Police say a 43-year-old resident reported his motor scooter stolen last week from the New Canaan Train Station downtown.
The man drives his 49-cc red Tomos moped—with a cracked front fender above the headlight, and bike lock wrapped around the rear—to the train station every day, but doesn’t lock it, according to a police report.
He parked it there at 6:15 a.m. on July 23 (last Wednesday) near the bike rack that’s located further away from the ticket machine, and when he returned at 7:15 p.m., it was gone, according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc.
During the day, a cabbie at the train station did see a suspect show up at the train station at about 10 or 11 a.m. and ride off on the motor scooter some time between 3 and 4 p.m., and MTA authorities are looking through video surveillance, Ogrinc said.
The suspect is described as a young black male, 20 to 25 years old, slim in build and about 5-foot, 11-inches tall, and he had short hair, wearing a red baseball cap, white T-shirt and khaki pants, according to a police report.