A Cartoon Network series creator has been arrested on child pornography charges.
Kyle Carrozza, an animator who created the television series “Mighty Magiswords” and has worked on multiple shows for Cartoon Network, Disney, PBS Kids and Nickelodeon, was arrested in Burbank, California on June 20 on two counts of possession of child pornography, according to Burbank Police arrest records.
USA TODAY has reached out to Carrozza’s representatives and Cartoon Network for comment.
Carrozza, 45, has worked as a storyboard artist and animator on several animated shows, including “Adventure Time,” the 2020 “Animaniacs” reboot, “Dr. McSteens” (and its miniseries spinoff, “The Doc Files”), “Fishhooks,” “Fanboy & Chum Chum,” “Danger Rangers” and “Teen Titans GO!”
He also worked as an animator on The SpongeBob Movie: The SpongeBob Adventure.
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“Mighty Magiswords” was Cartoon Network’s first online original series, debuting in 2015. The show premiered as a feature-length television series in 2016 and concluded in 2019. Carrozza also worked as a voice actor, providing the voice of over a dozen characters, including one of the main characters, Prohias Robert Warrior, and also served as the composer and executive producer of the series.
In California, possession of child pornography can be a misdemeanor or a felony punishable by up to one year in county jail or up to three years in state prison and/or a fine of $2,500.
