By Associated Press - Wednesday, June 8, 2016

GARRETSON, S.D. (AP) - The business manager for the Garretson School District is accused of soliciting a minor.

Fifty-eight-year-old Rodney Fischer was arrested Tuesday at the district office. He’s scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday afternoon.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Fischer had an attorney, and a home telephone listing for him couldn’t be found.



Superintendent Guy Johnson says Fischer remains employed with the school district.

Court documents show that a special agent with Homeland Security in Sioux Falls received a tip from the agency’s San Jose, California, office that an undercover agent had talked with a Sioux Falls man interested in having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Authorities say Fischer sent sexually explicit messages to someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

Fischer is being held on $500,000 bond.

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