Texas sheriff defends raid on YFZ Ranch in one-on-one interview with Deseret News

Doran: Phase two, that's really what I can't talk about. The second search warrant was by the Texas Rangers based on evidence that was located on the property during the initial assistance with Child Protective Services. That's when further evidence of crimes were seen in plain sight by law enforcement.

Deseret News: What types of crimes?

Doran: We're talking about teenage girls, underage girls that were pregnant or had children. That's when that whole thing started surfacing.

Deseret News: What did you think about the decision to search the temple?

Doran: Not my decision.

We were searching for a victim on the property. She has not been located yet. So the scope of the first search warrant was still under way, and the fact that they were moving children around the property and keeping them out of sight. Basically, they were avoiding Child Protective Services and a lot of those were underage pregnant girls.

In the search warrant, it covers every building and documents related to the crime.

Really, I didn't have a factor in it one way or another. As a law enforcement professional, when you're executing a search warrant issued by a district judge, you're going to carry out that search warrant. If that search warrant names every building on the property, then every building on the property will be searched. That's just the way the search warrant's carried out.

I knew it was a sensitive subject and culturally, it was a very sensitive deal. There again, when it comes to enforcing the law, and executing a search warrant and uncovering crimes — really law enforcement doesn't have a choice in the matter. The Rangers were in charge of that.

Deseret News: At one point did you start to wonder if this was a hoax? One court document filed claims that you knew going into this that Dale Barlow was in Arizona and "Sarah" didn't exist.

Doran: That is very incorrect information. That is information that's being put out there that is not accurate.

Upon initially approaching the gate with the Rangers, a phone call was made by the FLDS at the gate and they produced their phone to me stating, 'This gentleman is Dale Evans Barlow.' We never could get a full confirmation if indeed it was Dale Evans Barlow, we could not get full confirmation of his location.