Posted on 11/19/2006 11:05:26 AM PST by jazusamo
Nevada Highway Patrolman Eddie Dutchover wasn't expecting much when he stopped the maroon 2007 Cadillac Escalade heading north out of Las Vegas. All the officer wanted to know was why the car had paper tags rather than license plates. But there was something strange about the tall, thin man in the back seat. The guy seemed nervous, so jittery you could see the main artery in his neck furiously pumping blood up into his face. Plus, he was obsessively eating a salad, refusing to make eye contact with the patrolman.
It was a hunch, but the cop was on the money. He had just pulled over Warren Jeffs, the spiritual leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives, and a man with a $100,000 bounty on his head.
If there is a pope of Mormon polygamy, a powerful prophet who controls the lives of thousands of Americans who still believe in the sanctity of plural marriage, that man is Warren Steed Jeffs. His 10,000-member fundamentalist Mormon sect is the largest of several splinter groups that refuse to accept the mainstream Mormon church's decision more than a century ago to suspend the practice of polygamy.
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Do Mormon inmates get conjugal visits? I wonder how that works? :-|
LOL! If they do, he's gonna be busy.
I can't read this whole thing, but I must ask why is this man a top ten fugitive?
This man was forcing young girls to marry old men. He had countless wives. He was taking people's money each week and if they didn't give enough he would toss them out of the compound. He was able to rip families away from each other and give one man's wife to another. Women and young girls would try to escape from the compounds he had. Plus he was stockpiling guns. He came under enough attention and was deemed a threat . He has compounds and followers all over the western part of the country and in Canada. Goggle Warren Jeffs. If you can find any of his sermons on blacks, music etc listen to them. He is a strange person. Oh lets not forget he believes in smacking women around too. I suggest you read up on him and then you may understand .
I guess the condensed version is they believe him a big time criminal.
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