A man accused of fatally stabbing a fellow resident 21 times inside an unlicensed Goodyear group home has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, closing the criminal case against him even as the scandal surrounding Arizona's sober living industry grinds on. Glynn Peaches, 46, entered the plea in connection with the April 2025 killing of 24-year-old Reno Caddo Jr., and he now faces sentencing on November 9, 2026.
According to FOX 10 Phoenix, Peaches has been held in Maricopa County jail since his arrest in April 2025 and initially claimed the stabbing was self-defense. The two men had reportedly been drinking alcohol together before the attack, per the station's reporting drawn from Goodyear police reports and a September 14 Maricopa County Superior Court hearing.
Caddo, a member of the White Mountain Apache Nation who grew up in Cibecue, Arizona, and graduated from Dìsh Chìì Bikòh High School in 2018, was living in the Goodyear home while receiving treatment through a Phoenix behavioral health clinic, according to the station's report. That clinic arrangement, and the state Medicaid system that funded it, sit at the center of why this single killing became emblematic of a much larger crisis.
Bodycam Footage and the Scene Inside the Home
Goodyear Police responded to an 11 p.m. call on April 12, 2025, after a facility worker reported hearing someone say “I killed him” and beat on a body, according to FOX 10 Phoenix. Officers arrived to find Peaches standing in front of red-colored water in an upstairs bathroom, the same report states. The residence itself was a two-story, three-bedroom home near Indian School Road and Falcon Drive, furnished minimally with air mattresses for its residents, and the property was emptied shortly after Caddo's death, the station previously reported.
The home was linked to The Academy Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic near 43rd Avenue and Indian School Road in Phoenix. The clinic's owner told Goodyear police investigators that residents paid $100 per week in rent while attending clinic classes, denying the residence was operating as a licensed group home, the outlet reported. State health records confirmed the home was unlicensed, and AHCCCS, Arizona's state Medicaid agency, had paid for treatment at the Phoenix clinic that placed residents there.
A Violent History Before the Move-In
Department of Corrections records show Peaches was sentenced for manslaughter on March 13, 2003, and served two decades in state prison before his September 2023 release, according to FOX 10 Phoenix. His prison record included multiple disciplinary infractions, among them possessing a weapon, assaulting an inmate, and disorderly conduct, per the same report. Caddo's family has publicly questioned why an unlicensed treatment facility permitted alcohol on-site and placed a young man seeking addiction help in the same bedroom as a convicted violent felon, a concern Hoodline detailed in its earlier coverage of the case.
Part of a Multibillion-Dollar Medicaid Fraud Scandal
The killing unfolded amid a sweeping state investigation into Arizona's Medicaid sober living scandal, in which fraudulent behavioral health providers stole an estimated $2 billion to $2.5 billion from AHCCCS's American Indian Health Program between 2019 and 2023, according to ProPublica. As of May 2025, the Arizona Attorney General's Office had brought more than 100 indictments and 25 convictions in the probe, but state officials had recovered only about $125 million — roughly 5% of the total stolen public funds, the outlet reported.
By May 2026, state officials reported that total indictments in the crackdown had reached 140, resulting in a 92% decrease in fraudulent billing under the American Indian Health Plan, per FOX 10 Phoenix's more recent reporting on the statewide enforcement effort. The scale of that fraud, and the difficulty of recovering stolen funds, underscores the regulatory gaps that allowed unlicensed homes like the one in Goodyear to operate largely unchecked while housing vulnerable clients.
What Comes Next for Peaches
Under Arizona Revised Statutes § 13-1104, second-degree murder is classified as a Class 1 felony carrying a standard presumptive sentence of 16 years, with a statutory range of 10 to 25 years served day-for-day without eligibility for early release, according to DM Cantor. Per FOX 10 Phoenix's report on the plea hearing, Peaches could face 15 to 29 years in prison when he is sentenced on November 9, 2026.
For Caddo's family and the broader White Mountain Apache community, the plea resolves the question of individual guilt but not the larger one his relatives raised: how an unlicensed home tied to a Medicaid-funded clinic came to house a young man in recovery alongside a convicted killer with a documented history of violence behind bars.
