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Captured polygamous sect leader due to face charges in Utah [View all]
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/
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