HARTFORD, Conn. — Former UConn men’s basketball star Ben Gordon was arrested Tuesday, just a day after his former college team won the national championship, following a bizarre incident in which he allegedly threatened multiple people with a knife at a juice shop in Stamford.
Gordon, 40, was found with a folding knife, brass knuckles and a stun gun following a disturbance at Juice Kings at 36 Atlantic St. in Stamford, according to Stamford Assistant Chief of Police Richard Conklin.
The Stamford Police Department was called to the business on Tuesday at about 9:50 a.m. on the report of a man there acting bizarre and aggressive and threatening employees with a knife, Conklin said. The suspect, later identified as Gordon, was compliant when police asked him to step outside but quickly stopped cooperating when an officer told him to put his hands on a nearby wall, according to Conklin.
