Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a road rage incident involving aggressive drivers and two competitive cyclists in Orange County.

The suspect, identified as Samir Weiss, is now in custody after a search warrant was executed at his Corona home Thursday night, authorities said. Officers seized a blue BMW M3 from the suspect’s home.

The March 21 incident happened while cyclists Ben Byra and Luke Fetzer were training for a Sunday race along Pacific Coast Highway and Bayshore Drive in Newport Beach.

Harrowing video shows a driver in a blue BMW, later identified by police as Weiss, appearing to get dangerously close to two cyclists who were riding in a bike lane along PCH and throwing objects at them.

A person behind the wheel of a black and red corvette, at least verbally, also reportedly joined in on the activities.

Footage of the incident has captured millions of views on Instagram, but the cyclists said part of the incident that doesn’t appear in the video was even more aggressive and potentially dangerous.

“A couple of lights down, they all got out of their cars trying to – I don’t know – tackle us or hit us. I don’t know what their plan was,” Byra said. “We’re going 30, 40 miles per hour downhill, so if they did touch us, it wouldn’t have been good for anyone.”

Competitive cyclists nearly run down by raging Orange County drivers

The cyclists, fortunately, were not injured in the incident.

Weiss is facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon and obstructing/delaying an arrest related to the incident. No further information was released.

Anyone with additional information can contact Sergeant Sabrina Fabbri at sfabbri@nbpd.org.

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