ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - When
word spread eight years ago that a strange polygamist sect had picked
their remote corner of Texas to settle in, many in the town of Eldorado
were nervous.
As the San Antonio Express News reports (http://bit.ly/SDc6KZ), some people were downright terrified.
Outside the local courthouse in the Spring of 2004, one woman held a poster that read, "The Devil is Here."
Another man invoked visions of Waco and 1993's armed standoff with a religious fringe group.
But now, the sect's leader, Warren Jeffs, is serving a life prison sentence for sexual offenses.
The group's 1,700-acre
Yearning for Zion ranch is largely abandoned, and the state is trying to
seize it in a forfeiture action filed this week.
And many in Eldorado say fears about the sect have subsided.
Information from: San Antonio Express-News, http://www.mysanantonio.com
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