Imprisoned Polygamist Pestering SD County

SOUTH DAKOTA
KDLT

A polygamist who’s in prison for sexual assault has been pestering South Dakota county officials with letters and boxes of books.

Butte County officials say the material is coming from Warren Jeffs and his supporters. Jeffs is leader of a sect called 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.

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