Police are investigating a report of a $1,500 scooter stolen from a Summit Ridge Road garage—possibly while the woman who reported the theft was home and in her own back yard.
The homeowner, 51, called in the larceny at 4:51 p.m. Friday—about four hours after she’d heard something in her driveway while in the back yard, Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the New Canaan Police Department said.
When she looked to see what the noise was, the woman recalled seeing two Hispanic males riding a white scooter into her driveway and a white van with blue lettering on the side parked on the road in front of her house, according to a police report. While not thinking anything of it at first, when the woman looked in her garage later she noticed the red and white 2006 Honda Metropolitan scooter was missing.
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An unknown woman last week signed for and collected a package that had been ordered for delivery at a New Canaan home—though the family there says they never ordered it, police said.
Ogrinc says authorities are looking into video surveillance footage at the Norwalk UPS facility to figure out who picked up the package.
Police learned of the problem at 1:42 p.m. on June 13. A 66-year-old Oenoke Ridge Road woman said she received a UPS notice for an attempted delivery of a package to her home. After confirming with her husband that neither of them had ordered a package, the woman signed for the package to be delivered again, before eventually calling UPS. That company informed the woman that they believed the package order amounted to an attempt at fraud, Ogrinc said.
Police are investigating.