Teen Charged in August Stabbing in Trouble Again

A Southington teenager arrested in the robbery and stabbing of a Bristol woman in August is facing additional charges from two separate thefts from care just a few days earlier, police said on Monday.

Javier Arroyo, of 125 Howard Avenue in Southington, was charged with two counts of third-degree burglary and two counts of sixth-degree larceny in Bristol Superior Court Thursday after appearing in connection with his arrest from earlier this year.

Arroyo, 18, remains incarcerated at the Mason Youth Institution in Cheshire in lieu of $86,000 in bonds, according to records available through the state Department of Correction.

The latest charges stem from a series of August 9 car thefts which happened in Southington, said . An investigation found that Arroyo had allegedly taken items from two different cars including a wallet containing $40 in cash, gift cards, a credit card and a license.

In the second car, police said Arroyo entered and didn’t find anything worth taking but removed the top from a center console in the vehicle.

The alleged thefts came just three days before police arrested Arroyo in a stabbing that occurred at the intersection of Beecher Street and Hill Street which left a 21-year-old Bristol woman hospitalized with stab wounds. She was treated and later released.

Police said following the incident that the woman had offered to give Arroyo a ride, at which point he robbed her at knifepoint.

He is facing charges including two counts of first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace, interfering with an officer, two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, sixth-degree larceny and second-degree threatening in the case.

He has pleaded not guilty to each of those charges, according to court records.