Man pleads guilty after more than two years

After more than two years, Timothy William Kendrick pleaded guilty to driving while revoked (felony level) during the Oct. 8 session of Ozark County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to four years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, SES, and five years probation. An SES, or suspended execution of sentence, means Kendrick was sentenced to the prison term but was placed on probation. He will not go to prison unless he violates the terms of his probation.

Kendrick was charged with driving while revoked in January 2023 and originally arraigned in Ozark County Circuit Court on Aug. 9, 2023. The case was continued because of the death of Kendrick’s father and Kendrick’s continued physical rehabilitation from a stroke. 

After the case was continued several more times over the next two years because of Kendrick’s health and hospital stays and failing to appear in court several times, Kendrick was discovered to be in the Greene County Jail in May 2025, where he was serving a 120-day sentence for stealing a 2001 maroon Dodge truck in Springfield in December 2024.