Police from multiple jurisdictions worked together last fall to solve a series of daytime burglaries in East Lyme, Lyme, Old Lyme and Salem that they say were carried out by a couple fueled by a need to inject one to two bundles a day of heroin.

According to court documents, Craig Daignault, 32, and Tiffany Bauer, 21, who were living at 130 Boston Post Road in East Lyme, stole electronics, silver, jewelry and other valuables from unoccupied homes in September 2014 and sold them at pawn shops in East Lyme, New London and Rhode Island.

In one case, Daignault and Bauer were interrupted as they attempted to burglarize a home on Jericho Drive in Old Lyme, and Bauer knocked the elderly occupants of the home to the ground as she attempted to flee, the documents say.

In August 2014, Daignault allegedly cut the copper heating and hot water pipes out of a basement apartment in the Boston Post Road complex where they were living and sold them for scrap. The Flanders Fire Department was called to handle the water leak caused by the missing pipes.

Charged with multiple counts of burglary and larceny, the two have been making regular court appearances as police continue to investigate. Their cases were transferred recently to the New London court where major crimes are heard.

Daignault is being held in lieu of $89,000 at the Bridgeport Correctional Center and is due back in court on Aug. 10.

Bauer, who provided police with details of the crimes during an interview in November 2014 in the Public Defender's office at the Broad Street, New London, courthouse, is free on a written promise to appear in court again on July 8.

According to court documents, the couple was arrested after detectives discussed the cases and shared information, including a description of Bauer's gray Chevy Malibu hatchback, at a regional detectives' meeting last Sept. 24.

Groton Town Police posed as potential buyers of a flat screen television advertised on Craigslist and arranged a meeting at the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on Long Hill Road, according to an arrest warrant affidavit prepared by state trooper Kristin Coit.

Daignault and Baer, arrested after they arrived at the restaurant in the Malibu, were found in possession of $2,000 worth of items stolen from a burglary the day before at 130 Cockle Hill Road in Salem, according to the affidavit.

The stolen items included a Toshiba 42-inch flat screen television and a Bose three-speaker surround sound system.

They were charged with third-degree larceny by possession, and while they were being processed at Troop E, police learned that Bauer had been ordered to stay 100 yards away from Daignault following a domestic dispute in December 2013.

She was charged additionally with violation of a protective order.

Following Bauer's and Daignault's arrests in Groton, East Lyme and state police obtained a search warrant for their apartment and found several hundred pieces of jewelry, jewelry boxes and sterling silver that was later identified by the burglary victims.

The police searched a white Toyota in the apartment complex parking lot that was last registered to Daignault.

They found, "in plain view," a partially open blue duffel bag on the back seat containing flatware stolen from the burglary on Upper Pattagansett Road.

After obtaining a search-and-seizure warrant for the car, they recovered more jewelry, jewelry boxes and other stolen items.

In the investigation that followed, police said, they learned the details of several burglaries.

On Sept. 8, the couple allegedly broke into a home on 258 Upper Pattagansett Road in East Lyme by pushing open a storm door in a cellar entrance way, according to an affidavit written by now-retired East Lyme Detective Donald W. Marr.

The homeowner, who said she had been away between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., reported she was missing a set of six sterling silver five-piece place settings, three flat screen televisions, a large amount of jewelry, a Bose Wave radio/CD system and $200 in cash.

She said the stolen items were worth more than $28,000. Some of the items were later recovered.

On Sept. 15, they allegedly broke into a home at 46-1 Becket Hill Road in Lyme by forcing open a porch door and stole two heavy-bound books containing the works of William Shakespeare, a television, jewelry, a portable mahogany bar, a large silver bowl and a model train, according to an affidavit written by Trooper Paul Pederson.

On Sept. 17, Daignualt and Bauer were attempting to break into a home at 52 Jericho Drive when they were interrupted by the elderly couple who lived there, according to a warrant affidavit prepared by Old Lyme police Officer Martin Lane.

The elderly woman said that as she and her husband pulled into the driveway after returning from an afternoon outing, she noticed a gray compact car parked facing out in the driveway.

The woman said she and her husband got out of their car and asked the female driver, later identified as Bauer, "What are you doing in my driveway?" Bauer responded she was "looking for Chris."

The woman, becoming suspicious, told her nobody named Chris lived there and that she was going to call police. Bauer got out of the car and pleaded with the woman not to call police and attempted to remove the cellphone from the woman's hand, according to the affidavit.

Daignault jumped out of the car, which was blocked in the driveway, and ran into the woods behind the house, carrying what appeared to be a cardboard box, according to the affidavit.

Bauer got into the victims' car, which was still running. She refused the owner's demands to get out and started to reverse with the driver's side door open, striking the couple and causing them to fall to the ground.

She struck a garbage can as she attempted to back out of the driveway, then parked the car, ran back to her own car and sped away, according to the affidavit.

A neighbor who heard the commotion attempted to follow the car to get the license plate number but was unable to keep up with it, according to the affidavit. He provided police with a description of the car.

The elderly man was bleeding from a cut on his elbow and the woman suffered shoulder pain, but both refused medical treatment, according to the affidavit.

In her statement to police, Bauer said she had met Daignault three years earlier. He introduced her to heroin, she said, and by September 2014 they were intravenously using one to two bundles a day — 10 to 20 bags —  and stealing from homes to support their habits.

Bauer said she would drive Daignault to homes where he, unarmed, would knock on the door to see if the occupants were home. If they were, he would ask if "a random named person" was home and leave. If not, he would go into the homes, take items and put them in the hatchback.

Bauer said she had entered treatment and wanted "to come clean and start making amends."

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Editor's note: this version corrects the age of Tiffany Bauer. She is 21.