Novato Man Arrested For Child Sex Abuse Material: Marin County Sheriff

NOVATO, CA — A Novato man was arrested Dec. 21 on suspicion of possession of child sexual abuse material — formerly known as child pornography— following a seven-month-long investigation, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office announced.

Detectives took 50-year-old Timmothy Jason Pisani into custody after serving search warrants Dec. 21 on his Novato home, his car and his person.

The investigation into Pisani began with a cyber tip from the Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which serves Marin and 10 other counties in Northern California. According to the task force, there is a growing trend in which predators utilize the internet and social media to request, produce and obtain illicit images of children. Child predators will often seek each other out and exchange illicit images and/or videos that depict child sexual exploitation.

In Pasini's case, detectives with the sheriff's Special Victims Unit wrote and served numerous search warrants on electronic service providers and cloud storage servers and developed probable cause to believe he possessed child sexual abuse material, the sheriff's office said in a Dec. 22 news release.

Upon his arrest Dec. 21, Pisani was booked into the Marin County Jail and was released after he posted bail, the sheriff's office said.