Midnight Car Thefts in Wilton Total 48 Since Last Sept.

Residents, lock your cars.

To date, a total of 48 vehicles, all unlocked and parked in their owners’ driveways in Wilton, have been burglarized since Sept. 2010, although it is not definite that the same person, or persons, are behind all of the crimes.

Last week, police received several complaints concerning a total of 11 vehicles which had been entered and burglarized between the dates of October 11 and October 13.

Roads hit last week were Spoon Wood Road, West meadow Road, Chestnut Hill Road, High Ridge Road, and Rivergate Drive. A number of items, including GPS devices, a laptop and carrying bag, cash, a wallet with credit cards, a briefcase, and a personal checkbook were taken from the vehicles, police said.

It appears that the first rash of thefts occurred over a year ago in (items stolen included a GPS and a $2,000 laptop). About a week later, and again overnight, driveways off of Seir Hill Road, Old Boston Road, Silvermine Woods, and Spectacle Lane had been identically burgled.

Fast-forward to early vehicles received the same treatment, this time on the roads of Pheasant Run, Cheese Spring and Hidden Lake Ridge. And again, about a week after this incident,  The prowler(s) swiped from another eight vehicles just a week after that,

In mid  Road were entered and stolen from. There appears to have been a lull in activity from then until last week.

“Unfortunately, it’s a common activity; it periodically happens, and in other towns, too,” said Lieutenant Donald Wakeman of the Wilton Police Department. “We can’t say at this time if [the thefts from last year] have been done by the same person.” It is also hard to find and lift the correct set of fingerprints from these vehicles, he said. 

Wakeman said that the incidents from last Sept. were of the “same type of activity” and that those cases remain unsolved.Wakeman noted that unlocked cars were "easy targets" for thieves.

Police are encouraging residents to lock their cars’ doors and to report any suspicious activity to police.

“We’d rather be called and have it be nothing than it be the suspect who returned to the area,” said Wakeman.