Police Hoped to Catch Warren Jeffs Tonight

Police Hoped to Catch Warren Jeffs Tonight


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(KSL News) -- Washington County authorities thought they had fugitive polygamous leader Warren Jeffs cornered this evening.

Someone reported 15 vans with blacked out windows on a farm owned by a polygamous group. Investigators thought Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist LDS Church, might be in one of the vans.

They pulled over two of them and each had 13-men inside., but no sign of Jeffs.

Jeffs has been on the run since being charged with marrying an underage girl to a married adult man.

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