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Car Vandalized Outside Mansfield Ave House

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An overnight visitor at a home on Mansfield Avenue told police that someone had vandalized the BMW he had parked there over the weekend of Oct. 7 to 8, scratching the paint and damaging the left front and back signal lights. Shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8, the 21-year-old man reported the incident to police. He parked the gray 2001 BMW 5 Series outside the house, located in the 400 to 500 address area of Mansfield Avenue, at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday and discovered the damage sometime on Sunday.

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Police: Man, 35, Throws Brick Through Front Window of Trader Joe’s

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A 35-year-old man from Rhode Island hurled a brick through a window at the Trader Joe’s store shortly before 1:30 a.m. last Tuesday, then was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, police said. Darien police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

Police were called to the store at 436 Post Road at 1:26 a.m. on a report of glass breaking. They found a small hole in one of the front windows, but no further damage inside the store or outside. When they checked the area, they found a man from West Warwick, R.I., and when they looked at surveillance video records from next-door Chase Bank, the man (or someone who looked like him) could be seen approaching the store with a brick in his hand. The man didn’t admit to police that he broke the window, but he did offer to pay for it.

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Vandalism: Golf Cart Valued at $6,000 Destroyed When Dumped in Wee Burn Water Hole

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Someone took a golf cart at Wee Burn Country Club on Wednesday, July 26 and drove it into a water hazard on the golf course, totally destroying a piece of equipment the club valued at $6,000, Darien police said. The next morning, employees of the country club at 410 Hollow Tree Ridge Road gave this account of the matter, according to police:

Four people had used the golf cart and left it parked for a while that afternoon near the 13th hole. When they returned, the cart was gone. They reported it missing to the head golf pro. This isn’t that unusual occurence at the club, since golfers often take carts they find available, so no one went looking for it — but by the end of the day, the club was still one cart short.

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Racial Slurs in Chalk Found at Weed Beach Tennis Court

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Someone wrote a racial slur and drew a swastika on a tennis court at Weed Beach on Saturday, but police found the vandalism was removable because it had all been done in chalk. At 10:54 a.m. on Saturday, May 27, officers at Weed Beach saw the racist markings on one of the tennis courts. There was a third marking in chalk, but it was illegible. There was no permanent damage to the court, no witnesses have been found and police have no suspects.

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Four Vehicles Egged in or Around Allen O’Neill Drive

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After police were told about a car that had been egged overnight, April 13 to 14 on Allen O’Neill Drive, they checked the neighborhood and found three others. The owner of a 2015 Kia Optima contacted police, who notified the other car owners. None of the damage appeared to be permanent. Various Web sites have advice about cleaning eggs from cars. Eggs can damage car paint, making it look foggy or faded, according to an article in the Austin American-Statesman.

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Vandalism Found at Ox Ridge School Field

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Some damage was done to a baseball field at Ox Ridge School in late March, Darien Police Capt. John Lawlor told the Police Commission. Someone drove over the field in a vehicle, Lawlor told the commission as he listed various events since the last commission meeting. The damage to the field, discovered on Friday March 24, was fixable, he said after the Wednesday afternoon meeting. ____________

The previous case of vandalism announced by police:

Vandalism to ATM Building and a Car Behind a Downtown Bank (Feb. 26)