A Burnet County jury Tuesday found a restaurant cook not guilty of tampering with the food given to the Burnet police chief.

Jaime Perez was charged with Assault on a Police Office in the October 2008 incident.

Perez worked at Andy's Landing in Burnet. 

Prosecutors accused him of regularly spitting in Paul Nelson’s food and that he even bragged he rubbed the chief’s hamburger buns with his buns.

Perez was fired from his job and the restaurant is now closed.

His defense attorney said he was being sarcastic.  It took the jury 15 minutes to acquit Perez.

Watch story from 2008.