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By Jill Hunt jill@thespectrum.com | |
COLORADO CITY - The acting mayor of Colorado City was arrested Friday evening and booked into Purgatory Correctional Facility on a $5,000 cash-only bail. Terrill C. Johnson, 57, was charged with eight counts of false evidences of title and registration - a second-degree felony. Johnson has filled in as mayor since Richard Allred resigned as mayor Feb. 16. One Washington County Sheriff's Office deputy and an officer from the Hildale/Colorado City Marshal's Office served a warrant that was issued out of 5th District Court. According to a press release, law enforcement officers met with Johnson and advised him of the warrant. Johnson surrendered to police without resistance. The arrest came one day after unrelated search warrants were issued on four homes in Colorado City as authorities from Arizona searched for evidence related to eight sexual abuse indictments. Names of the individuals who lived in the homes and what evidence was confiscated has not been released by authorities, however, Mohave County Sheriff Ton Sheahan said that the searches were for "evidentiary information in pending court cases." The border cities of Hildale and Colorado City are comprised mostly of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The sect split from the mainstream LDS Church in the late 1800s after the practice of polygamy was discontinued. Members of the FLDS faith continue the practice of plural marriage. | |
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TheSpectrum.com Originally published May 27, 2006 | |
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