Police are investigating what appear to be four illegal entries of parked cars during Halloween Trick-or-Treating in New Canaan.
At about 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, an officer on patrol on Church Street spotted a black neon backpack laying against a telephone pole, according to a police report. Looking through the bag, the officer found contact information for its owner, brought it to that individual and was told that the backpack had been stolen the prior night while parked on Douglas Road between 7 p.m. and 2 a.m., the report said. Missing items include a Garmin GPS unit, TI-83 model Texas Instruments calculator and pair of Timberland prescription glasses, the report said.
At 8:57 a.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to a Vally Road residence on a report of items taken the prior night from an unlocked car.
Three fishing rods worth a total of about $1,300 had gone missing from a car entered the night before, police said.
The victim found that the rods had gone missing after his wife had looked outside and noticed that the trunk of the car was open, according to a police report.
Finally, police at 9:07 a.m. Sunday were dispatched to a house on Canoe Hill Road where two vehicles appear to have been entered on Halloween night. The owners of the cars said they were home at 8 p.m. on Oct. 31 and didn’t notice anything strange, but when they got up and out the following morning, they noticed that the doors on the cars were open.
Nothing was reported stolen from those two cards, police said.