Unlocked in Darien

UPDATE: 4 Arrests After 14 Cars Entered Overnight, Four Stolen in Noroton Bay Area, Three Found Again

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$780 in Cash Reported Stolen from Unlocked Pickup Truck with Windows Rolled Down

Boy’s Unlocked Bicycle Stolen at Darien Library

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Seven Darien Police Officers Commended for Arresting Vehicle Burglary Suspects

Two Teens Charged with Burglarizing House on Holmes Court

Two Stamford Teens Charged with Burglarizing 10 Vehicles in Darien

Noroton Residents Report Thefts from SUV, Mailbox

$35K in Jewelry Stolen from House on Sylvan Rd Left Unlocked for ‘Numerous’ Workers

Two Unlocked SUVs Entered on Hollow Tree Ridge Road

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Police Darien Police Lock Your Car Every Time

— See update, marked at bottom of article —

At least 14 unlocked vehicles parked at homes in the Noroton Bay neighborhood were entered overnight, possibly by teenagers or young men from Hartford looking to steal nice cars for joy riding, Darien police said. Four vehicles with keys left inside them were taken sometime before dawn Monday morning, with one found around the corner from where it was parked, two others found (by 1 p.m.) in Hartford and the fourth still missing, police said. At about 1 p.m., Darien police learned from Hartford police that officers in that city stopped one of the vehicles with three young men or teenagers in it, and charges are expected to be filed against at least one of them. Darien police described the matter with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

Police believe the car thieves are among a group of teenagers or young men in a Hartford neighborhood who repeatedly go to upscale neighborhoods to find fancier cars to steal and ride around in before abandoning them in an area of Hartford. City police found a number of abandoned, stolen vehicles, including a BMW X5 sport utility vehicle stolen from Noroton Bay Monday morning.

A small safe containing a gun was among the items stolen from one of three Tokeneke houses burglarized over Independence Day weekend, police said. “We do have a suspect we’re working on,” Darien Police Chief Duane Lovello said at the Wednesday afternoon meeting of the Police Commission, as previously reported by Darienite.com. “We think he may be hitting the area — throughout the lower Fairfield County area.”

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— See also: Three Homes Burglarized in Tokeneke Over Independence Day Weekend (July 8)

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All three burglaries appeared to have happened at night, he said. Darien police gave this account of the incidents, which all seem to have taken place sometime between July 1-5:

Arrowhead Way

The homeowner left at 6:30 p.m., Friday, July 1 and returned by 7:20 p.m., Tuesday, July 5 to find numerous items stolen from the master bedroom and the master bathroom. The homeowner first noticed drawers in a desk opened and some ransacking in the master bedroom.

Two vehicles, apparently both unlocked, were entered in Woodway Country Club parking lots, and credit cards taken from one of them were used before either of the victims realized the thefts had taken place, police said. Police say they’ve been examining a surveillance video recording of the parking lot from when the crimes took place late in the afternoon of Wednesday, June 29 at the club, located at 412 Hoyt St. In one case, a 2014 Jeep Limited, inadvertently left unlocked along the pond side of a parking lot, was entered when it was parked there from 2 to 4:45 p.m. Police said the thief was caught on surveillance camera at about 4:15 p.m. entering the cars. The victim, a 59-year-old New Canaan woman, said she didn’t realize anything had been taken until she received a call the next day from her bank asking her about some transactions. Police said nothing was reported stolen other than credit and debit cards.

Darien police say they’ve received two more reports of vehicles that may have been burglarized on the same night that police arrested five boys for entering about a dozen others in the southwest corner of town. A resident of Concord Lane and a resident of Glenwood Road each reported that vehicles were entered. Their reports join others on Glenwood Road, Anthony Lane and Hollow Tree Ridge Road from the incident overnight from Friday to Saturday, June 18 to 19. In every single case, the cars entered were unlocked. In one of the two latest reports, a Glenwood Drive resident said three vehicles parked outside the house were entered.

A man on his way to a construction site at a home on Raiders Lane had to park his pickup truck on Red Coat Pass near Tory Hole Road because some paving work was blocking the way. And that’s the last the 40-year-old Stamford man ever saw of the $780 he left bundled with some credit cards on the front seat of the unlocked pickup truck — that he left with windows open, he told police. His credit cards were left in the pickup truck, a 1990 Ford Ranger. The incident was reported to police at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 15. A 35-year-old flagman for the paving project told police he had a clear view of the parked truck and had been working at the site since about 6:45 a.m. He said he didn’t recall when the truck was parked there, and a lot of people had walked by that spot throughout the morning.

A 14-year-old Darien boy left his bicycle at the bike rack near the book dropoff behind Darien Library at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 18. When his father came to pick him up at 1:30 p.m., the bicycle was gone. The bike is a black and gray Cannondale hybrid Quick 5 valued at $700. It had a headlight attached to the handlebar. Police asked around the area if anyone had seen the bicycle taken away, but no one had.

