SPENCER— Joshua D. Ryder, who had been released last month after a federal court ordered Sheriff Guy W. Glodis to take steps to ease jail overcrowding, was allegedly shouting obscenities across Main Street Tuesday as he carried a 12-pack of beer off to a friend’s party at about 9:30 p.m.
Two officers driving to another call with their cruiser windows down heard the profanities being exchanged and stopped to speak with Mr. Ryder. Officer Norman L. Hodgerney Jr. wrote in a report that he and Detective Michael Shea believed a fight was about to break out. He wrote that he told Mr. Ryder, who he believed was intoxicated, to go home and stay inside.
Mr. Ryder, 29, of 126 Main St., Apt. 14, allegedly agreed, then ran behind a building with a female and headed to the party. Because he did not go home, police followed Mr. Ryder to the party. When they arrived, Mr. Ryder answered the door and said, “It’s the big, bad Spencer police here to give me a hard time,” the report reads.
As he was taken into custody for causing a disturbance, Mr. Ryder was shouting to passers-by on the street, “Come bail me out!” and making disparaging remarks about Spencer officers, the report states.
Mr. Ryder was released Sept. 24 from the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction, where he was being held without right to bail following his arraignment on Sept. 17 on a charge that he drove after his license was suspended for drunken driving. But court documents indicate he was released one week later as part of the sheriff’s efforts to comply with a federal order that allows the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction in West Boylston to have no more than 1,451 inmates.
That number is set to be reduced to 1,351 inmates on Nov. 1 and cut again to 1,251 on Dec. 1.
Deputy Jail Superintendent Jeffrey R. Turco said last night that the Sheriff’s Department is trying to find ways to better monitor pretrial detainees.
“We are looking at alternative means of supervision,” he said, adding that some inmates awaiting trial may be released and closely monitored by probation officials or attached to electronic monitoring and global positioning devices.
“We recognize that there is a problem,” he said.
Mr. Turco said similar issues have arisen at other jails across the state over the years and releasing inmates early or while they are awaiting trial is nothing new. He said such releases take place in other jails in Massachusetts. He said Sheriff’s Department staff is reviewing how releases are done from other facilities.
Mr. Ryder has now been ordered held again without right to bail and is due back in Western Worcester District Court in East Brookfield Monday.
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