A Columbia Falls man has pleaded not guilty to his sixth charge and what could be his fifth conviction for drunk driving.

Rusty Sweeney, 42, entered his plea to the felony charge Thursday in Flathead District Court.

Sweeney was arrested Feb. 8 after a deputy responded to a single-vehicle crash on Woodland Road in Columbia Falls. Sweeney allegedly got his pickup truck stuck on a snowbank, according to a court document. He allegedly displayed several signs of intoxication and failed several field-sobriety tests.

The deputy also reported seeing an open alcoholic beverage in the vehicle’s cup holder.

The charging document states Sweeney previously was convicted of drunk driving in February 1990, April 1993, April 1996 and November 1999. He was also convicted of criminal endangerment, amended from an original charge of felony drunk driving, in January 2010.

Felony drunk driving is punishable by 13 months in a residential alcohol treatment program run by the Montana Department of Corrections, a consecutive, suspended sentence of five years either to the corrections department or the Montana State Prison, or between 13 months and five years of incarceration with the corrections department if the defendant has already been placed in treatment due to a prior conviction.

It also carries a fine of between $1,000 and $10,000.

Sweeney was initially incarcerated in the Flathead County Detention Center, where his bond was set at $30,000, but he posted bond and was released under the condition that he wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet.

His next hearing is set for April 9.