Christopher E. Hunt, the St. Charles County Sheriff's deputy who was charged and convicted of several crimes for his role in a 2009 Montgomery County drug raid, pled guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of peace disturbance that will allow him to continue to serve as law enforcement officer.According to a statement released by Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney Nathan A. Carroz, Hunt will be placed on probation for a period of one year under the condition that he complete 40 hours of community service and also serve one year of solely administrative duties with the sheriff's department which may be served retroactively.Hunt had been working in an administrative capacity since he was convicted of the charges in 2012.In the statement Carroz praised the various law enforcement agencies who were involved in the raid "for their efforts in attempting to do the right thing with regard to this matter."The plea deal ends a five year legal odyssey that wound its way to the Missouri Supreme Court.  In December the high court overturned two of the convictions in the case but remanded an assault charge back to the trial court which was resolved under the plea reached Wednesday.The deal effectively concludes a case that has attracted national attention from both fraternal police organizations and groups who target so-called rogue cops.Hunt was sentenced to five years in prison in 2012 by Warren County Judge Keith Sutherland after a polarizing trial that pitted police officer against police officer in court and which resulted in a rift between the Warren and St. Charles County sheriff’s departments that continues today.After Hunt’s conviction, St. Charles County Sheriff Tom Neer instructed his deputies not to travel into Warren or Montgomery counties to assist deputies with those departments.Members of both sheriff’s departments were part of multi-jurisdictional task force that took part in the raid on a mobile home in Middletown Feb. 5, 2009, to arrest a known methamphetamine dealer, Phillip Alberternst, who had two outstanding felony warrants.According to trial testimony, Hunt, who was not part of the operation, arrived on the scene after other officers, put on a tactical vest and kicked in an exterior door. Hunt apprehended Alberternst as he came out of a bathroom and wrestled him to the ground.At trial, some Warren and Montgomery County deputies testified that Hunt struck the suspect while he was in custody while others testified that the suspect resisted arrest.Hunt was convicted of felony burglary and two misdemeanor counts of property damage and assault.The case also attracted a trio of former Missouri Supreme Court judges, Edward D. Robertson Jr., Ronnie L. White and William Ray Price, who agreed to represent Hunt in his attempt to overturn his conviction.Lawyers familiar with the case and other high-profile lawsuits say it may have been the first time ever that three retired high court judges have teamed up to represent a defendant in a case after they left the bench.Robertson said earlier that the goal of having three former judges argue Hunt’s appeal sends a message to the court that this isn’t just another garden-variety criminal case.“This case is so darn important that we want to make sure the court understands the gravity of this case and that what happened here was plainly wrong. We can’t find another case where a police officer was charged or convicted with burglary while trying to apprehend a suspect who had a warrant out for his arrest. This is an unusually important case and we all wanted to be involved,” Robertson said last year.Earlier this year, the Missouri Court of Appeals reversed the deputy’s felony conviction in the case but upheld the misdemeanor assault charge.In December the Supreme Court reversed both the burglary and property damage convictions. It also reversed the assault charge ruling the trial court used improper jury instructions but remanded the case for a new trial on that lone count.At that time Carroz said he would not comment on whether he would retry Hunt on the assault charge.