DeepfakeHigh
Edinburg, Texas Police Officer Arrested for Alleged Possession of CSAM, Including AI-Generated Deepfakes of Minors
- Occurred
- Feb 20, 2025
- Published
- Mar 19, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Texas Department of Public Safety staff sergeant from Edinburg, Preston Wade Pietrzykowski, was reportedly arrested on a charge of possession or promotion of child pornography. Included among the alleged contents of a hard drive belonging to him was CSAM altered or generated by deepfake technology.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Preston Wade Pietrzykowski
Harmed parties
- Minors
- General public
- General public of Texas
- Texas Department of Public Safety
Tags
- CSAM
- Deepfake pornography
- Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse
- Police officer
- Texas
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves AI-generated deepfakes of minors used in CSAM possession charges, a serious criminal offense.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8