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Show Polygamist fugitive Warren Jeffs arrested in Nevada to face charges of marrying off girls LAS VEGAS (AP)-The charismatic leader of a polygamous sect was capr? -lured during a traffic stop three months after being put '•*' bn the FBI's Most Wanted List and faces charges he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men. - Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, 'was arrested without incident just outside Las Vegas late Monday after more 'than a year on the run, the FBI said. No weapons were found, but the 2007 red Cadillac Escalade he was riding in was filled with items including three wigs, 15 cell phones and tens of thousands of dollars in cash and gift cards, authorities said. Jeffs leads the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a group that broke away from the Mormon church a century ago. He is said to have at least 40 wives and nearly 60 children. Church dissidents say that underage marriages _ some involving girls as young as 13 _ escalated into the hundreds under his leaders h i p , and that he broke apart families by casting out married men and reassigning their women and children to others. Arizona Attorney General ° Terry Goddard told KTARAM of Phoenix that Jeffs' "arrest marks "the beginning of the end of... the tyrannical rule of a small group of people over the practically 10,000 followers of the FLDS sect." He predicted it will lead more people to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse. Most of the church's members live in Hildale, Utah, and adjoining Colorado City, Ariz., but authorities have said they believe Jeffs had "safe houses" in four other states _ including Nevada _ and Canada. Jeffs' vehicle was stopped on Interstate 15 for having a temporary Colorado license tag that wasn't easily readable, FBI and Nevada Highway Patrol officials said. John E. Lewis, special agent in charge of the FBI Phoenix division, said the trooper became suspicious when Jeffs identified himself as John Findley using a contact lens receipt from Florida as identification. "That would commonly say to the average police officer that there is something wrong, so I am going to continue to probe just a little bit," Lewis said, Jeffs confirmed his identity to an FBI agent who was called to the scene. He would not tell investigators where he had been hiding out, but he did say "that he was being subject to what he termed religious prosecutions," Lewis said. Items inside the vehicle PUPPETS From page 2 the former dictator Suharto's children, whose unbridled greed came to symbolize his authoritarian three-decade reign. 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You got to get everything Officials in the Miamiready, make sure it works," Dade and Fort Lauderdale he said. "It's like a prep areas urged mobile home storm." ^-'residents to evacuate, Ernesto killed at least though not all did so. two people in Haiti, includBy late afternoon, there ing a woman washed out to were more than a thousea Sunday from a southern sand people at shelters in island, the country's civil • Broward and Miami-Dade protection agency said. 'counties. Latosha Mikell There were no reports 'reluctantly brought her 9~ of damage or deaths in month-old son to a Miami Cuba. In an unusual pubshelter. lic acknowledgment of the "There is no privacy cooperation that has long here," she said. "There is no existed between U.S. and oedding, and there are a lot Cuban weather services, the of people just sleeping on hurricane center thanked the floor." Cuba's government for permitting reconnaissance airDamage from 2005 and craft "to fly right up to their 2004 hurricanes continues coastline to gather this critito plague many residents, cal weather data." with thousands still awaiting roof repairs. Meanwhile, off Mexico's In Miami, 49-year-old west coast, Hurricane Luckner Senatus prepared John grew into a powerto move his family to their ful Category 3 storm, with nearby church. His neat maximum sustained winds included $54,000 in cash, gift cards totaling $10,000, the cell phones and wigs, four laptop computers, a GPS device, a police scanner, and numerous unopened envelopes that were thought to contain more cash, Lewis said. Jeffs was being held Tuesday in Clark County jail, awaiting a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The two people traveling with him, wife Naomi Jeffs and a brother, Isaac Steed Jeffs, both 32, were released and will not be charged, FBI agent Steven Martinez said. Martinez said Warren Jeffs initially used an alias, but Martinez would not disclose the name. Jeffs is wanted in Utah and Arizona on charges of arranging two marriages between underage girls and older men. The charges include two counts of rape as an accomplice in Utah, with each count punishable by up to life in prison. He had been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list since May, with a $100,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture. The FLDS Church split from the mainstream Mormon Church when the Mormons disavowed polygamy more than 100 years ago. Warren Jeffs took over the renegade sect in 2002 after the death of his 98-year-old father, Rulon Jeffs, who was said to have had 65 children by several women. Warren Jeffs took nearly all his father's widows as his own wives. Jeffs has been called a dangerous extremist by those familiar with his church. 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