BRIDGEPORT, CT — A 31-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for a domestic assault that prompted a large police response the day before.
Bryan James Hernaiz, of New Rochelle, New York, was taken into custody at his workplace in Fairfield on Wednesday morning.
At approximately 1 p.m. Tuesday, patrol officers were called to an apartment building on Sanford Place where a woman reported she had been punched by Hernaiz.
Officers believed Hernaiz might be barricaded inside the woman’s apartment armed with an assault rifle.
A perimeter was established and a negotiator and members of the Emergency Services Unit were activated.
Emergency Service Officers eventually entered the apartment and found nobody inside but located an AR-15-style assault rifle in a closet.
The rifle was seized as evidence, along with two 30-round magazines and 92 rounds of .223 caliber ammunition.
The victim was treated for a minor head injury at the scene by medics.
Hernaiz was served with two felony warrants Wednesday, one for a domestic violence case and another from Tuesday’s incident.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges including assault in the third degree, violation of a protective order, criminal possession of a firearm, risk of injury to a child, interfering with an officer, threatening in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, illegal sale/purchase of a large capacity magazine and disorderly conduct.
Bond was set at $220,000.
