4 in Utah Child-Kidnapping examination in Utah accused

Salt Lake City-at Wednesday was submitted to criminal charges against four people.

Holly Angelina Smith, 32, from Salt Lake City, is charged before the 3rd district court for children's kidnapping, a crime of the first degree. Child abuse, an offense of class A; And a police officer false information to give a class C's offense.

Three more, Jose Francisco Robles-Prieto, 47; Joey Frederick Jimenez, 41; And Eric Mathew Jimenez, 37, all from Salt Lake City, were also charged with children's kidnapping, a crime of the first degree. Robles-Prieto and Eric Jimenez received additional charges for disability, a second degree crime.

On February 21, a judge of the youth court ordered that Smith's daughter, the 18 -month -old Josephina Jimenez, will be included in the state protection authority. After the decision, Smith went “out of the courthouse”, went to the residence in which she stayed, and started with her daughter before the order department for children's and family services arrived.

The Salt Lake police asked for an Amber alarm on Friday at 7:10 p.m. The alarm was canceled shortly after 11:40 p.m. after the girl was found.

During her search for Josephina, the police discovered text messages between Joey Jimenez and another person in which he “asked for money to bring Eric Jimenez, Smith and (Josephina) to hide,” the indictment said. However, when Detective Eric Jimenez questioned, “he reported that he did not see” the mother or the child “and” had nothing to say “, the police said.

Joey Jimenez claimed that he brought Smith and her daughter to the area of ​​1300 South near the Jordan River Trail. When the police checked his phone, they found “several text messages and telephone calls about where to hide”, mother and daughter claims. He was then taken into custody.

Officers who were looking for the area discovered Smith and Robles-Prieto-Josephhina's biological father of the proximity of the Redwood Road as they push a shopping cart. Smith was wrapped in a ceiling and initially gave the police a wrong name when he was asked, according to the charges. However, Smith was positively identified due to her tattoos.

After she was put in handcuffs, she told the police: “” She is right there, she is in there “as she nodded to the shopping cart. Then she explained:” I didn't kidnap my daughter. I never kidnapped her “”

In the shopping cart, the police found that Josephina “was pale and seemed to be cold”, and her pants were “soaked in the urine”, the accusations said. “Her hair was knotted and matted, and she smelled like cigarettes and 'burnt heroin'.

The police say Smith was confrontative during the survey. At some point she supposedly said Detective: “I'm not proud … my daughter in a shopping cart to get along the street to get to point A according to point B because I had to hide all day to court because I knew that she … had to go … something (stuff) and try to lay out an amber alarm.”