If you read the statement you will see it says that the calls made from Sarah, were made on a prepaid untracabe phone.
The calls made by Swinton were made on a tracable phone. It says the woman called texas and talked to a deputy after the raid started because she thought her call:
" On April 10, the woman called the Washington shelter again and was put on the line with a Texas deputy. She said she felt that she would be punished for the trouble she had caused, was worried that her baby might be taken away and was angry with a woman she had contacted March 29 for prompting the raid by law enforcement", other tracable calls were"The phone number used in the Washington call was traced to the Colorado Springs apartment where Swinton lives, the affidavit says. The number was also used to call a Utah organization for women escaping polygamy and an abuse counseling center in Fort Myers, Florida, phone records showed" All from the same traceable phone.
I read the statement, and it clearly said that the untraceable phone was linked to the previous case involving Swinton.
There’s a difference between “untraceable” and “unidentifiable”.
They apparently can’t find where the phone was used, but CAN say that the same phone was used in both cases.
So we know that Swinton made calls in both cases, and we know the phone that is tied to the “Sarah” calls was used IN BOTH CASES.
The two most likely explanations are that “Sarah” was somehow involved in the previous case where Swinton was involved, or that it was Swinton using that phone.
There are other possiblities that are much less likely.
The calls made by Swinton were made on a tracable phone.
Actually, the CNN article states that some calls were made on a phone traceable to Swinton's apartment, and the original call that triggered the raid was made on a prepaid cell phone that was also "used in other cases linked to Swinton". So it appears that Ms. Swinton, like many people has two phones -- one located in her apartment, and therefore 'traceable' and the other a pre-paid cell phone. Not traceable, but it does report its phone number during a call just like any other phone. So it appears from what CNN is reporting that sometimes Ms. Swinton used her landline phone and sometimes she used her prepaid cell phone.
The article I was quoting from CNN specifically said that SOME calls were on this prepaid phone with no records, and others were made on a DIFFERENT phone that was traceable.
That just means that if Swinton made both sets of calls, she did some with a prepaid phone, and some with a different phone. That certainly is within the realm of possibility.