KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Story courtesy of WVLT) – A Knoxville man has been arrested after the Knox County Sheriff’s Office used an AI tool to help identify him as a suspect in a bank fraud case.
According to court records, officers went to a bank on Oak Ridge Highway on May 5 after a woman, 28-year-old Jasmine Quiggle, of Knoxville, tried to cash a fake check for $6,241.14 with her name on it.
While at the bank, officers said she left a sleeping five-year-old in the car who woke up while she was in the bank and was found walking around in the parking lot within 25 feet of traffic.
Although Quiggle admitted to leaving the child unattended in the car, court records said she also told officers she and the child “had been kidnapped because she was unsuccessful in completing the fraudulent transaction.” However, she later admitted they had not been kidnapped and that she left the child in her car.
As a result, Quiggle was charged with forgery, theft, false reports and child neglect.
Court records said when officers arrived on the scene, two co-conspirators left the bank. The sheriff’s office then used an AI facial recognition tool called Clearview AI to identify them as Dexvon Johnson, of Knoxville, and Troy Martin, of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Quiggle was able to identify Johnson and Martin as the suspects, and they were both charged with theft and forgery.
