Indictment returned against Fair Lawn driver charged with grabbing officer’s gun, smearing blood on jail cell walls, spitting, urinating

ONLY ON CVP: A Russian-born Israel citizen who authorities said grabbed an officer’s gun, damaged the inside of a police car and then urinated on himself, spit at officers and smeared blood on the walls of his holding cell after a drunk-driving chase was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

01/25/2015 5:26 p.m.

Bergen County Police Officer Christopher Sullivan was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with an injured shoulder and several cuts and bruises after subduing Evgeni Yampolski on Nov. 14 outside his Fair Lawn home.

The brawl followed a chase from Route 4 in Paramus that law enforcement sources at the time told CLIFFVIEW PILOT reached speeds of up to 100 miles an hour.

Yampolsk, who was driving a Mazda CX-7, is charged in the indictment with:

fleeing in a motor vehicle, after receiving a signal to stop, “in a manner creating risk of death or injury”;
“attempting to exercise unlawful control” of Sullivan’s gun;

aggravated assault on a police officer;

threatening violence against Sullivan and two other police officers — from the BCPD and the other from Fair Lawn — and a county detective.
Yampolski posted $35,000 bail and was released hours after the incident.

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