Marshfield Man Enters Plea
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 -- 8:16 AM
A Marshfield man arrested during a crimes against children operation in Marathon County entered a plea to the charges against him.The Marathon County Sheriff's Department, Wausau Police Department and the Everest Metro Police Department organized a local task force team to conduct an Internet Crimes against Children Operation called KG-2 Initiative. This operation was conducted January 14 and 15 of this year and the men believed they were communicating with a 15-year-old girl. Seven men were arrested in the operation and were from Neillsville, Marshfield, Wausau, Marathon, Tomahawk and Schofield.
Jason Weise was the man arrested from Marshfield and Jacob Smith was the man arrested from Neillsville.
Back in June, Weise pleaded guilty to a charge of child enticement-sexual contact and a charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime was dismissed and read in. On Friday, Weise was sentenced to 10 years probation with a condition of 1 year jail time. He must also register as a sex offender, have no contact with minor females, can have no access to computers or devices with internet capabilities and must be engaged in 5 hours of community service work per week.
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