Three Vehicles Entered in Noroton by Picky Burglars

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Twice in one week Darien residents were given the ultimate put-down by a burglar or burglars — the thief didn’t want their stuff.

Two town residents told police their cars, each parked in the victim’s driveway, were entered overnight from June 18 to 19 (last Thursday to Friday), and a third vehicle burglary occurred a few days before but in two cases the stolen items were found by the side of a road.

All the burglaries were in the Noroton section of town, and two of them happened close by each other; the other, within a couple of miles.IMG_3547

One or more credit cards from one of the stolen wallets was used at a Target store in Connecticut, and police in that community have a suspect, so Darien police may be charging someone in connection with at least one of the thefts.

Here are descriptions of each incident as given by Darien police:

Warner Drive

A 2010 Nissan Sentra parked in the driveway of a home on Warner Drive between 11 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday was entered after the front passenger window was smashed.

A black wallet (which couldn’t be seen from outside the car) was taken from the center console. Inside it were several bank credit cards and the victim’s driver’s license (but no cash).

The victim reported the incident that morning to police, but by 5 p.m., she called police again to report that the wallet had been found by a neighbor on a sidewalk near the entrance to the westbound lanes of Interstate 95 near Exit 10 (the entrance near Darien EMS-Post 53).

Remaining inside the wallet was — everything. Nothing had been stolen. (The victim had already been advised by police to cancel the credit cards.) At least she didn’t have to get another driver’s license from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Hecker Avenue

Roughly across the street from the Warner Drive home (the intersection is here), another vehicle burglary was reported during the same overnight period. In this case, a 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe was entered sometime between 5:30 p.m. Thursday and 8:30 a.m. Friday.

The owner noticed that the front driver’s door was partly opened when she came back to the car on Friday morning. When she checked the center console, she discovered that her wallet was missing. It contained her driver’s license and three credit cards (but, again, no cash).

When the victim called the credit card issuers to report the theft, she was told $600 had been charged to her from a Target store in Stamford (police later determined that the store was located elsewhere in Connecticut).

A police agency in the community where the Target is located has at least on suspect, Darien detectives learned, and Darien police may make an arrest in the case.

The burglary took place just down the street (two or three blocks) from Darien Police Headquarters, but the burglar may not have known that.

Post Road

Farther from the two other incidents, a 2014 Ford Expedition parked in a driveway off the Post Road, not far from that road’s intersection with Coachlamp Lane, was entered sometime between 9 p.m. Sunday, June 14, and 8:15 a.m. the next morning.

The owner didn’t recall if a door was left ajar on the vehicle, and found nothing unusual until she saw a backpack that belongs to her on the Post Road near Coachlamp Lane. The backpack contained about $100 worth of sporting equipment, none of which had been removed. Nothing else appears to have been missing from the vehicle, she said, and there is no way the bag could have fallen out of the car — so someone must have taken it, she said.

She believed that she had left the vehicle unlocked.

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