The manager of a local smoothie franchise in Tampa was arrested and charged with more than 100 counts of possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n
Brian Schaff, 30, is the former manager at Robeks Fresh Juice and Smoothies on E Kennedy Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Detectives began investigating Schaff in late May after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, reporting images of child pornography uploaded to an online cloud storage.<\/p>\n
The images were later determined to be AI-generated. Schaaf’s search history showed terms including “AI face swap” and “NSFW AI face swap,” according to Tampa police.<\/p>\n
As of October 2022, it is a felony in Florida to “willfully generate any altered sexual depiction” of a person without their consent.<\/p>\n
Schaaf was arrested on June 8 and charged with two felony counts of creating child pornography.<\/p>\n
Police say a search warrant later revealed more child porn images in Schaaf’s possession, and officers with the U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested him again on June 23.<\/p>\n
He now faces 100 felony charges of solicitation\/possession of child pornography, plus six felony charges of generating altered sexual depictions without consent.<\/p>\n
“This case is disturbing and incomprehensible,” Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercar said in a statement. “I am incredibly proud of the detectives whose tireless dedication helped remove this predator from our community and put him behind bars.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Robeks Fresh Juice and Smoothies confirmed Schaaf is no longer the manager of the Tampa location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The manager of a local smoothie franchise in Tampa was arrested and charged with more than 100 counts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133039,7550,3037,133041,58614,133040,135,137,136,3793],"class_list":["post-320803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-brian-schaff","tag-felony","tag-felony-charges","tag-fresh-juice","tag-national-center-for-missing-and-exploited-children","tag-smoothie-franchise","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}