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The incident took place around 6:38 p.m., Monday, Dec. 28, while Bridgeport Police officers were patrolling the PT Barnum Apartment Complex when an officer spotted a vehicle that was driving suspiciously and roll through a stop sign, said Scott Appleby, director of Bridgeport Emergency Management.
While initiating a traffic stop at the intersection of Wordin Avenue and Fairfield Avenue, the vehicle proceeded to speed away from the officer eastbound on Fairfield Avenue where it crashed into traffic coming off the highway, Appleby said.
The officer saw the driver flee the vehicle and run eastbound on Fairfield Avenue towards Commerce Drive.
While calling out the location of that suspect, the passenger jumped out of the vehicle and dropped an object from his lap.
He then attempted to gain access into a nearby vehicle, when the officer instructed the suspect through verbal commands to show his hands and get on the ground, Appleby said.
The suspect later identified as Charles Lee Young, age 34, of Bridgeport was taken into custody.
Upon a search of the vehicle, police recovered two firearms and several bags of drugs, he added.
Young was charged with:
- Carrying a pistol without a permit
- Criminal possession of a firearm
- Carrying a dangerous weapon
- Possession of narcotics
- Illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle
- Possession with intent to sell
- Interfering with an officer
- Attempted robbery
- Three counts of attempted larceny
- Two counts of illegal possession of a large-capacity magazine
He is being held on a $250,000 bond.
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