Arizona may seek court order to get evidence from YFZ Ranch

"No arrests have been made yet," Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said in an e-mail Thursday.

Jeffs, 52, is in a Kingman, Ariz., jail awaiting trial on charges of sexual conduct with a minor, accusing him of performing more underage marriages.

"From his normal, daily phone calls, the jail staff believes he knows he was indicted," Mohave County Sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said Thursday.

Jeffs' attorneys are expected to meet with him today. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he wants to extradite Jeffs to the Lone Star State as quickly as possible. However, that may have to wait until the court proceedings in Arizona are over.

"Texas will likely have to swear out a warrant for him," Carter said.

In Utah, Jeffs was convicted of rape as an accomplice for performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin. He is serving a pair of 5-to-life prison sentences.

The YFZ Ranch was raided in April based on a phone call from someone claiming to be a pregnant 16-year-old girl in an abusive marriage to an older man. When child welfare authorities and law enforcement responded, they said they found other signs of abuse, prompting a judge to order the removal of hundreds of children.

They were all returned to their families when two Texas courts found that the state acted improperly and there was no imminent risk of abuse to the children.

The calls that launched the raid are still being investigated as a hoax.

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