State police refile rage charges against Pa. judge

MERCER, Pa. (AP) — State police have refiled terroristic threat and other charges against a district judge accused of waving a gun during a traffic dispute in northwestern Pennsylvania.

A Mercer district judge last month dismissed the charges saying prosecutors didn’t clearly show at a preliminary hearing that Erie District Judge Tom Carney was driving the car at the time of the Jan. 11 traffic dispute on Interstate 79.

Carney contends two college students who claimed he waved the gun at them as their vehicle passed his had fueled the alleged road rage dispute. The students acknowledged at the hearing Aug. 6 that Carney didn’t point the gun at them, but say he waved it in their general direction.

Carney was elected to a six-year term in 2005 and has a license to carry the gun.