WESTPORT–Maybe Terry Dumanowsky needed a little more get up and go.
But after the 64-year-old Hamden, Connecticut, man allegedly got up and left Stop and Shop with $110.31 worth of energy drinks he hadn’t paid for, he caught the store’s attention.
He now faces charges for theft and trespassing in the store at 1790 Post Road East, Westport police said. Those legal troubles add to several larceny, drug-related and driving charges he faces from several incidents in Fairfield, court records show.
The Westport theft occurred on Nov. 3, 2025. Stop and Shop reported it to police the next day, when the investigating officer and a member of the store’s asset protection division identified Dumanowsky. The suspect had been officially ordered to stay out of the Stop and Shop from a previous incident, according to police.
Westport police were alerted on Jan. 30 when Dumanowsky appeared in Superior Court in Stamford on an unrelated matter. Westport police then charged him with first-degree criminal trespass and sixth-degree larceny, both misdemeanors. He is being held on $25,000 bond and is due in Superior Court in Stamford on March 23.
Dumanowsky is also scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Bridgeport on Feb. 18 to face various charges of larceny, drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, stemming from incidents in Fairfield on June 2, 2023, July 22, 2024 and Nov. 11, 2025. Along with those accusations, he is charged with several counts of failure to appear for previous court appointments.
Terry has a heart of gold, went out of his way to help on numerous occasions. It’s important to remember that people a not defined by a few mistakes. People are individuals and complex. I remember one time I had a medical issue, Terry drove me to Norwalk hospital and arranged for me to be treated because he knew staff there. One in a million, this guy is…