Desert_Sloath
29-08-06, 08:41 PM
Fugitive sect leader arrested near Vegas
Warren Steed Jeffs was on FBI's most wanted list
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:28 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2006
LAS VEGAS - The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said.
The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was wanted in Utah and Arizona on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
Since May, Jeffs has been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, with a $100,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture.
The other two people in the vehicle were identified as one of Warren Jeffs’ wives, Naomi Jeffs, and a brother, Isaac Steve Jeffs, both 32, Staretz said. They were being interviewed by the FBI in Las Vegas but were not arrested.
Jeffs was in federal custody in Las Vegas pending a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Staretz said. It was not immediately clear if Jeffs would face extradition to Arizona or Utah.
Jeffs was indicted in June on an Arizona charge of arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a married man, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He is charged in Utah with two felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man in Nevada.
The FLDS Church split from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the mainstream Mormon Church disavowed plural marriage more than 100 years ago.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Link:
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14569632/
My Views:
Governments of the world supposed to be mature and respectable such as Great Britain and the United States have a case against the government of Sudan !
Complaints are being handled at the United Nations' Security Council level. The case is about 'rape' taking place under the very eyes of the government of Sudan. :scold:
The respectable world community claims the government of Sudan colluding with the Jan`a'jaweed who seems to have a sort of strange sexual apetite. These Jan`a'jaweed seems to know no profession 'raping.' If that case is different from that about Iraq on WMD then how come the United States of America sent a Lady official to talk to the Sudanese ? I believe she is a good one, beautiful with sleeping eyes ! Don't they fear her being molested ? I can't control myself when she appears on the screen and am wondering what it going to happen to her when she comes face to face with Jan`a'jaweed.
Aren't you having the same feelings I have ?
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Warren Steed Jeffs was on FBI's most wanted list
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:28 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2006
LAS VEGAS - The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said.
The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was wanted in Utah and Arizona on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
Since May, Jeffs has been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, with a $100,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture.
The other two people in the vehicle were identified as one of Warren Jeffs’ wives, Naomi Jeffs, and a brother, Isaac Steve Jeffs, both 32, Staretz said. They were being interviewed by the FBI in Las Vegas but were not arrested.
Jeffs was in federal custody in Las Vegas pending a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Staretz said. It was not immediately clear if Jeffs would face extradition to Arizona or Utah.
Jeffs was indicted in June on an Arizona charge of arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a married man, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He is charged in Utah with two felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man in Nevada.
The FLDS Church split from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the mainstream Mormon Church disavowed plural marriage more than 100 years ago.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Link:
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14569632/
My Views:
Governments of the world supposed to be mature and respectable such as Great Britain and the United States have a case against the government of Sudan !
Complaints are being handled at the United Nations' Security Council level. The case is about 'rape' taking place under the very eyes of the government of Sudan. :scold:
The respectable world community claims the government of Sudan colluding with the Jan`a'jaweed who seems to have a sort of strange sexual apetite. These Jan`a'jaweed seems to know no profession 'raping.' If that case is different from that about Iraq on WMD then how come the United States of America sent a Lady official to talk to the Sudanese ? I believe she is a good one, beautiful with sleeping eyes ! Don't they fear her being molested ? I can't control myself when she appears on the screen and am wondering what it going to happen to her when she comes face to face with Jan`a'jaweed.
Aren't you having the same feelings I have ?
.