CHARDON, Ohio-
A trucker is accused of throwing iron ore at passing motorists over the past three months because he was angry they wouldn’t turn off their bright headlights.
Glenn Rogers Jr., 40, of Elyria, told Geauga County Sheriff deputies that he was mad at westbound drivers who wouldn’t dim their high beams as he passed them on state Route 422 about 25 miles southeast of Cleveland, Sheriff Dan McClelland said.
Rogers pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of vehicular vandalism in Chardon Municipal Court on Wednesday. More charges are possible because some motorists were injured.
“This was not an accident, something accidentally falling out of his hand,” McClelland said. “This was a deliberate act.”
The department took more than 30 calls reporting broken windshields caused by the rocks since September.
The case had been a mystery to deputies until earlier this week when a woman whose windshield was broken followed the truck she believed the rock came from and called 911.
Deputies pulled over the semi-truck and found 15 lemon-sized pieces of black ore, used in steelmaking, in the cab. Bits of ore were found in many of the cars in the previous cases, McClelland said.
