Brian Brisendine’s sentencing has been “reset” till August 18, 2022, according to the Courtroom Deputy of Federal Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr. Judge Bryant had ordered Brisendine to report to the U.S. Marshals by 1 p.m. Monday, May 9, 2022. There he was placed into custody and sent to the Lubbock County Detention Center while waiting on his sentencing hearing, which was tentatively set for July 28, 2022.
Brisendine’s charges and arrest stem from a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) investigation that began in October of 2021 after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent a tip that a storage account of files containing materials of child sexual abuse was linked to an I.P. Address that was tracked to Brisendine’s house in Brownfield. According to court documents, the storage account of files was also associated with an email address Brisendine had used in a driver’s license application.
On January. 18, 2022 TxDPS agents searched Brisendine’s home and he also met with agents and admitted to trading images of child pornography online since 2014. He stated to investigators that he knowingly possessed all the images and videos in the storage account, which he also saved on his computer. Brisendine was arrested on January 19, 2022, and was released on bond.
According to federal court documents, Brisendine pleaded guilty on Monday, March 28, 2022, to one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography. Brisendine’s case is now under Federal District Judge James Wesley Hendrix for the sentencing phase.
