San Angelo Man Arrested for Possessing Gross Videos of Children

SAN ANGELO, TX— A San Angelo man was booked into the Tom Green County Jail after a cyber tip led to his arrest for possessing child pornography.

Angelo Cassio, 22, of San Angelo, has been arrested by the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office for Possession of Child Pornography <100 Visual Depictions.

According to court documents, the investigator was assigned to investigate a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. On March 5, 2025, Kik Messenger became aware that videos were being uploaded using its service. The individual, known as user “yutxjp,” had uploaded 5 videos of suspected child pornography using Kik Messenger.

Kik is a free instant messaging mobile app and uses a smartphone’s internet connection to transmit and receive messages, videos, photos, and other content after users register a username.

The five videos ranged from 19 seconds to one and a half minutes, and each contained obvious child pornography. The children in the videos were approximately between the ages of 7 and 12 and were being forced to participate in sexual performance or conduct. The description of the videos is extremely graphic.

The cyber tip provided an IP address that was used to upload the disgusting videos, and the investigator submitted a grand jury subpoena to Google for the account information. They provided a phone number and the type of phone that was accessing the account.

An open-source intelligence database was used to find the individual associated with the account, Angelo Cassio. After another grand jury subpoena was issued to Frontier Communications, the internet service that the IP address was registered to, an address on the 500 block of East Riverside Avenue was returned.

On September 30, 2025, the investigator executed a search warrant at the residence on the 500 block of East Riverside Avenue, and a Samsung Galaxy S24 cellphone, the type of phone that accessed the account, was seized from Cassio’s person.

During an interview with Cassio, he stated that he lived on East Riverside Avenue with his mother, and he allegedly said that he uploaded and shared child pornography on Kik Messenger. Cassio said that he did save some of the gross content to his cellphone because to join some of the Kik Messenger chat groups, he had to share the child pornography before the group would let him join. When asked what the age of the child in the pornography was, Cassio allegedly said, “I know it’s below 18."

Cassio was arrested on October 1, 2025, and was booked into the Tom Green County Jail. He is being held on $100,000 bond.