The Latest: Prosecutors say polygamists are flight risks

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Prosecutors say polygamists are flight risks

Updated 7:21 pm, Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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6:15 p.m.

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to keep members of a polygamous group accused of food-stamp fraud and money laundering behind bars because they are flight risks.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah argued in court documents filed late Tuesday that group leader Lyle Jeffs and 10 others are likely to flee and seek to hide in the group's elaborate network of houses throughout North and South America.

The issue is expected to be discussed at court hearings Wednesday for the people arrested.

Prosecutors say the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints based on the Utah-Arizona border uses aliases, disguises, false identification documents and pre-paid cellphones to help people avoid being caught.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Polygamous-leaders-arrested-in-food-6849664.php

[jwirr]

1. Between this group, the Bundy fools, Romney and Glenn Beck all

the three branches of the Mormon church are getting smeared. But they are going to have a hard time defending themselves as their anti-government religion does teach that crap.