RENO COUNTY – A Kansas man who entered a plea to a single count of making a criminal threat, while the state dropped all the other charges against him, was granted one year of probation on Friday.

Kerry Getz, 62, had been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery causing reckless bodily harm and criminal damage to property, but as a part of a plea agreement, the state dropped all the other charges.

On March 17, a sub-contracted employee of Westar Energy was at the Getz home replacing electrical meters on the houses in the area.

Getz became angry and began arguing with the Westar worker, Carter Coulteur who then fled to his truck for safety.

Getz then allegedly followed him in his own vehicle and blocked in the worker.

Another confrontation occurred and Getz allegedly damaged the Westar vehicle and attempted to take property from the truck.

In one of the verbal exchanges, he made the comment to the Westar employee that he had a weapon and may have to use it.

Getz also used his vehicle to run the Westar vehicle off the road.

The employee was able to escape with no injuries.