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The Associated Press
Barron, Wis.

Minnesota deputy charged in Wisconsin child sex crimes

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Jeffrey Jon Masek
Jeffrey Jon Masek, a Hennepin County deputy arrested in Wisconsin on child sex charges.
Courtesy of Barron County Jail

Updated: 3:58 p.m. | Posted: 8:20 a.m.

A sheriff's deputy from Minnesota has been jailed in northwestern Wisconsin on felony child sex crimes.

Sixty-year-old Jeffrey Masek is charged in Barron County with child enticement-sexual contact, attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child and using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime.

A criminal complaint says Masek responded to a personal ad placed by a Rice Lake police officer who posed as a 15-year-old girl.

The complaint said Masek exchanged explicit text messages with the officer and planned a meeting in Rice Lake on April 28. Police arrested Masek when he showed up.

During an interview with investigators, Masek acknowledged exchanging sexual messages. But he said he only showed up because he feared someone else would prey upon the girl.

Masek, of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, is a Hennepin County sheriff's deputy.

The sheriff's department says Masek has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation. Court documents do not list an attorney who can speak on Masek's behalf.

MPR News reporter Kirsti Marohn contributed to this report.