CANTON, Ohio — A Ukrainian man due for deportation is accused of assaulting a State Highway Patrol trooper with a chemical substance similar to Mace.

        Eduard Ryumshin was arrested after driving on Interstate 77 in Guernsey County following the attack Friday in a driver's license station in Canton.

        The patrol said Mr. Ryumshin, 34, of Kiev, matched the description of the man who sprayed the face of Trooper Rayetta Calhoun. A container holding a chemical substance used in the assault was found inside his car, according to the patrol.

        Mr. Ryumshin was charged with felony counts of assault, tampering with records, forgery and possession of criminal tools and misdemeanor resisting arrest.

        Canton Municipal Judge Stephen Belden set Mr. Ryumshin's bond at $250,000 on Monday.

        Ryumshin did not enter a plea. He has a hearing on Friday in Stark County Common Pleas Court.

        Trooper Calhoun was called to a drivers' exam station about a man who presented a fraudulent Social Security card and a fraudulent resident alien card, hoping to obtain an Ohio Identification Card, said Sgt. Don Ebie of the patrol's Canton-area post.

        Sgt. Ebie said Trooper Calhoun arrived at the drivers' exam station as Mr. Ryumshin was leaving the license station.

        According to the patrol, she asked him to stop as he was leaving but he quickly turned and sprayed a substance similar to Mace in her face.

        Then he drove away.

        Calhoun was treated at Aultman Hospital and released.

        Lt. John Born of the patrol's headquarters in Columbus said the a state identification card is available to people who need some form of Ohio ID, but it does not entitle a person to drive.

        In August 1999, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered that Ryumshin be deported but the agency was unable to obtain a travel document to get him back into the Ukraine.

        , said Mark Hansen, INS district director in Cleveland. The INS has been monitoring Ryumshin since then.

        Mark Hansen, INS district director in Cleveland, said when Mr. Ryumshin's criminal case and possible sentence are completed he will enter INS custody until he is deported.

        “He may be in our custody for a long, long time,” Hansen said.

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