Justice Department Seeks Forfeiture of Vehicle Used by a Convicted Sex Offender Who Drove from Maryland to D.C. With Intent to Sexually Abuse a Child

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department filed a civil forfeiture complaint today against a 2020 Subaru Forester SUV belonging to a convicted sex offender who distributed child pornography before he traveled to the District in the Subaru for the purpose of engaging in sexual contact with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

Kaziah Matthew White, 33, pleaded guilty on Dec. 18, 2024, to a charge of distribution of child pornography. He was sentenced on May 7, 2025, to 87 months in prison and ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release.

White, of Long Lake, New York, communicated online with an undercover officer who had posed as an abusive father offering up his own 10-year-old son for sex with others.

In March 2024, White sent the undercover officer more than 100 videos depicting the sexual abuse of young children and toddlers, as well as sadomasochistic abuse involving a blindfolded child. During the chats, White agreed to meet the undercover officer in Washington D.C. for a "playdate" with the fictional child and even bought them Spiderman-themed underwear to wear.

White drove the Subaru SUV from Maryland to a coffee shop in D.C. on March 28, 2024, to meet with the purported abusive father. Agents of the FBI-MPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force arrested White soon after arrival.

The Subaru SUV is currently in FBI custody and will be transferred to the United States Marshals Service in the District of Columbia.

The United States regularly seeks to lawfully forfeit defendant property to punish and deter criminal activity by depriving criminals of property used in illegal activities and to recover the assets so that they may be used to compensate victims.

The government is represented in this case by Asset Forfeiture Coordinator Rick Blaylock Jr. for the District of Columbia in conjunction with Deputy Chief Janani Iyengar of the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Section. Former Assistant United States Attorney Jocelyn Bond prosecuted the criminal case.