Two Santa Fe men face criminal charges in connection with a south-side Santa Fe road rage incident Thursday afternoon during which another man accused them of threatening him with a shotgun.
Jonathan Mora, 29, and Austin Peterson, 25, were both arrested and booked into the Santa Fe County jail after being involved in a crash an hour after the incident was reported.
A man told police he was riding a motorcycle on Cerrillos Road near the intersection of N.M. 599 when a driver in an older model purple Ford Mustang nearly struck him at the traffic light and then followed him north, according to a police affidavit filed against both men.
Police wrote the man alleged the Mustang — apparently being driven by Peterson — passed him on the shoulder of the road and that the passenger, who police identified as Mora, then stuck his body out of the car and pointed a single-barrel shotgun at the man, saying, “What? What? You have a problem?”
Police had received several calls Thursday about the driver of the purple Mustang “road-raging” on Cerrillos and running other drivers off the road, the affidavit says.
Less than an hour after the man reported the incident to police, the two in the purple Mustang were involved in a crash at Agua Fría Road and Lopez Lane, police wrote. Officers wrote a shotgun was found underneath a blanket in the back seat of the vehicle as well as a handgun.
Peterson faces a slew of misdemeanor charges including drunken driving, careless driving and negligent use of a deadly weapon, and Mora faces a felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as well as a charge of concealing identity, according to criminal complaints filed against the two in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.