By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News

Thirteen people from San Antonio, almost half of them former employees of a company that processes child-support payments for Texas and 15 other states, have been charged with diverting thousands of dollars of those payments to themselves.

Federal and state authorities arrested 11 of the suspects Monday, charging them with taking advantage of an $18.2 million contract the state has with Affiliated Computer Services to issue debit cards to Texans who are due child support.

Agents with the Secret Service and the Texas attorney general's office were searching for the other two suspects.

According to six indictments unsealed Monday, the suspects diverted some of the debit cards to friends, relatives or associates and used them to buy things for themselves. At least $275,000 might have been wrongly diverted from child support payments, though ACS and the attorney general's office said the company, which was recently acquired by Xerox, has reimbursed the victims.

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