Lynn man accused of hitting car with ex inside

LYNN – A judge ordered $2,500 cash bail for a city man who allegedly rammed his car into a vehicle whose passengers included the man’s ex-girlfriend and a 5-year-old child, during a car chase Friday.”While on Central Avenue coming off of the Lynn Commons a gray motor vehicle began beeping at the cruiser,” Lynn Police Officer Joseph Gorman wrote in a police report. “The operator was on the phone and said ?I’m on the phone with the police and her ex-boyfriend is following us! He just rammed into us with his car!'”Jeffrey Lopez, 24, of 13 Chatham St. #2, was arrested and charged with failure to stop for police; leaving the scene of property damage; operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license; assault with a dangerous weapon, two counts; and assault and battery; at 8:21 p.m. Friday.He was arraigned on the charges Monday in Lynn District Court where a plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf.An officer reported he was taking an arrest to the station at approximately 6:18 p.m. Friday when the gray car pulled alongside the cruiser and pointed out a black car that was following them. Police said officers stopped and spoke to the alleged victims and then tried to stop the black vehicle, making eye contact with the driver and telling him to pull over.Instead, both cars drove off.The alleged victims in the gray car – Lopez’s ex-girlfriend, another woman and a 5-year-old child – went to the police station. They told police they were waiting in the car for a friend to drive them to Walmart when Lopez pulled up behind them. Lopez’s ex-girlfriend told police she said Lopez was going to ram them with his car, so the other woman jumped into the front seat and drove off, with Lopez behind, according to police. Police said the alleged victims reported no injuries.A third woman, meanwhile, came to police and said she had been driving the black car and gotten into an accident with “?those people ? in the room I had just walked out from,'” Lynn Police Officer Max Saravia wrote in a report. The woman later admitted Lopez was driving her vehicle but he had no driver’s license, according to police. Police saw a small amount of damage on the vehicle’s front bumper, according to reports.Police went to Lopez’s house and had to draw their weapons when he allegedly began backing away from them and reached into his front right pocket. Police said Lopez pulled out a scale.Lopez said the woman in the gray car backed into him, and she was driving without a license. (Police cited her for driving without a license; and the owners of each vehicle for allowing an unlicensed operator to drive).Essex Assistant District Attorney Andrew Boyd requested Lopez be held on $5,000 cash bail and that he stay away and have no contact with the alleged victims.Judge Ellen Flatley cited Lopez’s “lengthy record,” which includes state prison time, in ordering $2,500 cash bail.