A Staten Island man is accused of calling in a fake 911 report about a knife fight in Saddle Brook before intentionally crashing into a police vehicle and fleeing, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Peter Soliman, 26, was charged with filing a fictitious report, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, and eluding following the incident on Tuesday, June 9, according to Saddle Brook Police Chief John A. Zotollo Jr.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a 911 call reporting a fight involving a possible knife in the parking lot of 189 Route 46 West, police said.\u00a0Police arrived and determined the reported fight never happened.<\/p>\n
While investigating the call, officers spotted a blue Ford van leaving the parking lot at a high rate of speed and heading west on Route 46, according to police. At the time, officers did not know whether the vehicle was connected to the reported fight.<\/p>\n
A short time later, an officer located the van near North 6th Street, police said.\u00a0According to investigators, Soliman reversed the van and intentionally struck a Saddle Brook police vehicle before fleeing a short distance and stopping on a nearby side street.<\/p>\n
Police took Soliman into custody at the scene.\u00a0Investigators later determined that Soliman had placed the false 911 call himself.\u00a0Both the officer and Soliman were taken to a hospital with minor injuries from the crash, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Further investigation on the scene by the Saddle Brook Police revealed that Soliman called in the bogus 9-1-1 fight report, hoping to distract the officers, his specific motivation remained unknown as of press time.<\/p>\n
Soliman was charged with fourth-degree fictitious report to law enforcement, second-degree aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, second-degree eluding, and multiple motor vehicle violations, police said.<\/p>\n
After being released from the hospital, Soliman was remanded to the Bergen County Jail pending his first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Staten Island man is accused of calling in a fake 911 report about a knife fight in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[101855,101856,34839,9,24,63,101852,101854,101853,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-262386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-bergen-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-fight-report","tag-law-enforcement-officer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-peter-soliman","tag-police-vehicle","tag-saddle-brook","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}