Records seized from the YFZ Ranch also indicate Jeffs married a 14-year-old while at the FLDS property, the affidavit said. A marriage in April 2005 suggests another girl was 12.

"Based on all of the above, affiant believes that Warren Jeffs has committed the felony offense of sexual assault of a child," Gilbert wrote, adding that Texas authorities were seeking DNA samples to help determine whether Jeffs fathered any children born to underage mothers.

Rod Parker, a Salt Lake attorney acting as a spokesman for the FLDS, said he wanted to see what particular evidence law enforcement had of criminal activity.

"The question is, do they have any evidence of sexual activity with minors and Warren Jeffs?" he said. "I don't know if they do or not. I don't see how DNA, by itself, proves that one way or another."

Jeffs was convicted in Utah of rape as an accomplice for performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin. He is facing charges of sexual misconduct and incest as an accomplice in Arizona, accusing him of performing more child-bride marriages.

Jeffs is also facing a federal grand jury indictment in Salt Lake City, charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution — stemming from his time on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

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