PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A man has been given a year of probation for knocking down a sanitation worker with his vehicle during an argument in an Omaha suburb.
Sarpy County District Court records say 63-year-old Dennis Stenner also was sentenced Wednesday to 20 hours of community service. He’d pleaded no contest to assault.
Cellphone video recorded by a Bellevue sanitation worker shows Stenner behind the wheel of his sport utility vehicle last October and blocking a garbage truck on a Bellevue street. Witnesses say he was angry because the garbage truck was blocking a street.
Authorities say sanitation worker Jesse Witzke got out of the garbage truck and asked Stenner to move. The video shows Stenner briefly backing up the SUV, then lurching forward and hitting Witzke. Witzke suffered only minor injuries.