Jailed polygamist taken to hospital
From Times Wire Reports
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was hospitalized in fair condition under tight security in Las Vegas, a day after he was found “convulsive,” weak and feverish in a Kingman, Ariz., jail cell, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said. Jeffs, 52, of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convicted by a Utah jury last year of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice.
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