The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Lyle Jeffs, the polygamist leader, after he removed his GPS ankle bracelet while under house arrest awaiting trial on charges of food-stamp fraud.
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Yasmeen Serhan Jul 13, 2016 News
NEWS BRIEF The FBI issued an arrest warrant for polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs Wednesday after he escaped house arrest by slipping out of his GPS tracking bracelet using a common kitchen staple: olive oil.
-- "He used a substance which may have been olive oil to lubricate the GPS tracking band and slip it off his ankle," Eric Barnhart, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Salt Lake City field office of the FBI, said in an interview with FOX 13. "The damage to the bracelet was not such to trigger the full array of alarms that law enforcement or the U.S. Marshal's Service would have responded to." --
The FLDS is a polygamist off-shoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The FLDS came under national scrutiny in 2011 after Jeffs’ brother and then-church leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of child rape and sentenced to life in prison.
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