Man Arrested After Inappropriately Touching Teen in Naugatuck

A 39-year-old man has been arrested after the Naugatuck Police Department received a report of a 15-year-old girl that had been approached and inappropriately touched by an unknown adult male.

Ryan Havican has been charged with breach of peace, risk of injury, unlawful restraint, and carrying a dangerous weapon. He was held on a $10,000 bond and was to appear at Waterbury Superior Court on Monday.

On Friday at approximately 11:30 p.m., the victim advised officers that she was with friends on the Naugatuck Green at about 11 p.m. when they were approached.

Police said the victim told them that the man asked her if she wanted to drink alcohol with him and that one of her friends told they man that she was underage. The victim said that the man replied “who cares” and asked her to “join him.”

The victim said that the man then approached her and put his hand out to shake her hand and when she did, the man pulled the victims hand towards him and asked her “who she was out with” because he “didn’t want her out late.” The victim also said that the man then put his hands on her waist and shoulder and started squeezing her tightly, police said.

Police said that the victim’s friend grabbed her and pulled her away from the man, and that as she did so, the man whispered to her that he had been in jail and that she was a “pretty girl.”

The victim became very scared and started to cry and that the man walked away, police said. She then went home and told her parents what happened and they called the police.

The Naugatuck Police Department located the man - Havican - in the area a short time later and he was arrested. When he was arrested, Havican was found to be in possession of a 5” inch fixed-blade knife, police said.

Photo courtesy of the Naugatuck Police Department.