LACONIA, N.H. —

A Gilford man has been indicted for allegedly creating a deepfake video by altering what a police officer said in police body camera video, court documents say.

Jaxen Cole, of Gilford, was indicted on two counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes, a class B felony, court documents showed. Cole has pleaded not guilty to both charges.

The indictments allege that in February 2025, Cole posted a deepfake video to his Facebook and Instagram accounts of a video from a Laconia police officer's body camera video in which the officer's voice was "digitally manipulated into saying different things than in the original."

"It was around Valentine's Day of this year, Feb. 14. Part of the deepfake that he created had the caption 'Do you think this officer wants to be my Valentine?' And t

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