Sitka man arrested on 10 CSAM counts after 5-day probe

A Sitka man faces ten felony counts of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material after Task Force Dawnbreaker arrested him Wednesday, five days after investigators first received reports about his online account.

Bradley Rosson, 54, is held without bail at Sitka Jail. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation's dispatch states that investigators identified Rosson as the user of an online account reported for uploading and storing CSAM, and that he "was arrested without incident and charged with ten counts of Possession and Distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material."

The investigation opened June 19 after Task Force Dawnbreaker received multiple reports about the account. Three agencies assisted: the Alaska Department of Public Safety Training Academy, the Sitka Police Department, and the Anchorage Police Department.

About Task Force Dawnbreaker

Task Force Dawnbreaker operates within the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and focuses on online child sexual exploitation statewide. Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case told the Anchorage Assembly in March 2026 that "the task force has been around since 2007, and we have 34 agencies around the state that participate in the task force." Case noted that APD alone made 14 arrests in the prior year, not counting arrests made by other participating agencies statewide.

Charges are accusations. Rosson is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. No court date was listed in the dispatch, and no defense counsel has been publicly identified. Court filings, which would clarify how the ten counts are divided between possession and distribution charges and detail the alleged conduct, had not been made public as of the time of this report.