With the legal battles related to the raid on the FLDS compound in Texas looking as though they will continue for years, here, via a public record request, is an example of past police investigations into the sect.

We all know how Warren Jeffs was on the run for the better part of two years until the Nevada Highway Patrol pulled him over in August 2006. At the same time, police were investigating some of his various so-called safe houses, including one in Fremont County, Colo.

These are among more than 50 photographs the sheriffs office there took of that house and the people coming and going from there. The photographs include the house, people and license plates of the vehicles there. The investigative file, which The Tribune obtained through a records request, also includes a handwritten list of people suspected to have resided at the house.

The dates on the photographs indicate the sheriff's office continued monitoring the house into October 2006, even after Jeffs' capture.

— NC

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