An Upstate New York man has been arrested after allegedly throwing a hatchet in a road rage incident.<\/p>\n
Tyler A. Donaldson, 48, of Hermon, N.Y., is accused of throwing a small axe at another vehicle in a road rage incident last summer. New York State Police said he was charged Monday, more than 6 months later, with reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree (intent to use).<\/p>\n
Trooper said they were first notified of the incident July 31, 2025. Police said an investigation determined a man driving a silver Toyota 4Runner became irritated with the driver of a 2019 Chevrolet Equinox, which had slowed down due to road work on Star Road in the Clinton County town of Ellenburg.<\/p>\n
Police the 4Runner operator, later identified Donaldson, passed the other vehicle and threw a hatchet. It struck the victim\u2019s vehicle and caused damage.<\/p>\n
Troopers said they later made contact with Donaldson regarding the incident. He agreed to report to NYS Police in Champlain for processing and was charged Feb. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n
He was released on an appearance ticket for the Town of Altona Court later this month.<\/p>\n
Additional details were not disclosed. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Hermon is located in St. Lawrence County, approximately 80 miles west of Ellenburg and 120 miles north of Syracuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upstate New York man has been arrested after allegedly throwing a hatchet in a road rage incident.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53591,53376,53592,18135,18565,2478,53593,53594,53595,53596,53597,53598,53599,53600,53601,53602,46998,36822,1213,53603,53604,53605,53606,53607,10628,1722,3089,53608,53609,9,11,10,49,51,50,53610,16631,53611,53612,53613,49291],"class_list":["post-122541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-artisan","tag-ax","tag-axes","tag-boat","tag-boats","tag-boots","tag-butchers","tag-cook","tag-cooks","tag-deserted","tag-desks","tag-desktop","tag-footware","tag-handcraft","tag-handicraft","tag-handicrafts","tag-knife","tag-knives","tag-labor","tag-laboring","tag-labors","tag-labour","tag-labouring","tag-labours","tag-market","tag-markets","tag-meals","tag-meat-market","tag-meats","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-no-one","tag-nobody","tag-office-job","tag-office-work","tag-office-works","tag-offices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}