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Police Investigate Two Daytime MV Thefts in Downtown New Canaan

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New Canaan Police Department detectives are investigating two daytime thefts of motor vehicles downtown, officials say. The thefts occurred “while one victim was attempting to pump gas at the Mobil station and the other was shopping at the Acme,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by NCPD. “The majority of the cars are stolen in the overnight hours from residential driveways where the keys or key fob is left inside the unlocked vehicle,” the release said. In the two most recent incidents, “cars left unlocked or unattended have been stolen from the downtown area,” it said. It wasn’t clear from the press release whether police believe the same suspects were involved in the two recent thefts.

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Warrant: Stamford Man, 20, Exposed Himself to Girls in New Canaan

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Police last week arrested a 20-year-old Stamford man by warrant in connection with two incidents in downtown New Canaan where he exposed himself to juvenile girls, court documents show. The first incident occurred after school on May 23 (a Friday), when the man exposed himself to three 12-year-old girls while lingering in a feminine products area at CVS, according to an arrest warrant application filed by New Canaan Police Sgt. Peter Condos, a 38-year veteran of the department, and signed Dec. 24 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. After encountering the man at Starbucks around 4 p.m. that day, the girls entered CVS and one of them “noticed the same person in the furthest aisle to the left from the main entrance” and “noticed him ‘looking at products’ in the aisle which she described as tampons,” the arrest warrant application said.

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Police: Arrests for Assault, Violation of a Protective Order

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Police on Dec. 20 arrested a New Canaan teen and charged him with third-degree assault. 

At about 7:30 a.m. that Saturday, officers responded to a Lakeview Avenue home on a reported dispute between the 18-year-old and the victim, according to police. There, officers established probable cause to bring the misdemeanor charge, according to a police report. Under state law, a person is guilty of third-degree assault when he or she “with intent … recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person; or with criminal negligence … causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon, a dangerous instrument or an electronic defense weapon.”

It isn’t clear how the victim was injured or whether the victim is related to the arrested man. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter.

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Warrant: Connecticut Teen Broke Into Vehicles, Stole Golf Clubs and Car

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New Canaan Police this month arrested an 18-year-old Ansonia man in connection with car break-ins and a stolen vehicle one night in June. 

At about 7:49 a.m. on June 19 (a Thursday), officers were dispatched to a condominium complex on Route 123, Canaan Close, on a report of a 2023 Porsche Cayenne that had been broken into, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. 

There, police met with the owner of the mid-size SUV, who told the that it had been parked outside her unit “and when she went out to her vehicle this morning, she noticed the glove box and center console were open,” according to an arrest warrant application filed Sept. 3 by New Canaan Police Sgt. Peter Condos and signed Sept. 23 by a state Superior Court judge. He added: “She noted that she had not left her vehicle like this” on leaving it at about 9:30 p.m. the prior night.

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Police: Burglaries in New Canaan Up 25% in 2025

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Burglaries in New Canaan are up 25% year-over-year through the first 11 months of 2025, officials say. The rise, from 20 burglaries through November 2024 to 25 in the same time period this year, is prompting the New Canaan Police Department to advise residents “to secure their houses and put on their alarms and lights, and secure their vehicles—especially when people go on vacation,” according to Police Chief John DiFederico. “We are seeing these burglaries continue to trend upward,” DiFederico told members of the Police Commission during their regular meeting, held Wednesday night at NCPD headquarters. “Our investigators are working every single day to try and develop some suspects, and working regionally with other agencies that are seeing the same trends. So we are working hard on that.”

The comments came during a review of monthly statistics. 

Police this past summer warned residents about a new method that burglars used to get inside homes: Using ladders on people’s properties to climb to second-floor entrances. 

Overall, larcenies—including at New Canaan businesses and organizations—are about the same year-over-year, according to the data shared by DiFederico.