Ark Valley News - Park City man indicted on federal child porn charges

Park City man indicted on federal child porn charges
By Matt Heilman
Last Updated: April 11, 2014

Two weeks after detectives with the Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit took a suspect into custody from a Park City residence, the identity of the suspect and the charges he's facing have been revealed.

On April 9, 30-year-old Kyle B. Rains, of Park City was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges involving child pornography. In a news release, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Rains was charged with two counts of distributing child porn and one count of possessing child porn.

The news release said the offenses were alleged to have occurred in February and March in Sedgwick County. On March 26, the day of Rains' arrest, a Park City police report said that Park City officers assisted the EMCU on a search warrant in the 6400 block of North Tarrytown. The officers assisted by blocking off Tarrytown as the EMCU team entered a home on the residential street northeast of 61st North and Hydraulic.

The report, made at 9:47 a.m. March 26 said a suspect was placed in a Park City patrol vehicle after he fled the scene and was then taken into custody by EMCU detectives. Lt. Chris Bannister with the Sedgwick County EMCU said the suspect, later identified as Rains, was taken in for questioning by EMCU detectives before he was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail.

If convicted, Rains faces a penalty of up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the distribution counts, and a maximum penalty of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the possession count. Homeland Security Investigations, the Internet Task Force on Crimes Against Children and the Wichita Police Department investigated, Grissom said.