A\u00a0Carrizo Springs man was arrested after authorities said he possessed hundreds of AI-generated pornographic images and videos depicting South Texas children.<\/p>\n
Adan Covarrubias, 31, was booked into the Dimmit County jail on May 19 on a charge of possession of computer-generated child pornography, a first-degree felony, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n
In April, FBI agents in\u00a0Del Rio obtained consent to search and seize electronic devices from Covarrubias\u2019 Carrizo Springs home as part of a months-long investigation into AI-generated child pornography, according to DPS.<\/p>\n
Investigators said they found more than 900 images and videos allegedly created by\u00a0Covarrubias that depicted AI-generated pornographic content involving prepubescent and pubescent children.<\/p>\n
Investigators also found non-AI-generated child sexual abuse material during the search of the digital evidence, DPS said.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Covarrubias downloaded photos from open-source pages affiliated with South Texas schools and manipulated them with AI tools to create nude images of children.<\/p>\n
So far, investigators have identified about 30 child victims, according to DPS.<\/p>\n
The charge was filed under Senate Bill 20, a Texas law that\u00a0criminalizes the possession or promotion of obscene visual material that appears to depict a child, including images generated or altered using artificial intelligence and other computer software.<\/p>\n
DPS said the FBI is coordinating victim services for those affected by the case. The Maverick County District Attorney\u2019s Office is also assisting with the ongoing investigation, according to DPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Carrizo Springs man was arrested after authorities said he possessed hundreds of AI-generated pornographic images and videos depicting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-315588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}