Police have found and arrested a homicide suspect who reportedly kidnapped his 7-month-old son earlier this week, Phoenix police said Wednesday.

Reyes Luis Holguin, 21, allegedly assaulted the child’s mother Monday night before taking the child from his home on Sherman Street near Grant Street in Phoenix, police said. Holguin was wanted in connection with a homicide in the 1500 block of East Pierce on April 27.

Holguin has an extensive criminal history and police were concerned with the child’s welfare, said Phoenix Police Sgt. Steve Martos.

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The child was found safe with family on Tuesday morning, but police reported that they were still looking for Holguin.

Phoenix police, with the help of U.S. Marshals officers, found Holguin on the 8100 block of 35th Avenue in Glendale and arrested him without incident, according to Martos.

Holguin was booked into a Maricopa County jail Wednesday evening on suspicion of second-degree murder and other undisclosed charges.

A former high-ranking Kansas Bureau of Investigation official was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to a child sex crime in March.

District Court Judge Cheryl Kingfisher sentenced 58-year-old Kyle Smith to 32 months in prison, but suspended it, meaning no time behind bars.

The former number three person in the KBI will serve 36 months supervised probation and must register as a sex offender for 25 years.

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“This is my own doing. I’m entirely responsible for the consequences in this prosecution and no one to blame but myself,” said Smith.

On March 27th, Smith pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child involving a photograph, which is a felony.

“Mr. Smith doesn’t claim to be a perfect individual. He’s flawed like anyone else, revealing his flaw in open court and with media present. I believe it shows Mr. Smith’s dedication to this treatment program,” said Smith’s attorney, Tom Haney.

Judge Cheryl Kingfisher also ordered Smith to continue the psychiatric treatment he had already started previously.

His employment as a Deputy Director of the KBI ended November 26th.

“There have been bad consequences already. I lost my job, my home, my career, my fiance. I let down a lot of people, including myself,” said Smith, “hopefully, since I have had my very large crash to the bottom, I can wake somebody else up. Pornography is not a victimless crime.” said Smith.

Besides registering as a sex offender, Smith also is prohibited from carrying a firearm.

Additional charges of interference with law enforcement, alleging he tried to destroy evidence on a phone and on a computer were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea.

Former KBI Deputy Director Kyle Smith was sentenced to 36 months probation and will have to register as a sex offender for the next 25 years. Last March, he pleaded to one felony count of sexual exploitation of a child involving a photograph Smith had on his phone and computer.

“This is my own doing,” he said during sentencing. “Nobody to blame but myself.”

He was arrested in February, Smith was accused of possessing a photo of a nude teenage girl under the age of 18 in a sexually explicit pose.

Senior Assistant District Attorney Todd Hiatt previously told 13 News last November Smith accidentally sent an email containing the picture to a KBI secretary, who then notified her supervisors.

Smith was the number 3 man at the KBI. The agency announced Smith was no longer employed on December 9.

The District Attorney’s office and FBI were able to find the image on the KBI server and tie it back to Smith’s Yahoo email account.

Hiatt said there is no evidence Smith knew the girl or took the picture, nor was it connected to his work at the KBI.

The picture was taken to Dr. Steven Crouch, a pediatrician at Stormont-Vail for examination. Based on anatomical characteristics, Crouch advised the KBI that the girl in the picture was significantly under 18 years old.

A former Tyler pharmacist was sentenced to 32 years in prison Tuesday for the sexual assault of a child younger than 16.

James Prosperie, 74, was sentenced to 16 years for sexual assault of a child and 16 years for indecency with a child involving sexual conduct.

The Smith County District Attorney’s Office said the sentences will be served consecutively.

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Prosperie pleaded guilty to the charges in April in the case, which occurred in summer and involved a 14-year-old child, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by Tyler Police.

Prosperie was arrested at his home in 2013 after a short standoff with authorities.

Neighbors in the Dry Creek area of Rowan County said they were very shocked to hear that scammers were targeting their neighborhood.

The Rowan County Sheriff’s Department said two men and a woman have been posing as contractors for Grayson RECC.

“I guess they think we’re naïve or something and they can get some money out of us real quick,” Diana Hatton said.

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Neighbors said they were alerted about the problem through a call from Grayson RECC.

“They want to work on individual’s meters because there was something faulty going on with them,” Rowan County Sheriff’s Deputy Ruford Abner said.

The cooperative said if you see anyone doing this do not let them into your home.

All Grayson RECC employees will have well marked vehicles and will have their credentials on them.

“All of us work hard for our money and we don’t need that,” Susan Hall said.

If anyone sees them or anyone posing as a contractor, you’re asked to call the sheriff’s department or Grayson RECC.

Deputies have arrested 19 people in seven different cases this year where suspects allegedly stole others’ identities in order to get a job.

In the latest case, a woman reported she was denied food stamps because earned wages were reported to the state, but she didn’t earn them.

During the investigation, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says six different people were using the woman’s ID at six different places of employment.

