Police: Bus Driver Pulled Baseball Bat on Competitor on Route 4

Bergen County Police have charged a 19-year-old jitney bus driver with pulling a baseball bat and threatening a competitor on Route 4 west in Teaneck Tuesday. 

A driver from Genesis Bus Lines called 911 around 6 p.m. to report a driver from a rival company was swinging a baseball bat at him, according to Bergen County Police Lt. James Mullin. Both drivers left the area after the confrontation. 

County officers found the buses on Route 4 west, near Forest Avenue in Paramus, and learned that Ariel Paulino, a driver with Spanish Transportation, was making physical and verbals threats to the other driver, police said. 

"It was also determined Paulino did in fact brandish and swing a baseball bat to intimidate the other driver," Mullin said, adding the baseball bat was recovered as evidence. 

Paulino, of Passaic, faces weapons possession and terroristic threats charges. He was released on his own recognizance ahead of a court hearing Thursday. 

Both bus companies are properly licensed and run shuttle service along Route 4 from Paterson to the George Washington Bridge, police said.