WESTFIELD – A city man is facing numerous criminal charges after allegedly ramming two vehicles – one of them a police cruiser – with his 2002 Kia Sportage utility vehicle.
Police reports that the Wednesday night event occurred after they had responded to a disturbance call at a Lindbergh Boulevard address.
Officer Sean Smith reports that, although he had twice been told to leave the area, Charles York, 35, of 14 Lindbergh Boulevard, returned to the apartment building where officers were on hand because he had been involved in an altercation with his wife.
Smith reports in a court document that York was seen “operating in reverse at a high rate of speed and intentionally reaming his vehicle into a parked car, a 2006 Chrysler 300” parked in the apartment building’s small parking. The car which was struck was moved by the impact, striking and damaging a small shed on the property and a neighbor’s fence.
“As Officers moved in to stop the defendant, he intentionally drove his vehicle into the front end of a parked Police Cruiser after first stopping and acknowledging that the cruiser was in front of him. An Officer was still present in the driver’s seat of that cruiser,” the report continues.
Officer Patrick Shea was not reported to have been injured in the resulting collision.
York was arrested for two charges of vandalizing property, two charges of malicious damage to a motor vehicle, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a motor vehicle) and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
York appeared for arraignment yesterday in Westfield District Court before Judge William Rota and was released on his personal recognizance pending a Jan. 6 hearing.
