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Clarkstown Police officers responded to the area of the Calvary Drive commuter lot in New City at 5:30 p.m. for a report of an assault. Once on scene, they found a 27-year-old female taxi driver from West Haverstraw, who told officers she picked up a man from Beechwood Lane in Garnerville. She was going to drop him off at the commuter lot on Calvary Drive in New City so he could get a bus to New York City, when the man put a knife to her throat and demanded she take him to New York City, Walker said.
The taxi driver instinctively tried to push the knife away when she suffered a cut to her thumb. The man, identified as Joshua Bray, 30, of Manhattan, fled the scene on foot and was found a short distance away on Route 304, Walker said.
The victim was treated for a minor laceration at Nyack Hospital. The knife was not found at the scene.
Bray was charged with felony assault, felony attempted kidnapping and criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held at the Rockland County Jail on $75,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday, Sept. 16.
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