(Knox, IN) - A former Starke County sheriff’s deputy has been given jail time.

Don Ferguson pleaded guilty yesterday to filing a false police report.

In return, he received a 60 day sentence in the Starke County Jail followed by four months on probation on the misdemeanor charge. 

This comes after a jury last month found him not guilty on four counts and came back undecided on the remaining four counts. 

Those charges resulted from an investigation focused on cash and drugs that went missing from the evidence room at the sheriff’s office in 2020.