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A second defendant indicted for theft and trafficking of American Indian artifacts from the Four Corners has been found dead in an apparent suicide, the FBI said Friday.

Steven L. Shrader, 56, of Santa Fe was found dead near an elementary school in Shabbona, Ill., on Friday, the same day he was scheduled to appear in federal court in Salt Lake City.

Shrader was one of two dozen people indicted following a two-year undercover investigation of suspects in Utah, New Mexico and Colorado.

June 11, the day after the indictments were announced, a prominent southeast Utah doctor, James Redd, 60, committed suicide.

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