CAPE MAY - A toll collector who allegedly shot a paintball gun at another vehicle in a Garden State Parkway road rage incident has been fired from his $44,452-a-year job.
Jason Glassey, 31, is already facing criminal charges from the Nov. 21 incident, in which police said he fired on a van that cut him off in traffic as Glassey drove home after his shift at the Parkway's Cape May toll plaza.
Glassey, who was wearing his toll taker uniform, fired several times at the van, splattering its side with blue paint pellets, police said.
The driver of the van continued north on the Parkway before alerting state police. Glassey was pulled over minutes later and charged with possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
During an ensuing investigation, the New Jersey Highway Authority discovered that Glassey had been giving motorists Garden State Parkway promotional pamphlets that had been altered, with defaced photos of Gov. James E. McGreevey and Parkway chief Timothy McDonough, officials said.
Glassey, the son of South Jersey Transportation Authority Vice Chairman Stanley R. Glassey, was fired Tuesday by the Highway Authority's board of commissioners, spokesman Joe Orlando said.
It was the paintball incident that prompted the decision, Orlando said.
"The bottom line is, he's a toll collector - he represents this authority - and the behavior was just beyond acceptable terms," said Orlando.
The elder Glassey, reached Tuesday night by The Press of Atlantic City, said that neither he nor his son would have any comment.
