A taxi driver was arrested Tuesday after attacking another vehicle with a baseball bat during a dispute in Des Plaines, police said.

Ali Nadzhafaliyev, 61, of the 2700 block of West Summerdale Avenue in Chicago, is charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to property.

A cab from the 303 Taxi company swerved in front of a vehicle driven by a Des Plaines man and then drove into oncoming traffic as they were headed east on Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village on Aug. 16, authorities said.

When both cars stopped for a red light at Elmhurst Road and Touhy Avenue, Nadzhafaliyev exited his taxi, punched one of the windows of the other car several times and tried to open a locked door, police said.

Both cars headed east again but stopped for a red light at Touhy Avenue and Mount Prospect Road. Th

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