New Canaan police are investigating the reported theft of about $5,000 in jewelry—a $4,500 diamond wedding ring and $500 gold wedding band—from a Hillside Avenue home last week.
At about 7:45 p.m. on April 19, a 50-year-old resident on the street reported to police that the items had gone missing from her home some time in the prior three months (since January), according to a police report.
The woman told police that she’d had workers inside the home intermittently in that period, according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the New Canaan Police Department.
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Police also are investigating several reported frauds, many connected to taxes:
- A Lantern Ridge Road man, 49, told police on April 14 that when he went to file his return, the IRS told him that it had been filed already, about a week earlier. The man says that his personal information may have been compromised in the widely publicized December security breach at Target.
- A Norholt Drive husband and wife in their 60s told police on April 16 that, about 10 days prior, someone attempted to file their federal and state tax returns. Those returns weren’t completed because they missed key information, Ogrinc said.
- Another New Canaan couple, Knollwood Lane residents in their late-40s, also told police (on April 16) that their federal income tax returns had been filed fraudulently.
- Finally, on Aprl 16, a 68-year-old Heritage Hill Road man told police that, two days earlier, someone had filed taxes under his name and social security number.