It was supposed to be the routine visit to a Somerset home to get information for the U.S. Census, but instead a worker got quite a scare.
“I’ve been threatened, I’m a U.S. Census worker. A gentlemen has hit my car…..open the door and he threatened me,” the worker is heard crying and her voice quivering in the 911 recording.
The caller says she went to 307 Ky. Hwy.192 and Dana Hicks answered the door, saying he wanted no part of her work. But when she says she tried to leave, she says things got violent.
“He told me to get out of his driveway, and I was trying to get out of his driveway, and he come running at me,” the worker tells the 911 dispatcher.
She told police he rammed her car..but while on the phone with the dispatcher..
“He just hit me with his car, he’s starting to hit me with his truck, He’s…. he’s ramming me with his truck!”
Dana Hicks gave his side of the story over the phone but said he didn’t want to talk on camera. He says that he never threatened the census worker, he says it was the second time he had been visited by a worker, that didn’t want to fill out the form, that he asked her to leave but she wouldn’t.
Police say Hicks never gave them a clear reason for his actions.
“It was like he was confused. I don’t know if he was having a medical issue or any other issues, causing him to act that way,” said Pulaski County Sheriff Todd Wood.
Hicks was charged with wanton endangerment and was released from jail after posting bond.
