothing appeared to be missing, the owner told police.

Of course they were all unlocked. Every last one of them. Overnight from Sunday to Monday, March 11 to 12, two vehicles were stolen from streets off of Middlesex Road near Stamford and four vehicles in other parts of town were entered. This article also has information on two previous entries into motor vehicles that the owners believed had been left unlocked. Here are the details, according to Darien police.

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