A Collin County District court jury found a former Frisco Police Department narcotics detective guilty of one felony count of falsely reporting details about a drug bust in central Frisco in July 2003.

Jonathan Cain, 32, a 10-year police veteran, had worked for the Frisco PD from March 2001 until he was fired on July 31, 2003 when the Frisco Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division presented the criminal cases against him before the Collin County Grand Jury.

He was sentenced to six months in prison -- the minimum prison time for the state jail felony. His attorney, John Heath of Nacogdoches, said he would appeal the conviction this week and try to get Cain released on bond. Cain faced five years of prison time on the two counts. According to a source in the Collin County District Attorney's Office, no record of an appeal was seen as of yesterday.

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