From Deseret News archives:
Suspect in call that led to raid on FLDS has hearing delayed
Possible 'Sarah' must face unrelated charges
Rozita Swinton, 33, was scheduled to appear in an El Paso County courtroom on Friday for a pre-trial hearing on a misdemeanor charge of making a false report to police. The hearing was postponed at the request of her defense attorney.
"He asked for a continuance due to the amount of discovery in this case," said prosecutor Frederick Stein. "I did not object to the defense request because the discovery is very lengthy."
Swinton's next court appearance is scheduled for July 9.
She is accused in a local case of a phony abuse call where she pretended to be a girl named "Dana," who claimed to have been locked in a basement, drugged and sexually abused by her father. The call had dozens of Colorado Springs police officers going door-to-door through a neighborhood, searching for the girl.
"Sarah" claimed she was living on the YFZ Ranch and was pregnant and in an abusive marriage to a man named Dale Evans Barlow. Child welfare authorities and law enforcement responded to the ranch to investigate.
It was then, Texas authorities said, they saw signs of other abuse on the YFZ Ranch. That prompted a judge to order all of the children removed from the property. All 440 children were returned to their parents this week after the Texas Supreme Court and Austin's 3rd Court of Appeals ruled the state acted improperly in removing everyone.
Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran was in contact with Dale Evans Barlow, who was in Colorado City, Ariz. Doran said in a recent interview with the Deseret News that he could not immediately verify where Barlow was.
Even as the raid was being conducted, "Sarah" kept calling. Texas Rangers eventually questioned Dale Barlow but did not arrest him.
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