By the looks of that photo, guilty as charged.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) – The Sheboygan County sheriff’s department says it is reopening an investigation into the Wood County district attorney after a resort employee said she saw him masturbating in a business lounge.

Sheriff Mike Helmke said Friday investigators will talk to the employee to see if she confirms her comments made to The Sheboygan Press.

The Associated Press first reported details about the November incident involving prosecutor John Henkelmann.

Deputies were called after a resort worker reported seeing him view pornography in the lounge.

Neither Henkelmann nor sheriff’s officials immediately returned messages Saturday.

Henkelmann was at the resort for an event sponsored by the state Justice Department.

Resort employee Amanda Cain says she was fired after mentioning the incident.

from www.wisconsinrapidtribune – State and local officials say they need to learn more before deciding whether to take action against the Wood County district attorney for nearly year-old allegations that came to light this week.

“The governor, like everyone else, just learned of this incident and will look into it,” said Carla Vigue, spokeswoman for Gov. Jim Doyle, who appointed John Henkelmann to the position. “If there warrants any further action in the case, we’ll definitely pursue it.”

According to a Thursday story by The Associated Press, Wood County’s district attorney, Henkelmann, 53, was staying at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake on Nov. 6 with 200 other prosecutors who attended a three-day training conference hosted by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

An employee, who had been monitoring the publicly accessible business room by a surveillance camera, called the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department at about 1:30 a.m. on the last day of the conference to report a man was repeatedly viewing pornography in the business room.

Deputies found Henkelmann viewing pornography but did not look at the surveillance footage or request charges against him, according to the AP report.

One of the deputies who responded confronted Henkelmann and asked that he “discontinue activity and return to his room,” according to the Sheriff’s Department report.

“He agreed, apologized and stated that he did not know that the room had a camera,” reads the report written by Deputy Shawn Splivalo. “I pointed out the camera that was in (plain) sight. He was visibly shaken by (our) contact.”

Amanda Cain, a reservations assistant who reported the incident to the Department of Justice, and later lost her job, told the Sheboygan Press on Friday that she saw the surveillance video, and the man in the business room was committing a lewd act.

“Everybody who worked in the office (saw it),” Cain said. “They wouldn’t have just called the cops for a guy watching porn; they would have sent security. … There was clearly more going on.”

Sheboygan County Sheriff Mike Helmke told the Sheboygan Press on Friday that he planned to re-open the investigation and speak with Cain.

Because there were no charges filed against Henkelmann, not all the facts are available about what happened, said Wood County Board Chairman Lance Pliml, who learned about The Associated Press story late Thursday and had not spoken to Henkelmann on Friday.

Although district attorneys are elected, Henkelmann was a political appointee by Doyle after former District Attorney Todd Wolf became the Wood County Branch 3 Circuit Court judge. The position is paid by the state, and the county has no authority over the person holding the position.

Pliml said he knows of no previous allegations of either personal or professional misconduct by Henkelmann. If the story reported Thursday turns out to be true, Pliml said he would be disappointed that officials let the residents of Wood County down.

“I expect all our employees and all our officials to act in an ethical manner at all times,” Pliml said.

When contacted by the Daily Tribune on Friday, Henkelmann said he had no comment other than what was previously stated in The Associated Press story. He said he hadn’t done anything illegal and was shaken when deputies showed up that night.