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Two FLDS Members Arrested After Release From Jail

Dennis Skley
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Two members of a polygamist church sect in Utah awaiting trial on charges of food-stamp fraud were arrested Monday for allegedly violating the terms of their release from jail. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Seth Jeffs and John Wayman  are among 11 people accused of fraud and money-laundering. They allegedly took $12 million in food-stamp benefits from other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and redistributed them. Another accused man, church second-in-command Lyle Jeffs, remains on the run after he reportedly used olive oil to slip off his ankle monitor June 18th in Salt Lake City.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
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