SAN ANTONIO – Three officers have been suspended and disciplined for their roles in the response to a threat made to a local school.
On Tuesday, officials with the North East Independent School District confirmed that Sgt. George Teniente, Det. Leticia Sanchez, and Officer Michael Luna each received three-day suspensions and were reprimanded for their roles in the threat response.
Service records indicate that on Sept. 24, almost one month after the initial incident, two other officers, identified as Sgt. Moses Suarez and Sgt. Reyes Bermea, separated from the North East Independent School District Police Department.
The school district has not yet officially released the specific details of their infractions.
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These departures and disciplinary measures come after a man allegedly used an artificial intelligence platform to generate detailed threats of a mass shooting directed at an elementary school.
An arrest warrant was issued for 22-year-old Nathaniel Michael Carrasco on a charge of terroristic threat causing public fear of serious bodily injury, a third-degree felony.
According to the arrest affidavit, the FBI National Threat Operations Section alerted local law enforcement on Aug. 28 regarding threatening queries made during an AI chat on Aug. 11.
Investigating officers stated Carrasco used Anthropic AI to express intentions to obtain a firearm and carry out a shooting targeting students at Serna Elementary School.
Serna Elementary Principal Jennifer Lomas said that the school was not made aware of the specific threat against its campus until Sunday evening, when the information became public through news coverage.
Lomas said Carrasco was arrested Sunday. Law enforcement and district officials are working to determine why Serna Elementary was initially given only partial information about the threat.