PITTSBURGH — A man who told police he got a sense of euphoria from dropping rocks and bricks from a railroad trestle over a Pittsburgh-area interstate will spend five to 10 years in prison.

Fifty-year-old Jeffrey Angelo Ramous, of Scott Township, was sentenced Monday. He had previously pleaded no contest in February to 40 counts: 10 each of aggravated assault, risking catastrophe, propulsion of missiles onto roadways and reckless endangerment.

Ramous told police he used scanners to monitor police and trains near the trestle over Interstate 279 a few miles west of the city.

Ramous was arrested in March 2007 and charged for incidents up to two years before in which at least 12 cars were hit and two drivers were hurt. Ramous told police he was sometimes drunk or high on marijuana.