FRYEBURG – A South Portland man suspected of stealing antiques from a Stanley Hill Road home jumped out of a second-floor window to escape police as an officer and the homeowner pulled guns on him Wednesday afternoon.

David Duquette, 43, was treated at a local hospital for injuries to his right arm and then booked at the Oxford County Jail in Paris on one count each of burglary and theft, a jailer said Wednesday night. Bail was set at $10,000 cash or $50,000 worth of property, and he is scheduled for court arraignment Thursday.

Police say Duquette broke into the vacant house at 1 Stanley Hill Road and stole antiques, including guns, bottles and dolls. Police believe he was responsible for a break-in at the same house last week when antiques, such as a banjo clock and jewelry, were stolen.

The incident unfolded when the homeowner, Elbridge Russell, a local campground owner, did a routine check on his vacant 19th-century farmhouse with attached barn and discovered a side-door window was smashed.

When Fryeburg Police Chief Philip Weymouth arrived, the owner believed no one was in the house, but the chief said he remained cautious as he entered.

“I opened the door and I yelled in and I heard someone running,” Weymouth said. He heard breaking glass, a crash and a shot fired, he said.

“The homeowner fired one round in the air, I believe,” Weymouth said. He ran out the front door to find Russell standing with one hand in the air holding a semiautomatic pistol. An officer at the corner of the house had his gun drawn and aimed at the suspect who lay bleeding in tall grass on the edge of a knoll overlooking Route 302.

“I told him, ‘Put the gun down. Let us handle it,'” Weymouth said he told the homeowner. “I don’t think his intent was to hurt anyone. But it worked. (The suspect) fell right to the ground.”

Weymouth said Russell told him, “I was trying to back you guys up.”

No charges were expected to be filed against the homeowner, Weymouth said. He said it appeared that Duquette had broken into the house about two hours earlier and had packed a blue canvas L.L. Bean knapsack with antiques such as vintage bottles, a 1960s “Skipper” doll in its original box, other 1960s dolls, antique guns and other items.

The suspect had parked a Chevrolet S10 truck about a quarter of a mile down Route 302, police said.

Police in South Portland were assisting with the case and had acquired a search warrant for Duquette’s home at 80 Huntress Ave, Lt. Todd Bernard said.