Bend man arrested on charges of ‘overtly sexual’ online contact, attempting to meet with deputy posing as underage girl

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man who allegedly engaged in “overtly sexual communications” online with someone he believed to be a minor female, but who actually was a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy, was arrested Sunday night when he showed up at a store to meet her, deputies said.

The sheriff’s office initiated an investigation in the last month regarding alleged online sexual corruption of a child and luring of a minor by Jeffrey Scot Kingsbury, 47, Sergeant Jason Wall said.

During the investigation, Kingsbury allegedly “engaged in overtly sexual conversations with whom he believed to be a minor female under the age of 16,” over a social media platform, Wall said in a news release.

The contacts included sending “intimate images of himself to the alleged minor," the sergeant said, and that he “described/requested explicit acts from the alleged minor,” who told him they were under the age of 16, but actually was a sheriff's patrol deputy.

On Sunday, Kingsbury offered to meet the alleged minor female in the area of Riverwoods Country Store on Baker Road in Deschutes River Woods, south of Bend, Wall said. He also sent photos of the vehicle he would be driving.

Surveillance was conducted and Kingsbury was seen entering the area around 8:15 p.m. Several deputies and a K-9 team converged on the vehicle after Kingsbury got out and he was taken into custody without incident.

“Kingsbury was found to have brought a criminal amount of methamphetamine with him to meet the alleged minor female,” Wall said.

Kingsbury was booked into the county jail on charges of first-degree online sexual corruption of a child, luring a minor and third-degree sexual abuse. Jail records showed he was being held without bail pending arraignment and that his last known address was unknown.

Kingsbury was scheduled for arraignment Monday afternoon on a deputy district attorney's four-count charging document, which lists a Class B felony charge of first-degree online sexual corruption of a child between April 23-27, two Class C felonies, luring a minor and second-degree attempted sexual abuse, and a misdemeanor of meth possession.

Court records also show Kingsbury, then listed as a transient, was charged last year with fourth-degree assault and menacing, both constituting domestic violence, involving a woman and unlawful use of a weapon, a knife. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges and his jury trial in that case is scheduled for May 21.