Wilkerson in court

On Monday, an Auxvasse man pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree and resisting arrest.

Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, 72, admitted attacking another man with a rake this past November. According to court reports, Wilkerson struck the man in the arm with the rake causing minor injuries.

In circuit court before Judge Kevin Crane, Wilkerson also admitted he resisted when deputies attempted to arrest him on the charge. Crane sentenced Wilkerson to four years in prison for the assault and three years in prison for the resisting charge.

The judge ordered Wilkerson serve the sentences concurrently with one another and concurrently with a two-year prison sentence he received for tampering with a judicial officer in a Boone County investigation and a five-year prison sentence he received for assault of a law enforcement officer in Callaway County from 2014, for which he had been on probation. The latest case was investigated by the Callaway County Sheriff's Office.

In February, Wilkerson was sentenced to five years - appearing before special Judge Scott Hayes in Callaway County Circuit Court. He was convicted of second-degree assault of a law-enforcement officer, a charge he pleaded guilty to in 2015 after striking Auxvasse Police Chief Kevin Suedmeyer with a motor vehicle in January 2014 outside the Auxvasse City Hall building.

Wilkerson was placed on probation at the time of his guilty plea. Following a contested hearing before Hayes, the court found Wilkerson violated probation by committing new assaults in November and physically resisting deputies who attempted to take him into custody for those new offenses.

As previously reported, Wilkerson has an extensive record.

He was charged with assault and poaching in 1996, and a felony conviction of discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle in 2002. He also was charged with animal abuse in a case dating from April 2013.

He is a convicted sex offender for a crime committed on a 13-year-old female in 1974 in Shasta County, California. More information can be found on the Missouri Highway Patrol's Sex Offender Registry.

In 2014, Wilkerson was disqualified for running for a seat on the Auxvasse board of aldermen after he missed the first filing deadline and also owed the city money for past-due utility bills.

In April 2015, he pleaded guilty to tampering with a city owed water meter, admitting he turned off the water and padlocked the water meter valve to a residence inhabited by one of his tenants, despite the fact the water bill was paid.

In early 2016, Wilkerson was arrested after law enforcement officers were told he'd made threats against Judge Gary Oxenhandler to VA hospital staff in Columbia. He was charged with tampering with a judicial officer. That case was moved to Cole County's 19th Judicial Circuit Court on May 4.

On Jan. 3, Wilkerson also was charged with second-degree assault, resisting arrest and fourth-degree assault while already incarcerated in the Callaway County Jail for a probation violation. These charges were the result of a Nov. 23 Callaway County Sheriff's Office investigation conducted at an Auxvasse residence. In that incident, Wilkerson was struggling with two deputies while being taken into custody.