{"id":320384,"date":"2014-12-06T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320384"},"modified":"2014-12-08T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:51:15","slug":"evictions-begin-in-utah-polygamous-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320384","title":{"rendered":"Evictions Begin in Utah Polygamous Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/thumb_warren_jeffs_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/thumb_warren_jeffs_1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_warren_jeffs_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-320385\" \/><\/a>SALT LAKE CITY (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Officials in southern Utah are serving evictions on the first of possibly dozens of homes in Warren Jeffs\u2019 polygamous sect. Jeffs is serving a life sentence in a prison near Palestine, Texas, for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides. Attorney Jeffrey Shields says a county constable was doing seven evictions Friday in Hildale, Utah, on the Arizona border. Shields is working with officials appointed by a Utah judge to oversee the trust the homes belong to. Evictions of seven other homes are expected within weeks. Next year, dozens more homes could face the same fate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The evictions were ordered this summer by Utah state Judge Denise Lindberg, who said she was fed up with a free-rider problem in the community. The residents are among families on the Utah-Arizona border who for years have failed to pay occupancy fees of $100 a month, depriving the state-run trust of more than $4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Officials in southern Utah are serving evictions on the first of possibly dozens of homes in Warren Jeffs\u2019 polygamous sect. Jeffs is serving a life sentence in a prison near Palestine, Texas, for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides. Attorney Jeffrey Shields says a county constable was doing seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evictions Begin in Utah Polygamous Community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 12:55:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320463,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320384\/revisions\/320463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}