Jeffs will be returned to Utah

ST. GEORGE — Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, on the run from the law, had a list of safe houses and the names of people who facilitated his eluding capture.

In documents seized by police when Jeffs was arrested late Monday night, details about his intricate network support were revealed, including maps, lists of individuals contributing money and a list of people providing safe houses.

Also included in the seizure was a directive from the man once on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List; "So, I have to be hiding in my travels, not let anyone know. And when I come to a land of refuge, you must not reveal where I am in your phone calls and your letters."

That evidence, revealed in court papers filed in St. George's Fifth District Court, is what prompted Washington County prosecutors on Wednesday to seek a no-bail order on Jeffs.

Jeffs waived extradition on criminal charges of rape as an accomplice for arranging child bride marriages Thursday after a brief court appearance in a Las Vegas.

Dressed in a blue jail jumpsuit with his hands cuffed to his waist, Jeffs spoke softly as he answered questions from a Las Vegas Township Justice Court judge.

"Are you Warren Jeffs?" Judge James Bixler asked.

"Yes," Jeffs said, nodding his head.

Bixler explained the extradition process as Jeffs stood in a jury box, surrounded by SWAT team members and facing several news cameras.

The polygamist leader appeared thin. His hair was dark with streaks of silver on the sides.

The judge finally asked Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist LDS Church, what he wanted to do.

"I ... go ahead and be extradited," he said after a brief pause.

After the hearing, Jeffs met with an investigator who has dogged him for years.

"I wanted to put a human being with a picture and, of course, I needed to try to talk to him," Mohave County Attorney's investigator Gary Engels told the Deseret Morning News. "We chit-chatted a little bit."

Engels has been pursuing Jeffs since being directed by the Mohave County Attorney to investigate crimes within the polygamous border town of Colorado City, Ariz. Through his investigations, prosecutors in Arizona have brought a number of charges against polygamists. The trial of one starts next week.