Urbandale man arrested after threatening to kill neighbors, cops

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William Vance Ryerson, 41, of Urbandale was arrested Wednesday on charges of two counts of first-degree harassment, two counts of disorderly conduct and first-offense consuming alcohol in a public place.

An Urbandale man was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly threatening to kill his neighbors and later threatening to kill officers of the Urbandale Police Department.

William Vance Ryerson, 41, of 15423 Aurora Ave., Urbandale, was charged with two counts of first-degree harassment, two counts of disorderly conduct and first-offense public intoxication.

The incident began about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 15400 block of Aurora Avenue, where officers of the Urbandale Police Department responded to a noise complaint.

While the officers were speaking with Ryerson, who allegedly caused the noise, and with four neighbors, who reported the noise, “Ryerson turned away from officers and started approaching the group of neighbors and threatened to ‘put a barrel down their throat,’ ‘take care of all you motherfuckers,’ that they would be on the 10 o’clock news, and that he had a ‘tech nine’ who would ‘take care of them,'” according to court records.

Ryserson also allegedly told his neighbors that he would “break into their house at 3 a.m.” and that they would all be “toe tagged and in the city morgue before the warrant gets to him,” according to court records.

The neighbors told the officers that they “did not feel safe and felt extremely threatened and afraid due to these statements,” according to court records.

A Dallas County Magistrate issued an order of protection Thursday morning for the four neighbors.

Ryserson also allegedly made statements at the Dallas County Jail about “not answering the door for Urbandale PD and shooting officers through the door, then eating French fries while watching them squirm,” according to court records.

Ryerson is held in the Dallas County Jail on a $2,000 cash-only bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing March 17 in Dallas County District Court.

Ryerson was convicted of disorderly conduct in 2016 in Lucas County District Court. He was convicted of third-degree harassment in 2002 in Marion County District Court. He was arrested in 2000 on charges of two counts of first-degree arson and possession of explosives and pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of reckless use of explosives in Marion County District Court.

*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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