Leader: Warren Jeffs, left, smiles during his 2007 trial for coercing the marriage and rape of a 14-year-old follower to her 19-year-old cousin in 2001 Convicted pedophile and imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs continues to wield enormous power over two notorious polygamist towns on the Arizona and Utah border  he used to call home and that non-Mormon residents are spied on a new lawsuit alleges. The Department of Justice has filed a civil-rights motion against Colorado City and Hildale, Utah, which claims that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day, of which Jeffs is the president, runs both town's and not the elected leaders.
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New lawsuit filed in Arizona alleges that Warren Jeffs still wields considerable influence on Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona from his Texas prison
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Mayor of twin-towns, George Allred is alleged to have sought FLDS president Jeff's advice on town appointments and praised him for having a direct link to God
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Lawsuit also alleges the FLDS uses the town's surveillance cameras to watch residents
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Ex-security members allege that they were tipped off by the town's elected officials to outside law enforcement arriving
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Female members of the FLDS had tabs kept on them to stop them from 'escaping'
Home: Two woman talk while children stand on a car in @placeholder, Arizona