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DENVER (AP) -- The younger brother of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs pleaded guilty Monday to harboring a fugitive.
Seth Steed Jeffs, of Hildale, Utah, had pleaded not guilty in November to the charge of harboring a fugitive. U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn accepted Jeffs' plea, and set a sentencing date for July 14.
Jeffs was arrested Oct. 28, 2005, after a traffic stop in southern Colorado's Pueblo County. He was charged with prostitution and solicitation because a man traveling with Jeffs in an SUV said he had been hired for sex, according to court records.
During the stop, authorities found nearly $142,000 in cash, about $7,000 worth of prepaid debit cards and his brother's personal records.
Jeffs was also arrested on the federal charge of concealing a fugitive and was indicted in November. FBI agent Andrew Stearns testified Jeffs told him he didn't know where the elder Jeffs was, but wouldn't reveal his whereabouts if he did.
Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is wanted on an Arizona charge of arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a married man and on a federal charge of unlawful flight. He was also recently charged in Utah with two first-degree felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man in Nevada.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
