Hildale residents nervous following Texas raid

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Andrew Adams reportingThe raid of a polygamous ranch in Texas is making polygamous communities in Utah so nervous, they need reassuring. Enter Washington County Sheriff Kirk Smith.

"I just want them to know this isn't going to be a concerted effort on the part of all law enforcement to sweep through every polygamous community," he said.

He says he told Hildale's mayor it's business as usual for now.

Even sightings of highway patrol cruisers heading south from Salt Lake have caused paranoia about another raid. Smith says he took calls from Hildale about that Sunday.

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