Appleton man facing child pornography charges
By: Erin Davisson
Updated: November 29, 2012
Madison, Wis.(WFRV)--A former Appleton man is being charged with five counts of Possession of Child Pornography-Repeater after an investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice -- Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), with assistance from the Appleton Police Department. Arraignment is scheduled for December 17, 2012, at 9:15 a.m.
Authorities state in a news release that on September 24, a DCI agent, along with sergeants from the Appleton Police Department, made contact with Andreas Petanitis at his home in Appleton. According to the criminal complaint, the defendant's email address had been identified as being associated with uploading child pornography on the Internet.
According to the complaint, Petanitis consented to an on-scene forensic preview of a laptop computer belonging to him at which time a computer forensic analyst with the DOJ observed a number of images containing children engaged in sexually explicit conduct located on the computer's hard drive in the Yahoo messenger picture folder.
According to the complaint, Petanitis consented to an on-scene forensic preview of a laptop computer belonging to him at which time a computer forensic analyst with the DOJ observed a number of images containing children engaged in sexually explicit conduct located on the computer's hard drive in the Yahoo messenger picture folder.
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