Stratford Man – Armed Fugitive – Arrested In Bridgeport: Police

STRATFORD, CT — A Stratford man, who police said escaped from state custody last month, was recently arrested in Bridgeport on gun charges.

Bridgeport police announced over the weekend that they made a “high-risk arrest of an armed fugitive who escaped from a Department of Corrections halfway house in New Haven earlier this month."

Officers from the Bridgeport Police Patrol Division and Emergency Services Unit made the arrest on Thursday morning, police said.

Juwaun Terry, 27, of Stratford, was taken into custody after fleeing out of the second-floor rear door of a multi-family house on Highland Avenue at approximately 6 a.m. Thursday, police said. At the time of his arrest, he was considered an escapee from state custody, police said.

Officers recovered a 9-millimeter Glock handgun that police said Terry discarded in the house before fleeing.

Terry is a convicted felon and is on the state's Deadly Weapon Offender Registry, according to police.

Terry was charged with a total of seven weapons crimes, including criminal possession of firearm, possession of a high-capacity magazine and violation of the state Deadly Weapon Offender Registry. He was also charged with violation of a protective order and interfering with an officer.

Police said Terry was also found to have multiple active warrants from other jurisdictions. He was subsequently returned to the custody of the state Department of Corrections following his arrest and processing at the Bridgeport Police headquarters, according to police.