MOUNT PLEASANT, NY — A 19-year-old man was arrested after allegedly pointing a handgun at a school bus driver during a road rage incident on the Taconic State Parkway.
New York State Police at Hawthorne received a walk-in complaint on Feb. 4, 2026, regarding a menacing incident involving a firearm that occurred on the Taconic State Parkway southbound near Exit 3.
The complainant reported that while operating a school bus occupied by a bus monitor and three special-needs children, he was the victim of a road rage incident involving the operator of another vehicle.
During the incident, the operator of the vehicle pointed a handgun at the bus driver.
Following an investigation, the suspect vehicle was located later that evening traveling northbound on the Taconic State Parkway.
Members of State Police Hawthorne and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, assisted by the Troop K Community Stabilization Unit while assigned to the District Attorney’s Safer Highway initiative, conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle.
The operator was identified as Michael L. Alarcon, 19, of Mahopac, who was found to be operating with a suspended New York State driver’s license.
A subsequent inventory of the vehicle resulted in the recovery of a loaded handgun.
Alarcon was taken into custody and transported to State Police Hawthorne for processing and charged with criminal possession of a weapon 2nd (loaded firearm), a class C felony; criminal possession of a weapon 3rd (ammunition feeding device), a class D felony; criminal possession of a weapon 3rd (defaced for concealment), a class D felony; menacing 2nd (weapon), a class A misdemeanor; three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, class A misdemeanors; and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle 3rd, an unclassified misdemeanor.
Alarcon is currently awaiting arraignment before the Town of Mount Pleasant Court.
