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Kyle Carrozza, creator of Cartoon Network’s “Mighty Magiswords,” arrested

The creator of a Cartoon Network series was arrested on child pornography charges.

Kyle Carrozza, an animator who created the television series “Mighty Magiswords” and has worked on several shows on Cartoon Network, Disney, PBS Kids and Nickelodeon, was arrested June 20 in Burbank, California, 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 cartoons, including “Adventure Time,” the 2020 “Animaniacs” reboot, “Doc McStuffins” (and its miniseries spinoff “The Doc Files”), “Fish Hooks,” “Fanboy & Chum Chum,” “Danger Rangers” and “Teen Titans Go!”.

He also worked as an animator on “The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.”

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Mighty Magiswords was Cartoon Network’s first online original series and premiered in 2015. The show began airing as a full-length television series in 2016 and ended in 2019. Carrozza also served as a voice actor – voicing over a dozen characters, including one of the main characters, Prohyas Robert Warrior – as well as composer and executive producer of the series.