Posted on 04/19/2008 2:38:01 PM PDT by Mount Athos
This was a day or so ago. Do you have a source reporting that the woman has NOW been arrested for making a false report on the FLDS?
I”ve not seen anything regarding an arrest related to the Texas FLDS event.
This was in the news yesterday on FR including the Obama delegate portion. Nothing new here as far as I can see, just a blog late in reading the news on the net is my guess.
Yeah especially when they come from CNN and its the Texas authorities giving them. Same ones who said it was a 16 year old girls call that justified the raid. Now its found to be bullsh!t trumped up charge to find 1 or 2 broken lawbreakers to condemn the whole community, just like the Waco!
They’re very good at finding things.
If you catch any errors send them to the blog I linked
Nevermind I mailed him about the error myself
“she is a black woman?” Now that makes sense since ordinarily race can’t be determined via Caller ID!
You are so funny.
So tell me, how many temples have beds in them?
This John Walsh is guessing. He has no idea of what went on in that compound.
No it is all BS, based on little fact, I don't know of one word in that is actual fact. Except maybe they spelled some word correctly.
Actually, I think Drudge started this with a sloppy post on his site about the woman's arrest.
Thanks..if you find out anything new, please ping or FM me.
Maybe he is guessing, maybe not. He likely knows as much about this as most of the experts posting here.
True. Freepers are all experts.
:-)
So she is an obamassiah delegate? IIRC, a thread like this was pulled last week because there was no evidence it was the same woman.
Some have speculated it was a back door attack on Romney because this happened when there was a bunch of noise about him being McCain’s running mate.
A Colorado Springs woman has been named a "person of interest" by Texas Rangers investigating what may have been a hoax call that set off the raid of a polygamous compound in western Texas.
In a statement Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Rozita Swinton was being "actively pursued" regarding telephone calls placed to a crisis center in San Angelo, Texas, in late March.
The raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, on April 3 was prompted by a series of phone calls in late March from a female caller whom officials referred to as Sarah.
The caller claimed to be a 16-yearold girl who had been beaten and forced to become the "spiritual" wife to an adult man.
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamous group that split from the Mormon church, have denied the girl, supposedly named Sarah Jessop Barlow, exists.
Swinton, 33, was arrested Wednesday by Colorado Springs police on suspicion of making a hoax distress call in February that set off a futile search by dozens of officers for an injured child trapped in a basement in a neighborhood in the northeast part of the city.
Swinton was linked to that call during a search of her home by Colorado Springs police and Texas Rangers investigating her as the possible caller who identified herself as Sarah, according to the Rangers' statement.
"During the search, officers found several items that indicated a possible connection between Swinton and calls regarding the FLDS compounds in Colorado City, Ariz., and Eldorado, Texas," the statement said without identifying the evidence.
Lt. Skip Arms of the Colorado Springs Police Department said Swinton has made such calls in the past but, "This is the first time it rose to the level that she was ever charged (in Colorado Springs)."
Swinton also was arrested on a warrant related to a false report she allegedly made in 2005 in Castle Rock.
Court documents related to the February incident have been sealed by a judge. In the 2005 incident in Castle Rock, Swinton allegedly called an adoption agency and police posing as a teenage mother named Jessica who wanted to give up her baby before committing suicide.
Swinton has not been arrested in connection with the raid in Texas and the investigators who searched her Colorado Springs apartment returned to Texas on Thursday.
She was released from the El Paso Criminal Justice Center by Thursday and could not be reached Friday.
Swinton apparently came to the attention of Texas authorities after a series of calls to Flora Jessop, executive director of the Child Protection Project and former member of the FLDS church, in late March. Jessop and the Phoenix-based group help women and children flee polygamy and religious abuse, according to its Web site.
Jessop said she recorded nearly 40 hours of conversation with Swinton, who said her name was Laura, before contacting law enforcement.
"She claimed to be the twin sister of Sarah, who made the initial call in Texas," Jessop said.
Swinton knew specifics about the religion and culture, used common FLDS surnames and provided specific addresses of homes in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., where she said she was being held.
"She was good," Jessop said. "Apparently she was doing her research."
But other things - calling her parents "Mom" and "Dad" instead of "Mother" and "Father" as FLDS adherents do - were suspicious, Jessop said.
Jessop declined to comment on whether she believes Swinton made the telephone call that triggered the Texas raid.
"I'm not going to speculate," she said. "I'm going to trust that the Texas authorities are doing their job."
More than 400 children living at the Texas compound were seized in the raid and a Texas judge signed an emergency order earlier this month giving the state custody of them until their fate is determined in court hearings.
Maybe he is guessing, maybe not. He likely knows as much about this as most of the experts posting here.
Excepting yourself, as usual, right? ;)
Yeah I was wondering about that too. It may be someone else with the same name.
Maybe one of these articles - some day, will definitively state this woman is a delegate or it’s the same name different woman.
Credit ...FReeper Ron Jeremy broke this yesterday or the day before on a thread that was later pulled.
Republicans? What do they have to do with this? How about Dingy Harry?
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