Hennepin County Deputy Faces Sexual Misconduct Charges: Reports

WRIGHT COUNTY, MN — A Hennepin County sheriff’s deputy faces charges after he was accused of raping a woman while off-duty over the weekend, according to reports.

Jared Kenneth Sprunk is charged with criminal sexual conduct, KSTP reported, after hours of drunken partying early Sunday morning in Wright County ended with the 33-year-old St. Michael resident’s arrest.

Sprunk has been placed on administrative leave pending an external investigation, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office told KARE 11.

Sprunk had been with the victim and her friends at a bar in Albertville, and she invited him to her friend’s house, according to KSTP, where she rejected his advances.

He appeared too intoxicated to safely leave, so the victim brought him to a bedroom to sleep, where he became forceful, told her she had to sleep with him and laid on top of her, eventually ripping off her pants and raping her, KSTP reported.

Sprunk told law enforcement he did not have sex with the victim and that he remembered little from early Sunday morning, according to KSTP.

"Our office supports a full and transparent investigation into the alleged off-duty conduct by this HCSO deputy,” the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office told KARE 11 in a statement.