Traffic & Transit

CT Man Throws Knife In Mass Pike Road Rage: Police

The vehicles cut another one off in an incident that included "brake jobs," lights being flashed and gestures being expressed, police said.

The knife that police said Joshua Garrey threw into another car on the Mass Pike.
The knife that police said Joshua Garrey threw into another car on the Mass Pike. (State Police)

AUBURN, MA — A Connecticut man was arrested after what police said was a road rage incident in which he threw a knife into another car on the Mass Pike Sunday night.

State Police said two people inside a BMW were injured after Joshua Garrey, 26, of Wethersfield, CT, threw a folding pocket knife from his Jeep. It came after one of the vehicles cut another one off in an incident that included "brake jobs," lights being flashed and gestures being expressed, police said.

The two people inside the BMW, a 22-year-old man and 23-year-old woman from Middletown, CT, had minor injuries.

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Garrey was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, following too closely, throwing an object on a highway and failure to use care and caution. He was released on $500 bail and will be arraigned in Worcester District Court.

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