Man arrested for violent kidnapping, sexual assault in Bridgeport: Police – NBC Connecticut

A man wanted in connection with a violent kidnapping and sexual assault in Bridgeport has been taken into custody, police said.

Norwalk police arrested 36-year-old Leroy Martin Pressley Jr. after stopping him on Tuesday.

Pressley Jr. was suspected of being involved in a kidnapping and sexual assault that occurred on August 15 on Bridgeport's east side. According to the police report, a woman reported that she had been kidnapped, attacked and threatened at gunpoint.

According to authorities, the woman had previously had a domestic relationship with Pressley Jr.

Pressley Jr. had drugs in his possession at the time of his arrest. After posting bail, he was taken to the Bridgeport Police Department on two felony charges.

He is charged with first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping, strangulation/suffocation, menacing, false imprisonment and more. Pressley Jr. is being held on a total of $750,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.

The Bridgeport Police Department's Special Victims Unit and the Bridgeport District Attorney's Office assisted in the investigation.