Police say they’ll speak with a prosecutor about what charges to file against a man they say repeatedly threatened and spit on officers and EMTs following his arrest over the weekend.

According to a police report, officers say they could smell alcohol on the breath of 53-year-old Robert Yambar Sunday evening when they arrested him at his East Midlothian Boulevard home on previously filed charges of aggravated menacing and assault.

Police say Yambar became dead weight and refused to cooperate with them as two officers carried him to a cruiser.

Officers say Yambar threatened officers and “continued his incoherent ramblings” as he was taken to police headquarters.

As he was being booked, police called for an ambulance after Yambar said police were killing him, and that he couldn’t breathe and was having a heart attack.

Although he was handcuffed, the police report states that Yambar threatened to beat the four officers and punch the police dispatcher, naming them individually by reading their name tags.

As EMTs from Struthers and Poland arrived, police say Yambar tried to spit on them.   The report says they placed several surgical masks on Yambar, which he managed to slide off his face and continue spitting.

Once sedated and strapped into a stretcher, Yambar left in an ambulance for Mercy Hospital in Boardman.  While en route, police got a call for help from EMTs on board the ambulance saying that Yambar was trying to get out of the handcuffs and was spitting.

An EMT accidentally pushed a button that sends out an alert when there is a “man down”, and half a dozen Boardman Police cruisers responded.

A spit shield was placed on Yambar, who was sedated again after arriving at the hospital.

It wasn’t until 12 hours after his initial arrest that Yambar was able to be taken to the county jail.