Indictment Returned for Evansville Man Charged with Distributing and Possessing Child Pornography

According to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Wisconsin, A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned an indictment on Tuesday for an Evansville man charged with distributing and possessing child pornography. 22 year old Brandon Grazioso is charged with three counts of distributing child pornography and 1 count of possessing child pornography. The indictment alleges that he posted a file of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct onto an instant messaging app on November 23, December 3, and December 14, 2021. The indictment also alleges that on June 28, 2022, he possessed visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct and that at least one of the depictions involved a minor who had not attained 12 years of age.

If convicted, Grazioso faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years and a maximum of 20 years in federal prison on each distribution charge, and a maximum of 20 years on the possession charge. The charges against him are the result of an investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation, Rock County Sheriff’s Office, and Evansville Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Altman is prosecuting the case.