A Jefferson City man was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest in connection with an incident that occurred in February 2014.
A Cole County Jury took about two hours before finding Wayne Kurtz Jr., 37, guilty, following a trial in May.
His sentence will run concurrent with all other sentences against him.
Kurtz was involved in an accident on U.S. 50 where his vehicle slid off the road and crashed into a bluff.
A passerby notified authorities of the crash and when Cole County Sheriff's Department deputies got there, they found Kurtz still behind the wheel and on his cell phone arranging for a tow.
Noticing he appeared to be drunk, deputies had Kurtz start to perform standard field sobriety tests, but after completing just one of those he became belligerent and refused to perform any more.
When told he was being arrested, Kurtz got into a struggle with a deputy, but was eventually taken to the ground and placed in custody.
A breath sample was obtained, and Kurtz 's blood alcohol content was found to be .125.
Prior to the trial, the court ruled Kurtz was a persistent DWI offender and a prior and persistent felony offender.