A homeowner who’s burglar alarm company alerted him to someone inside his house used surveillance cameras and saw three or four men removing boxes from it and putting them in a white van, he told police when he called them.
Police
Think twice before replacing this window.
Darien police gave this account of the incident:
Several police officers, already notified about the incident by the burglar alarm company, went to the Hickory Lane house to confront the men. The three men in the crew were told to lay on the ground and were handcuffed — before police learned that the men were workers for a window-replacement company and had been given the wrong address by a manager there.
When police called to the window-replacement company, the manager told them that the wrong address had been mistakenly given to the workers (the Hickory Road resident had previously had work done by the same company). The address where the workers were supposed to be sent was across town.
When workers arrived and found nobody there to let them in the locked house, one of the workers (somehow) recalled the combination for the garage door opener and used it to let everybody in and out.
The homeowner declined to press charges, and police released the workers. The homeowner said he was definitely changing the code for the garage door opener.
In the past, Darien police have been called to a location after a burglar alarm has notified them, only to find workers cleaning. For a resident to call police giving specific information on what people inside were doing is extremely unusual, according to a department spokesman.