Lyle Jeffs

Lyle Jeffs is the brother of Warren Jeffs and a bishop in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly referred to as the FLDS Church.

Lyle is the son of Rulon Jeffs, who was president of the FLDS Church from 1986 until his death in 2002. In 2012, the United States Department of Labor began an investigation into the role of the FLDS Church and Jeffs in suspected child labor violations.

Jeffs allegedly escaped house arrest in June 2016 by slipping out of an FBI ankle bracelet.

On June 14, 2017, Jeffs was arrested by the FBI in Yankton, South Dakota.

On September 20, 2017, Jeffs pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal to one count of defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) one count of failure to appear in court, while a money laundering charge was dismissed. Jeffs was sentenced on December 13, 2017, to nearly five years of prison, three years of probation, and $1 million in restitution.