YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 20-year-old Fair Lawn man is named in an indictment charging him with trying to run down a borough police officer who had him cornered on a dead end street.
Adam T. Vivat “attempted to cause serious bodily injury” to Officer Juan Rodriguez the night of Jan. 7, the indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack alleges.””
Rodriguez was investigating a suspicious vehicle report on Essex Street when he said he spotted Vivat trying to hide what appeared to be drugs in a gray 2010 Mazda.
Vivat then “U-turned at the dead end of Essex Place and directed his vehicle at P.O. Rodriguez before fleeing west onto Morlot Avenue,” Sgt. Brian Metzler said following his arrest three days later.
Rodriguez avoided the fleeing vehicle and wasn’t injured.
Authorities obtained an arrest warrant for Vivat, then impounded the Mazda after finding it on 14th Street, Metzler said.
Vivat turned himself in three days later.
Besides the criminal aggravated assault charges, he received summonses for failing to stop at a stop sign, careless driving, disregarding a police officer’s signal to stop, making an improper U-turn and failing to signal, Metzler said.
Vivat spent 12 days in the Bergen County Jail before posting $50,000 bail on Jan. 22, records show.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
