Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, of Auxvasse, was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday, Callaway County Prosecutor Chris Wilson said.
Wilkerson, 71, appeared before special Judge Scott Hayes in the Callaway County Circuit Court. He was convicted for second-degree assault of a law enforcement officer in the second degree.
Wilkerson had pleaded guilty to the offense in 2015 when he acknowledged striking Auxvasse Police Chief Kevin Suedmeyer with a motor vehicle in January 2014 outside the 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.
The case for which Wilkerson was on probation was investigated by the Auxvasse Police Department. The new assault charges were investigated by the Callaway County Sheriff's Office.
Wilkerson has an extensive record on Missouri case.net.
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 also 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 owned 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 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.
He has an arraignment set at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Callaway District Court before Judge J. Hasbrouck Jacobs.
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