Several hundred dollars in cash and a designer handbag were stolen from cars whose windows were smashed in on Sunday—seemingly within hours of each other—at two private clubs in the same area of town, police say.
At about 7:20 p.m. on July 27, police responded to a 44-year-old New Canaan woman’s report that the window on her car had been smashed in while parked at the New Canaan Field Club on Smith Ridge Road, according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the New Canaan Police Department.
She’d parked there at about 4:30 p.m. and returned about an hour later to find the front passenger side window shattered and her purse with several cards, a $30 beach bag and $300 in cash missing, as well as an iPhone 4 (later recovered by an officer down Route 123 at Locust), according to a police report. Damage from the smashed window is estimated to be about $500, Ogrinc said.
Members of the club tell police they saw an unfamiliar woman—described as white, about 60 years old and heavyset, with pale skin, brown hair, wearing a white shirt, black yoga pants and walking with a limp—walking around the pool for about 10 minutes.
About two hours later at the nearby Country Club of New Canaan—just up Smith Ridge and with a parking lot off of Country Club Road—police received a complaint from a 61-year-old Darien woman that her parked car also had been smashed in. That happened some time between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m., Ogrinc said.
Missing from that car was a $225 Kate Spade handbag, $600 eyeglasses, a purse with $200 in cash, passport and check made out to her (the Darien woman’s) own company in the amount of $2,000. The damage to the window comes to approximately $250, police said.
No one saw anyone suspicious at the Country Club.
Police are investigating.