New media circus/diversion - 'Most Wanted' polygamist captured

[liberal N proud]

How long will the media hype this one? Currently Breaking News on CNN


LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- The fugitive leader of a polygamist sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.

Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said.

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was wanted in Utah and Arizona on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men. (Watch what led a trooper to find Jeffs -- 2:02)

Since May, Jeffs has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, with a $100,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/29/polygamist.arrest.ap/index.html

This stuff should be on local news and no more.

[quiet.american]

1. Agreed. Local news, nothing more. n/t

[tenshi816]

2. Nevertheless,

I'm glad to know Jeffs has been captured. What he has been doing - or causing to be done - to the young girls in his cult is disgusting.

On the other hand, as you say, I don't need to have the media whores wallowing in sensationalism for the next 6 months just to avoid covering other, more important, news.