Indiana man arrested in child-selling scheme

KOKOMO, Ind. — Police have arrested a Kokomo man who they say was involved in a scheme to trade a 2-year-old boy for money, drugs and a car.

Stephen P. Lynch Jr., 31, was being held on $75,000 cash bond Friday night in Howard County jail. The Kokomo Tribune reports sheriff’s deputies arrested him Thursday on charges of conspiracy to deal in a narcotic, and conspiracy to commit child selling and profiting from an adoption.

A probable cause affidavit filed in court alleges Lynch and another person gave a couple $13,000, a 1996 Lincoln Mark VIII valued at about $3,500 and drugs in exchange for the couple’s now 2-year-old son.

The other three people who were allegedly involved have not been charged.