Mother and son are kicked off cruise ship after disgusting act was caught on surveillance video
An Alabama mother-son duo was kicked off a cruise ship after the pair were allegedly caught on video engaging in a nasty act with an elderly passenger.
Kelli Lyn Ryan, 49, and her son, Dylan Ryan, 23, of Huntsville, were accused of hitting another passenger allegedly over 65 “with an open hand” on the MSC cruise from Miami, Florida.
Surveillance footage obtained by police shows Kelli punching the elderly victim, whose identity remains unknown, in the ship’s two-deck cinema after an argument broke out around 9:30pm on October 6.
Her son was also seen in the video punching the elderly victim several times, the ship’s deputy chief of security told police. Local10.
Kelli Lyn Ryan (pictured), 49, and her son, Dylan Ryan, 23, of Huntsville, were accused of hitting another passenger allegedly over 65 “with an open hand” during the MSC cruise from Miami, Florida
Dylan was thrown from the nearly 6,000-passenger boat for ‘outrageous conduct’ after the cruise stopped at the first port of call in Falmouth, Jamaica, police reports show
Dylan was ejected from the nearly 6,000-passenger boat the day after the altercation for “outrageous conduct” when the cruise stopped at its first port of call in Falmouth, Jamaica, police reports show.
Still, the 23-year-old’s mother was allowed to stay on the ship while it made stops in Grand Cayman Island, Mexico and MSC Ocean Cay β the cruise ship company’s private island in the Bahamas.
Nearly a week after her son kicked off the seaside vacation, Kelli was arrested and booked on a battery charge on a person 65 years or older when the Seascape ship finally returned to the Port of Miami.
As of Monday, the 49-year-old was no longer visible in the jail’s online database, Local10 reported.
No details have yet been released on the subject of the alleged altercation.
MSC Cruises has also not released a public statement on the incident.
Bystanders have taken to social media in the days following the incident to speculate about what might have happened to the 23-year-old man who remained in Jamaica, and why his mother may have been left without her son.
The 23-year-old’s mother was allowed to stay on the ship while it made stops in Grand Cayman Island, Mexico and MSC Ocean Cay β the cruise ship company’s private island in the Bahamas. Pictured: Inside MSC’s Seascape cruise ship
“Wow, how ‘excessively’ violent do you have to be to get MSC security to actually kick you off the cruise ship in a foreign port?” News about cruise law posted on Facebook.
βIt’s also no joke to be dumped in Jamaica with no resources,β another user added.
With another answer: ‘Cruising on these big ships is dangerous, on so many levels.’
Kicking passengers off cruise ships is considered a relatively rare occurrence, and usually only happens when there are serious behavioral or serious medical conditions.