Police: Man Interfered During Traffic Stop

Written by Harold F. Cobin

A town man was arrested last Thursday for allegedly verbally challenging a police officer who was in the midst of conducting a traffic stop.

Capt. John Lynch said that at around 12:45 am. the officer stopped a car near the intersection of Danbury and Ridgefield roads for a traffic violation, and was talking with the motorist when a man approached him and said “he is our [the polices’] master and we are his slaves.”

The officer reported he told the man, later identified as William Kydes, that he should step back and when he was through with the traffic stop he would talk with him.

Kydes became agitated and started yelling, the officer reported, and said he advised him several more times to step back or he’d be arrested.

Kydes allegedly continued harassing the officer, so the officer handcuffed him and put him in the back of his cruiser.

At that point Kydes said he would file a lawsuit against the Police Department, the officer reported.

Kydes, 22, of 265 Danbury Rd., was charged with interfering with a police officer. Lynch said a family member paid a $250 bond to get him out of the lock-up.

Kydes was given a court date May 28.