Steve Lieberman

slieberm@lohud.com

An 18-year-old Monsey man has been charged with pointing what turned out to be an Airsoft BB gun at another driver during an apparent road rage confrontation in Sullivan County, police said.

Gedaliya Rauch was charged Sunday with misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and menacing, Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Chaboty said. Rauch was driving a car equipped to resemble an umarked police vehicle, with tinted windows and two fake radio antennas mounted on the trunk, Chaboty said.

The BB gun was found under the front seat of the black 2014 Dodge Charger after it was stopped off Route 17 near exit 106 by sheriff's deputies, state police and Monticello officers.

Rauch was ordered held on $2,500 bail in the Sullivan County jail after being arraigned by Thompson Town Justice Martin Miller.

Monroe man faces DWI, drug charges

Thomas Gooler, 27, of Monroe, faces charges of driving drunk after an accident on Route 45 as well as possessing marijuana and high-powered fireworks, Ramapo police said Thursday.

Gooler's 2002 Ford Focus hit another vehicle near 775 Route 45 in Ramapo and he then drove off at 10:43 p.m. Wednesday, police said. An officer stopped the Focus on Viola and College roads, based on reported damage to the car's rear bumper, police said.

An officer later charged Gooler at the police station with driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and unlawful possession of marijuana. Fireworks also found in his car spurred charges of unlawfully dealing with fireworks and dangerous fireworks for possessing M-98 fireworks.

Ramapo cop hit by car; driver faces DWI

A Ramapo police officer suffered injuries after being hit Wednesday by a car driven by an alleged drunken driver near Pomona and Summit Park roads, police said.

The officer was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital and is expected to be released, said police, who would not provide his name. He had been assigned to monitor traffic at the intersection when he was clipped by the 2007 Subaru.

Police charged Robert Mahoney, 24, of Stony Point with driving while intoxicated.