Jeffs back in jail after hospital visit

KINGMAN, Ariz., July 10 (UPI) -- Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is back behind bars after spending a day at a Las Vegas hospital, officials said.

Jeffs, the 52-year-old leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sects in Utah and Texas, was taken from his jail cell in Kingman, Ariz., to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas Tuesday amid concerns about his health, the Deseret Morning News reported Thursday.

"Our jail staff observed him being lethargic," Mohave County sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said. "Upon further observation, he was in a weakened state of health. He was acting in a convulsive state like he was shaking, and he was running a fever."

Jeffs was first taken to a Kingman hospital and then flown by medical helicopter to Las Vegas, officials said.

He has been under a medical/suicide watch in the Mohave County Jail since he arrived there on Feb. 26.

Jeffs is serving a pair of five-years-to-life sentences for rape as an accomplice. He was convicted last year of performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.