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The driver — identified as 31-year-old Evgeni Yampolski — damaged the inside of a police car and then urinated on himself, spit at officers and smeared blood on the walls of his cell at BCPD headquarters, Jeanne Baratta, the chief of staff for Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Officer Christopher Sullivan, a 3-year department veteran and former Fair Lawn police officer, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center following the incident.
Yampolski, meanwhile, was being held on $35,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail. The Russian-born Israeli citizen is charged with assaulting and disarming a police officer, resisting/eluding, criminal mischief with damage and DWI, among other offenses. Additional charges were expected.
Sullivan tried to stop a black Mazda CX-7 on Route 4 in Paramus, Baratta said, confirming an earlier CLIFFVIEW PILOT report.
“The vehicle did not stop and fled into Fair Lawn,” she said, adding that officials “have no reason to believe it was at speeds of up to 100 mph,” as a source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT overnight.
Yampolski eventually stopped outside his home at the Park View Estates on Park View Place, where he assaulted Sullivan, Baratta said.
County and Fair Lawn police arrived and subdued him, she said.
Yampolski refused medical treatment, Baratta said.
BCPD CAR PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving
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