Police: Two Smash-and-Grabs Reported at Waveny on Sunday Afternoon

Police say they received reports that two vehicles had been forcibly entered  in Waveny on Sunday afternoon. Officers were dispatched to the park at about 12:27 p.m. on Jan. 9, according to a press release issued by Police Chief Leon Krolikowski. There, the officers found that the rear window of a 2018 Mercedes Benz had been smashed, with a purse missing from the left-rear seat, Krolikowski said in the press release. Inside the purse was a wallet with a driver’s license, bank card, credit card and vaccine card, he said.

Police Investigate Multiple Reports of Stolen Mail in New Canaan

Police last Friday and on the weekend received reports of a stolen SUV as well as a vehicle that had been entered illegally and numerous complaints of stolen mail. At about 8:27 a.m. on Dec. 17, officers were dispatched to Rosebrook Road to investigate a report of a stolen 2020 Ford Explorer left unlocked with its keys inside, according to a press release issued by Police Chief Leon Krolikowski. The same day, police received a report of a vehicle on Turtleback Lane West that had been entered with items stolen from it, Krolikowski said in the release. The following day, Dec.

‘This Is Serious Stuff’: Police Department’s Call for Security Cameras in New Canaan Unaddressed After Eight Months 

Although New Canaan Police more than eight months ago advised First Selectman Kevin Moynihan that security cameras should be strategically installed at several locations in town in order to deter crime and help investigators, progress hasn’t been made, officials said Tuesday. Police Chief Leon Krolikowski in a March 29 memo to Moynihan said that “an analysis of police incidents in town shows a need for cameras” in locations that include Irwin Park’s entrance and parking lot, as well as five locations downtown (more details below). “On several occasions, nationally organized gangs and career criminals committed crimes (larcenies from vehicles and identity theft from vehicles) in Irwin Park,” Krolikowski said in the memo, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. “To gain entry, windows were broken in many of the vehicle break-ins.”

The chief added, “Other analysis shows a number of criminal incidents (armed bank robbery, organized retail theft, robbery of a jewelry store) in the center of town that calls for camera installation in the center of town.”

The Police Commission had reviewed and discussed the memo in executive session during its March 17 meeting, Krolikowski said, and then voted 3-0 in favor of sending the recommendations to Moynihan. Yet the memo “hasn’t really been addressed,” Krolikowski said during Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.