Five teenagers ranging in age from 15 to 17 years old were arrested on burglary charges early Saturday morning after an Anthony Lane resident called police to say that they seemed to be entering parked vehicles. Police, who got the call at about 5:30 a.m., described the incident and arrest with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

The Anthony Lane resident heard his vehicle’s car alarm go off shortly before he made the call and saw the teenagers in the area. Several police officers went to the area and found the group walking south on Hillside Avenue. They matched the description the resident gave them. All of the teenage boys are from Stamford and range in age from 15 years old (one of them) to 16 (three of them) to 17 (the fifth).

Seven Darien police officers have been commended by Police Chief Duane Lovello for their work in arresting two teenagers accused of overnight thefts from 14 vehicles parked on and around Intervale Road in May. In a memo that Lovello shared with the Police Commission last week, he praised the seven officers for good teamwork in setting up a perimeter and arresting the two after police started getting calls from residents at about 5:30 a.m. on May 4. “The rapid and coordinated response of the officers resulted in a most positive outcome,” Lovello said in his memo. As recounted later that day in Darienite.com, (with quotes from a police news release):
[O]n Devon Road, Officers Daniel Noto and Daniel Gorton found a subject who matched the caller’s description. Police determined the subject, a 17-year-old Stamford boy, was one of the two burglars, and they arrested him.

Original dimensions Deandre Parsons DPD 6-14-16

Darien police have charged two teenagers with burglarizing a house on Holmes Court last April and stealing cash and electronic items from it. Here’s the Darien police announcement (police accusations are not proof of guilt):

The Darien Police Department investigated a residential burglary on Holmes Court on April 20, 2016. It was determined that suspects entered the residence through an unlocked door and removed various electronics and cash. Due to the close proximity to the city border, detectives notified the Stamford Police Property Crime Unit to make them aware of the incident. The following day the Stamford detectives contacted Darien Police and advised that they had two burglary suspects in custody that matched the description of the Holmes Court burglary suspects. Darien Police Detectives then interviewed 18 year old Deandre Parsons of 7 Lewelyn St.

After an early morning phone call Wednesday to police from a woman who said she just saw a neighbor’s vehicle burglarized by two people, Darien police arrested them both. Darien police described the incident today (Wednesday, May 4) with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

A resident of Intervale Road told police at 5:30 a.m. to report the burglary she said she’d just seen. Several officers went to the area. Nearby, on Devon Road, Officers Daniel Noto and Daniel Gorton found a subject who matched the caller’s description. Police determined the subject, a 17-year-old Stamford boy, was one of the two burglars, and they arrested him.

Items delivered and put in or near a mailbox on Wilson Ridge Road were stolen early last week at about the same time that a resident of the Post Road, nearby, found items stolen from her vehicle. Darien police gave this description of the thefts reported to them:

On Wilson Ridge Road

A resident told police she believed that on Tuesday, Dec. 22, UPS delivered a gingerbread house in a small box and an envelope which were then stolen. The UPS delivery man usually leaves the items by or in the mailbox, she said, although she didn’t have UPS tracking information available when she made the report. A woman told the victim that an envelope with the Wilson Ridge home’s address was found on the ground on Hillside Avenue (and that’s when the victim realized items had been stolen).

Jewelry valued at $35,000 was stolen from a jewelry box in the closet of a home on Sylvan Road where the owner has been leaving the outside doors unlocked to allow easy access for numerous workers — carpenters, painters and cleaners. And now, apparently, a thief. The theft was reported to police on Nov. 20. The victim said she had last seen the jewelry on Nov.

Vehicles parked in two different driveways on Hollow Tree Ridge Road were entered overnight between Nov. 6 and 7. Some items were taken from one of them. Both vehicles had been left unlocked. Police gave these descriptions of the incidents:

At 261 Hollow Tree Road, a resident parked a 2014 GMC Yukon at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov.

A suspect has been identified in “at least four” recent vehicle burglaries, Darien Police Chief Duane Lovello told the Police Commission on Wednesday. The suspect was “stopped by the night shift, and they [detectives] will be doing a warrant” for the suspect’s arrest, Lovello said. Lovello may or may not have been referring to a male police stopped on the Post Road, a non-Darien resident was seen riding a bicycle at 12:14 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11 on the Post Road. The male was stopped on the same night items were stolen from two vehicles parked in driveways on Goodwives River Road.

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Sometime overnight from Thursday to Friday, three unlocked cars parked in driveways on Pine Brook Lane were entered and had things taken from them, the victims told police. Of the three vehicles from which things were stolen on the very short street, the latest to be parked in one of the driveways came at 10:10 p.m., and the earliest point that someone found things missing in one of the vehicles was 6 a.m.

On the same night, someone used a rock to smash a passenger window of a vehicle parked on Wakeman Lane, then steal items valued at $1,800 from the vehicle

2014 BMW X3

The owner of a black 2014 BMW X3 was the first to report a theft. The 59-year-old woman came to Police Headquarters at about 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Oc. 16. She told police that shed parked her car in her driveway at 7:50 p.m. Thursday and returned to it at 6 a.m., Friday to find the center console open and a $20 bill and a small amount of loose coins missing from it.