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Beware of FLDS enforcers, Texas told

Published: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:06 a.m. MDT
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Other FLDS members showed up on the dossiers for a variety of things, from staring down and intimidating witnesses, being an active member of Warren Jeffs' security team, or holding a high rank in the FLDS Church's hierarchy.

Utah police also warned Texas officials of so-called "wild cards" or "religious fanatics," including Ruth Cooke, a woman police said is "blindly devoted to Warren and the FLDS religion," according to the dossiers.

"She is just the kind of person who may be capable of doing something crazy but justified in her head," the dossiers state.

Dee Yeates Jessop is another "intimidating enforcer" who police described as a fanatic who blindly follows Jeffs. Witnesses told police Dee Yeates Jessop is "relatively unimportant" in the church's command structure.

"His social status makes all the more dangerous. What would he do to improve his standing?" according to the dossiers.

Several other high-ranking church officials show up in the dossiers, like William E. Jessop, a high-ranking elder in the FLDS Church, and David Allred, who is involved in the church's finances and is "fairly high in the FLDS pecking order." However, the dossiers said the men were unlikely to be considered a threat, but could be involved in the decision-making process because of their positions of power.

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Both Willie Jessop and Parker, who has also acted as a spokesman for the church, discounted the dossiers.

"If they are going to malign people's character like that, they ought to have something better than someone staring at somebody or looking at them funny," Parker said. "This is the same kind of rumor-mongering that I've been complaining about for a long time. These rumors tend to feed on themselves."


Contributing: Nancy Perkins.

E-mail: ldethman@desnews.com

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