Brown County Commissioners Inundated with Letters from Sect Leader Warren Jeffs

By Scott Waltman
Aberdeen News
January 10, 2012

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Brown County commissioners are among the elected officials in South Dakota getting letters from an imprisoned sect leader and his supporters.

Commissioners said at their Tuesday meeting said that they're regularly getting letters and packages from Warren Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Jeffs is serving a life term, plus 20 years, in a Texas prison for sexually assaulting two young girls he claimed as his wives. A group affiliated with Jeffs owns land in Custer County.

Brown County commissioners are ignoring his letters. Jeffs' Arizona-based church has also been sending piles of letters to other counties in the state.

The letters mention a series of prophecies and warn leaders against wicked ways. In some, Jeffs claims "keyholding power of authority on Earth."

Contact: swaltman@aberdeennews.com