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Man rams pickup into DSS building

By Bill Moss, Published: February 13, 2013

A 30-year-old man in a dispute with social workers was charged with damaging property and resisting officers after he allegedly rammed his pickup truck through the front doors of the Henderson County Human Services building Tuesday night.Henderson County sheriff's deputies charged Jorge Bravo Perez, of 47 Boulder Heights Lane in Hendersonville, with one count each of injury to real property, resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer and giving false information to an officer after the incident at 5:45 p.m. at the agency on Spartanburg Highway.
Deputies were at Perez's home investigating a domestic dispute when they learned he may be headed to the Department of Social Services building to try to force his way in and get to his child, the sheriff's department said in a news release.
"As officers were responding to this information Bravo-Perez backed his vehicle through the front doors of the Health Department building which is connected with DSS," spokesman Frank Stout said. "Officers immediately arrived and took him into custody."
The pickup rammed through the front doors into the foyer area but Perez did not actually gain access to the agency and staff area. No one was injured. Estimated damage to the building was $3,000.
Perez is currently jailed in the Henderson County Detention Facility under $17,000 bond.