Fugative polygamist leader caught by FBI

A POLYGAMIST Mormon sect leader who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List has been arrested and faces sexual misconduct charges for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.

Fugative polygamist leader caught by FBI

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 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.

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