A six-hour standoff between police and a man they feared might be armed ended peacefully Monday when a SWAT team entered the man's house using a key they had gotten from his brother, police said.

Police responded at 6:20 a.m. to the house of David Myska, 40, of 341 Country Club Road, after receiving a complaint from Myska's brother that loud rock and roll music was blaring from the property.

Police would not release the name of Myska's brother, who officers said lives next door to Myska. But police said the brother told them that Myska had access to shotguns and rifles inside the house.

When police arrived at the scene, Myska would not answer the door and was behaving irrationally, police said.

"He was ripping the blinds off the windows," Sgt. Gregory Wright said.

Police called for the city's SWAT and K-9 teams, Wright said.

Police then contacted Myska by phone several times, but he repeatedly hung up on them.

Officers cordoned off the street and instructed neighbors to stay inside. Police wearing body armor and helmets circled the home for hours as sirens occasionally sounded from cruisers parked on the street.

At 12:30 p.m., police entered the home using a key that Wright said was supplied by Myska's brother. Myska was found inside "highly intoxicated" and was transported by ambulance to New Britain General Hospital, Wright said.

Officers later removed several shotguns and rifles from the house that were owned by Myska's brother, Wright said.

Myska will be arrested by warrant for breach of peace and interfering with police, Wright said.

Throughout the incident, neighbors would occasionally sneak a peek of the scene by poking their heads from their front doors. A handful of neighbors said they knew Myska as a troublemaker who had problems with alcohol and his mental health.

In the generally well-kept neighborhood, Myska's single-family house had two old tires sitting on the front lawn. A black plastic hose intended to channel water from the gutters snaked through the lawn's brown grass. Debris littered the back of the driveway and a sign attached to the outside of the house reads "Beware of the Dog. Do not trespass."

Myska lives in the house with his mother.

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