Police: Man, 50, Ejected from Parents' Darien Home

Police said Christopher Ryle, 50, of West Haven, was intoxicated when they first dropped him off Jan. 6 at Dunkin Donuts so that he could wait there to take the train home.

But by 8:37 p.m., according to a Darien police account, police were called upon to deal with him again — this time he wouldn’t leave his parents’ home on Old Kings Highway South.

Darien police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court):

At about 6 p.m., officers had met Ryle somewhere in town and advised him to take a train back to West Haven. He had enough money to do so, and officers dropped him off at the Dunkin Donuts on the Post Road near the station. The next train was scheduled to leave at 7:49 p.m.

Sometime later, police were called to his parents home.

When they arrived, Ryle was sitting in the den area of the home, eating pie.

When police told him he needed to leave, he became aggitated and combative and began to yell for his mother. He told police not to tell him what to do, then began to walk away toward his parents’ bedroom, yelling for his mother and father.

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Police told him to stop. He didn’t. Police started to grab him. He yelled explatives at them, told officers not to touch him and tried himself to grab the shirt of one of the officers. Police forcefully brought him to the floor, handcuffed him and arrested him. He had to be forcibly seated in a police patrol car.

Ryle was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He was initially held in lieu of $250 bond, but he couldn’t post it, and he was later transported to a hospital in order to get medications that he did not have. The lack of medication was making him nervous and giving him head pain. At that point, he was released on a promise to appear.

Ryle is scheduled to appear Jan. 16 in state Superior Court in Stamford.