PORTSMOUTH — A Heath�s Mobil clerk phoned police Thursday to report that a man who soiled himself bought beer and put it in a truck where he had more beer stored.
The clerk�s description, including the truck�s vanity plates, matches Paul Ryden, 45, who was arrested one day earlier after allegedly driving through a McDonald�s drive-through window while �highly intoxicated,� passing vomit-covered cash to a clerk, hitting a pole, then driving to the back restaurant parking lot.
Wednesday�s incident was the second consecutive day Ryden was alleged to have driven while intoxicated at the Lafayette Rd. McDonald�s, according to witness statements.
The Mobil clerk said she read the Herald�s report about Lyden�s McDonald�s arrest, before someone matching his description came into her store Thursday and gave clerks �a hard time.� After noticing he had soiled himself, she said, she instructed her co-worker to call police.
That truck is registered to Ryden using the 600 Lafayette Rd. address for the Cross Roads House homeless shelter and was filled with empty beer cans and vomit at the time of his 1:30 p.m. Wednesday arrest, said Police Sgt. Frank Warchol. When asked by police to step out of the truck, two empty beer cans fell out the driver�s side door.
At the time of Thursday�s call, police were busy with a four-car accident on Woodbury Ave. and were unable to respond to in time.