A 43-year-old New Canaan man told police that a $6,000 diamond earring belonging to his wife went missing from a car he left at the Lumberyard lot for a local business to pick up and detail.
The 1-karat earring had been in a cup-holder next to the center console. He left the car there at about 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 26 for the local shop to pick up (unlocked, key inside), and it was to be returned at 3 p.m., according to a police report.
The complainant told police he searched the car several times and also spoke to the people at the car wash, the report said. The earring was small enough that even if it had been vacuumed up accidentally, it may have slipped past the filter, police said.
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Police are investigating the reported theft of an iPhone 5 from a Frogtown Road property.
A 53-year-old Norwalk man who heads a landscaping crew told police at about 12:08 p.m. on Aug. 25 that one of his workers had put the cellphone on a wall and lef it there, and that it was gone when he came back, according to a police report.
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About $500 worth of copper piping was reported missing from a Summer Street home on Aug. 27.
Some time between 3:30 p.m. the prior day and 11:15 a.m., someone appeared to have gained access to the material, kept inside a home that’s being worked on.
A neighbor told police she saw a dark-colored SUV drive past her home twice around midnight, police said.
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A 69-year-old New Canaan man said he received a fraudulent phone call at his downtown business last week.
At about 10 a.m. on Aug. 28, a man phoned a local laundromat in town saying his name was “Mike Kelly” and he was with Connecticut Light & Power. The caller said the New Canaan business owner had an outstanding balance of $1,000 with the utility but that he’d take $450 if the New Canaan man could pay that day, according to a police report. The caller also said the only acceptable form of payment would be a Green Dot prepaid card from CVS—a requirement flagged by the CVS cashier as the pair chatted when the man went there, police said.
Police are investigating.
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Finally, a wallet went missing from a broken-down car in a Heritage Hill Road garage after a pair of men in a passing SUV stopped, offered to help fix it and did so.
At about 4:58 p.m. on Labor Day, police heard from the son of the car’s owner.
According to him, a pair of men in a black SUV pulled into the driveway of the older man’s home asking whether help was needed fixing the car he was working on, saying one of them was a mechanic, police said.
The strangers were in and out of the vehicle several times, chatting, and they did fix whatever was wrong, police said, taking $20 apiece afterward. But when the son returned home later that day, and heard the story, he noticed that his own wallet—which had been in a storage area in the front driver’s side door—was missing, along with its contents: credit cards, $100 bill and driver’s license.
The men are described as Middle Eastern and were wearing white shirts, with one of them about six feet and the other six-foot-two.
Police are investigating.