Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs captured after nearly a year on the run

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/lyle-jeffs-polygamous-sect-leader-captured-food-stamps-fraud
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Spending nearly a year on the run, the polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs was captured in South Dakota after he pawned two pairs of pliers and provided a real identification card, authorities and the pawn shop owner said.

The suspicious pawn shop employee notified the owner that Jeffs was wanted by the FBI, who learned more about him online and alerted authorities.

Jeffs was alone near a lakeside marina, just hours from a compound run by his polygamous group, when an off-duty police detective spotted a pickup truck Thursday that a tipster told police Jeffs had been driving, said Eric Barnhart, FBI special agent in charge for the Salt Lake City division.

Jeffs complied with officers when he was arrested on Wednesday at a lakeside marina near the small town of Yankton in the south-eastern corner of South Dakota, Barnhart said. Authorities believe he had been in that area for the past two weeks and was living out of his pickup truck.

Authorities had been hunting for Jeffs since he escaped home confinement in Utah on 18 June 2016, ahead of his trial in an alleged multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme.

The events leading to Jeffs’ capture started Tuesday when he went to the River City Treasures and Pawn shop and sold two pairs of Leatherman pliers for $37 and provided his ID, owner Kevin Haug said in an interview.

A store employee notified Haug that Jeffs was wanted by the FBI after Jeffs had left the store.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Yup,Jeff was hiding in

South Dakota. Sure has taken some time to for the Cops to catch up to this Sucker. The Pringle crowd must have kicked his ass to the curb.

[BigmanPigman]

2. At first I thought this was the guy who had all his child wives dress like Amish people.

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3. That's the brother

but how different was this one?