A man with autism has filed a false arrest and discrimination lawsuit against a police department in Bergen County, claiming he spent 13 days in jail after being wrongly accused of stalking his neighbors.
William Krywos, 53, says in court papers that Ho-Ho-Kus police arrested him at his Duncan Road home on June 13, 2024, after he was recorded on the neighbors’ security camera muttering to himself.
A detective with the Ho-Ho-Kus Police Department wrote in court charging documents that Krywos had been making “bodily movements, singing songs and used vulgar language aimed at his next-door neighbors,” according to the lawsuit that was filed in state court on May 29…