Bridgeport cop arrested again, charged with violating terms of earlier discharge

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BRIGEPORT - A local police officer has been arrested for a sixth time.

Steven Figueroa surrendered to police Monday after being told there was a warrant for his arrest.

He was charged with violating the conditions of release and then released after posting $1,500 bond.

He is free on a total of more than $200,000 in bonds.

On July 20, Figueroa, who on administrative leave without pay from the Bridgeport Police Department, was charged by Shelton police with first-degree sexual assault for allegedly raping his former girlfriend, whom he had earlier been charged with assaulting, in his home.

Figueroa has previous arrests in Bridgeport, Stratford and Milford for domestic violence against women. In the new arrest, he is accused of violating the conditions of his conditional discharge with his arrests in June and this month.

Figueroa has six months left on his conditional discharge following his September 2018 conviction for second-degree breach of peace.

In that case, officers were called to a home on Brooks Street in Bridgeport to check on a dispute. When they got there, they said, they saw Figueroa, who was armed, shoving a woman in the street. Police said the victim told them Figueroa, who had been ordered by a judge to stay away from the woman, had been stalking and harassing her and had called her cellphone 67 times.

When the victim of the Brooks Street incident threatened to call police on Figueroa, she told officers Figueroa responded, “My boys are coming and they ain’t gonna do (expletive) to me,” police said.