CATSKILL – State Police have charged a 29-year-old New York Army National Guard military policeman with first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree menacing and DWI after he allegedly fired a gun in the direction of an occupied vehicle.

State Police said James Hernandez of West Coxsackie had been involved in an altercation on Route 9W in the Town of New Baltimore around 1 a.m. on September 10. During that altercation, Hernandez, who was in his Army National Guard uniform, pulled out a handgun and threatened the occupants of a vehicle with it. He knew the people in the car; they had all been drinking together at a local bar before the altercation.

After a brief struggle over the weapon, Hernandez fired one round in the direction of the occupied vehicle. The car was not struck and none of the occupants was injured.

Hernandez was arraigned and remanded to the Greene County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond.