Burglar gets 30 years for assault

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man who has admitted to more than 100 car burglaries was sentenced to 30 years in prison for trying to hit three police officers with a stolen truck.

Donnie Emmert, 24, was sentenced Friday in Greene County court for aiming the truck at three officers on Nov. 21, 1999, as they tried to arrest him for car break-ins in motel lots.

He was sentenced for 15 years for assaulting Cpl. Bryan DiSylvester, 10 for assaulting Cpl. Ronnie Long and five for Officer Robert Schroeder. All of the sentences are to run consecutively.