LAS VEGAS — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was in fair condition Wednesday under tight security at a Nevada hospital, a day after he was found “convulsive,” weak and feverish in an Arizona jail cell, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.
“We’re not told what his diagnosis is,” said Trish Carter, spokeswoman for Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan. “But based on our observations from jail staff, it does not appear to be life-threatening.”
The 52-year-old leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was convicted by a Utah jury last year of two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice. He is charged in Arizona as an accomplice with four counts of sexual conduct with a minor stemming from the marriages he allegedly arranged between underage girls and older men.
