Did Fugitive Polygamist Return for Marriages?
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Arizona’s attorney general believes fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs recently returned to perform more marriages involving underage girls in Colorado City, Ariz., his church’s community along the Utah-Arizona state line.
Atty. Gen. Terry Goddard told a Salt Lake City newspaper that he plans to meet with FBI officials Monday about the case.
Jeffs, one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives, is accused of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men as leader of a Mormon splinter group called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He is charged with child sexual abuse in Arizona and with being an accomplice to statutory rape in Utah.
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