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Detectives served search warrants to Chompies in Tempe, Zipps Bar and Grill in Tempe, Bradford Allen in Tempe and Best Western in Guadalupe.

In these types of ID theft cases, Arpaio says innocent families are often denied money for food.

38-year-old Eva Maria Lucio-Diaz, 38-year-old Martha Patricia Gonzalez-Florez, 41-year-old Letecia Diaz-Jimeniz and 38-year-old Alicia Surrano-Frias were arrested and face charges of Aggravated Identity Theft and Forgery.

Deputies say they are all in the US illegally.

They’re still investigating the last two suspects in the case.

“These investigations clearly demonstrate how serious ID theft crimes can be for the victims, impacting their lives in the most basic of ways,” Arpaio says. “The majority of the 19 arrested were in the US illegally.”

Lexington Police continue to look for a missing man with mental health complications who they say made threats to himself, others and local business.

Police say 36-year-old James Caldwell allegedly wrote a letter that made some very serious threats to people and three local businesses. Because of that, Lexington Police are concerned about the safety of the city until they can find Caldwell.

He was last seen at a home on Eureka Springs in Lexington around 5:00 a.m. Tuesday.

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He is described as a 5-9 man with brown hair. He is believed to be driving a charcoal gray 2013 Toyota Corolla with a “Friends of Coal” Plate # 8563FA. Police say he may be in Lexington or surrounding counties.

Caldwell is considered to be a danger to himself and may be aggressive toward others due to a mental illness.

Police say this is a tough case for because they’re usually very sensitive to not disclosing information about someone’s mental state or their health issues, but because of all of the uncertainty surrounding Caldwell, they knew that public safety had to be the number one priority.

Caldwell has no criminal history here in Lexington.

Police say if anyone sees Caldwell, they should not approach him, but to call police immediately.

Ashland Hospital Corp. d/b/a King’s Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) has agreed to pay $40.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary coronary stents and diagnostic catheterizations and had prohibited financial relationships with physicians referring patients to the hospital, the Justice Department announced today.

Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) Kentucky region made the announcement.

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“Hospitals that place their financial interests above the well-being of their patients will be held accountable,” said Assistant Attorney General Delery. “The Department of Justice will not tolerate those who abuse federal health care programs and put the beneficiaries of these programs at risk by providing medically unnecessary care.”

The government alleged that, between 2006 and 2011, KDMC billed for numerous unnecessary coronary stents and diagnostic catheterizations performed by KDMC physicians on Medicare and Medicaid patients who did not need them. The government also alleged that the physicians falsified medical records in order to justify these unnecessary procedures, which allegedly generated millions of dollars in Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid reimbursements for KDMC.

“The conduct alleged in this matter is unacceptable, victimizing both taxpayers and patients,” said U.S. Attorney Harvey. “Treatment decisions motivated by financial gain undermine public confidence in our health care system and threaten vital federal programs upon which so many of our citizens rely. We will not relent in our efforts to protect the public from the sort of systematic misconduct alleged in this case.”

The settlement also resolves allegations that KDMC violated the Stark Law by paying certain cardiologists salaries that were unreasonably high and in excess of fair market value. The Stark Law is designed to limit the influence of money on physicians’ medical decision-making by prohibiting financial relationships between hospitals and referring physicians, unless these relationships meet certain designated exceptions.

In connection with this settlement, KDMC has agreed to enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement with HHS-OIG, which obligates the hospital to undertake substantial internal compliance reforms and to commit to a third-party review of its claims to federal health care programs for the next five years.

“Medically unnecessary procedures can cause serious health issues, cost the taxpayers millions of dollars each year, and drain the Medicare Trust Fund,” said Special Agent in Charge Jackson. “The OIG will continue to protect beneficiaries and hold health care providers accountable for improper claims.”

“This type of alleged conduct deceives individuals when they are seeking medical treatment and are vulnerable,” said Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Louisville Field Division. “The level of funds involved in this matter is staggering. This money has been stolen from the patients and the taxpayers.”

The Commonwealth of Kentucky will receive approximately $1,018,380, which represents the state’s share of the recovered Medicaid funds. The Medicaid program is funded jointly by the federal and state governments.

This settlement illustrates the government’s emphasis on combating health care fraud and marks another achievement for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative, which was announced in May 2009 by Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. The partnership between the two departments has focused efforts to reduce and prevent Medicare and Medicaid financial fraud through enhanced cooperation. One of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act. Since January 2009, the Justice Department has recovered a total of more than $19 billion through False Claims Act cases, with more than $13.4 billion of that amount recovered in cases involving fraud against federal health care programs.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI, the HHS-OIG, the Kentucky Office of Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control Unit, the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The claims settled by this agreement are allegations only, and there has been no determination of liability.

A Berkeley County man was arrested by deputies in a child sex assault case.

According to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office, 30-year-old David Earl Wesly Rabon was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, one county of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child, and one count of committing a lewd act on a child.

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Deputies say on Sunday they received complaints of Rabon’s alleged actions amd a day later met with him, which led to his arrest.

He is being held in the Hill-Finklea Detention Center. A bond hearing was scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday.