Man from Maine sentenced for hitting Missouri trooper with car

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) – A man from Maine has been sentenced to prison after he admitted to intentionally hitting a Missouri state trooper.

Galen Sailer, of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, was sentenced Monday to a total of 20 years.

Prosecutors said he admitted he hit the trooper in a parking lot after a traffic stop in Lebanon, Missouri, in February 2021.

The trooper suffered a fractured bone. The trooper said at the time Sailer said his brother had been killed by a police officer in Arizona.

Before his sentencing, Sailer pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree assault, leaving the scene of an accident and property damage.