An Ansonia man wanted by police on charges he held a woman at knifepoint over the weekend was charged with breaking a man’s jaw during a home invasion in Seymour just two weeks ago, court documents show.
Justin Bohn, 38, faces charges of home invasion, second-degree assault, and conspiracy to commit both home invasion and second-degree assault in the Seymour case.
The Valley Indy left a message for Bohn’s lawyer Thursday.
Ansonia police are searching for Bohn in connection to an assault on a woman Saturday and Sunday in which Bohn allegedly held a woman held a woman hostage and choked her until she lost consciousness.
Police were still looking for Bohn Thursday and released another photo of him in an attempt to locate him. They’re asking the public to call 203 – 735-1885 if the knew where he is.
Seymour Incident
According to an arrest warrant in the Seymour case, a man told police he was sleeping in a “man cave” shed behind a Second Avenue home with his girlfriend when Bohn burst through the doors and punched him in the face several times.
Police found a trail of blood from the house to the street and sent samples to the state police for DNA tests.
The victim suffered a fractured jaw and extensive bruising around his eyes and face.
The assault victim told police he did not recognize the man who punched him. But he recognized the woman he was with as the mother of someone he had met at the Seymour skate park.
The description rang a bell with Seymour Detective Todd Romagna, who went to the woman’s Pearl Street home.
He didn’t make contact with her, but he did find a drop of blood on the stairs leading the way to the apartment, as well as dried blood on the woman’s car, which was parked outside.
The woman’s father told police his daughter lived with Bohn, who he said “has been in trouble in the past and has spent time in jail.”
The assault victim and his girlfriend then identified Bohn as the perpetrator of the assault from photo arrays prepared by police.
Romagna reached out to Bohn, but only got a call back from his lawyer, who said his client wished to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Meanwhile, state police notified Seymour cops that they had matched Bohn’s DNA to one of the blood samples they had taken earlier.
Police then obtained a search warrant to get a DNA sample from Bohn to confirm the match.
Two months later, state police notified them that the sample taken from Bohn was consistent with the blood from the scene of the assault.
After police obtained an arrest warrant for Bohn in the case, he was arrested July 11.
He posted a $150,000 bond in that case, which was transferred to Superior Court in Milford, which handles more serious crimes, on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Ansonia police asked residents to be on the lookout for Bohn in connection with a domestic violence incident in their city.
Police said Bohn has an address on Winter Street. He’s about six-foot-one, 200 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
“It is unknown where Justin Bohn is at this time and we are asking the public to be on the look-out,” Ansonia Police Lt. Andrew Cota said in a prepared statement. “Do not approach Bohn as he is considered dangerous.”
