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Slick escape: polygamous sect leader uses olive oil to slip free of FBI tracker
Source: The Guardian
Slick escape: polygamous sect leader uses olive oil to slip free of FBI tracker
Lyle Jeffs, who was on house arrest facing fraud charges, escapes
FBI’s GPS monitor by pouring ‘some kind of lubricant’ believed to be
olive oil on his ankle
Sam Levin in San Francisco
Tuesday 12 July 2016 20.28 BST
A leader of the polygamous Utah sect of the Mormon church, who is facing federal fraud charges, escaped from a GPS tracking device using olive oil or another kind of lubricant, according to the FBI.
Lyle Jeffs of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) was released from jail on 9 June pending a trial on charges that he and others swindled the federal government out of millions of dollars in food stamps.
Less than two weeks after a judge released him, Jeffs violated his house arrest, according to the FBI in Utah, which issued a warrant for the 56-year-old’s arrest.
Now, federal investigators say they believe Jeffs escaped the FBI’s monitoring by pouring olive oil or a similar substance onto his ankle to allow him to remove a bracelet that was tracking his whereabouts.
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Lyle Jeffs, who was on house arrest facing fraud charges, escapes
FBI’s GPS monitor by pouring ‘some kind of lubricant’ believed to be
olive oil on his ankle
Sam Levin in San Francisco
Tuesday 12 July 2016 20.28 BST
A leader of the polygamous Utah sect of the Mormon church, who is facing federal fraud charges, escaped from a GPS tracking device using olive oil or another kind of lubricant, according to the FBI.
Lyle Jeffs of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) was released from jail on 9 June pending a trial on charges that he and others swindled the federal government out of millions of dollars in food stamps.
Less than two weeks after a judge released him, Jeffs violated his house arrest, according to the FBI in Utah, which issued a warrant for the 56-year-old’s arrest.
Now, federal investigators say they believe Jeffs escaped the FBI’s monitoring by pouring olive oil or a similar substance onto his ankle to allow him to remove a bracelet that was tracking his whereabouts.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/12/lyle-jeffs-mormon-utah-fbi-escape-olive-oil