Your Week Top Story: FLDS outpost spotted
It's the third created by followers of polygamous leader Jeffs
The Salt Lake Tribune
A third outpost created by followers of fugitive polygamous leader
Warren Jeffs has been discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The 100-acre, wooded property, near Pringle, S.D., features
residential buildings, a large steel warehouse and outbuildings. The
land was bought in October 2003 by David Steed Allred, about the same
time he purchased a 1,371-acre ranch in Eldorado, Texas.
The South Dakota site appears to be on a par with an FLDS
development in Mancos, Colo., said author Jon Krakauer, who has visited
the area twice to document the new holding. A building permit lists
costs of materials at $450,000,
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but nothing for labor.
The 50-year-old Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints based in the twin cities of Colorado City,
Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, is wanted by the FBI on an Arizona charge of
arranging an underage marriage.
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