An employee in the Will County Sheriff's Office was arrested by agents from the Department of Homeland Security and charged with two counts of child sex assault, officials said Friday.

A Will County Sheriff's Office employee was taken into Homeland Security custody Thursday, the sheriff's office said in a social media post Friday morning.

A Will County Sheriff’s Office employee was in court Friday facing charges of sexually assaulting a child, officials said. Daniel T. Herod, 41, appeared in a morning hearing, charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child under 13 and criminal sexual assault of a family member under 18, according to Will County court records.