Captured polygamous sect leader due to face charges in Utah

[TexasTowelie]

SALT LAKE CITY — A polygamous sect leader captured after nearly a year on the run is due back in a federal courtroom in Utah.

Lyle Jeffs is set to be arraigned Monday on a felony count connected to his time as a fugitive as well as charges filed in a suspected multimillion food-stamp fraud scheme.

Jeffs was awaiting trial in the food-stamp fraud case when he escaped from home confinement in Salt Lake City in June 2016.

He was recaptured in Yankton, South Dakota, last month after pawning two pairs of pliers while apparently living out of his pickup truck.

Read more: http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2017/07/10/captured-polygamous-sect-leader-due-face-charges-utah/464736001/

[Squinch]

1. These people, and the horrendous "Handmaid's Tale" culture they presided over for decades

under the noses of American law enforcement, have always fascinated me. I have been following them closely since Krakauer came out with his book, "Under the Banner of Heaven." I read everything I can about them in a just-this-side-of-obsessive manner.

They are the epitome of evil. It is so satisfying to see them all getting arrested, and to hear about the end of their stranglehold on the lives of thousands of people.

Hopefully with some more freedom the people in Short Creek and other polygamous communities will be able to escape from their grinding ignorance.

There is still the Kingston family, though. They are harder for authorities to catch. They intermarry (like fathers to daughters intermarrying where FLDS was mostly uncles to nieces) and are smaller and even less attached to the real world.