Crime & Safety

Police Blotter for March 22: Burglaries

Burglaries on Brookmere Drive and Mill Hill Terrace; Cash, Debit Card Stolen From Locker at Gym; Suspicious Seafood Seller

The Fairfield Police Department's press briefing on Tuesday included the following cases.

Police are investigating burglaries to houses on Brookmere Drive in Fairfield and Mill Hill Terrace in the town's Southport neighborhood on Monday.

Jewelry valued at several thousand dollars, an iPod valued at $100, a video camera valued at $60, a laptop computer valued at $1,300, and $120 in change were reported stolen from a house on Brookmere Drive sometime between noon and 2:40 p.m., police said.

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Entry was gained by forcing open a door, police said.

On Mill Hill Terrace, a jewelry box containing several pieces of jewelry of undetermined value and an estimated $1,000 in change were reported stolen sometime between 9:45 a.m. and 5 p.m., police said. There was no sign of forced entry, police said.

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About $85 cash and a debit card were reported stolen from a wallet in an unlocked locker at The Edge, a gym on Kings Highway Cutoff in Fairfield, sometime between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sept. 9. The theft was reported to police on Monday, police said.

Police said the debit card had been used to make a $13 charge in California, a $1 charge in Wilton and a $1 charge in the Bronx, N.Y. The $1 charges were made to see if the debit card was still working, police said.

The victim canceled the debit card, police said.

A resident on Brooklawn Avenue in Fairfield reported to police that an unidentified man tried to sell her seafood at her home about 11:59 a.m. Monday.

Police said the resident reported that the man, described as white, about 50 years old and driving a red pickup truck, knocked on her door and said he had seafood left over from a wedding that had been canceled and he was trying to sell it. The woman did not buy it, police said.

Police said the man's story likely was false because a resident on Querida Street reported a similar incident about a month ago and that the man in that incident matched the description of the man on Brooklawn Avenue Monday morning.


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