A Tiverton man was found guilty last week of two counts of sexual assault against female victims in 2006 and 2018.

Following the conclusion of a four-day trial before Newport County Superior Court Justice Maureen B. Keough, a jury found Brian Brownell, 58, guilty last Thursday, May 11, of two counts of first-degree sexual assault.

Brownell is being held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) pending a sentencing hearing to be scheduled at a later date.

A currently registered sex offender, he was previously convicted of indecent assault and battery on a person under 14 in Massachusetts in 2000, and possession of child pornography in Rhode Island in 2015.

Prosecutors alleged that Brownell sexually assaulted a female acquaintance in Newport. The state also proved beyond a reasonable doubt that in May 2018, the defendant sexually assaulted a second woman, who was also known to him, in Tiverton.

Assistant Attorney General Eric Batista and Special Assistant Attorney General Erica Rebussini of the Office of the Attorney General, Community Policing Supervisor Jason Head of the Newport Police Department and Detective Sergeant Joshua Pelletier of the Tiverton Police Department led the investigation and prosecution of the case.