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If you have $189,000 there are 40 acres of property for sale at 932 Pike Lake Road with a nice gravel road and some brush and trees cleared for a building site.
It’s beautiful property.
Could be the property you are looking to buy!
In December 2018, Seth Jeffs, as the “Managing Member” of Emerald Industries LLC, purchased 40-acres of property just off the Pike Lake Road with the hopes of building a 5,760-square-foot pole barn complete with living quarters. However, after Jeffs pushed in a 900-foot-long road and tried to level and clear some ground with heavy equipment, he was ordered to stop working by the county.
In early July 2019, Cook County placed a temporary cease and desist order on Jeffs, asking him to halt construction on his 40-acre Pike Lake property after they noted 13 violations to his permit.
The order came from Cook County Land Services after they conducted a site visit to the property.
The potential move to Cook County by Jeffs worried a lot of folks.
Seth Jeffs is a leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who believes in child brides and that polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
Seth is the brother of the infamous polygamist Warren Steed Jeffs, the President of the FLDS Church.
In 2011, Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life plus twenty years after being convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault. He had been the leader and prophet of the church since 2001 or 2002, depending on which source is used.
The Jeff family has had many entanglements with the law.
Seth was convicted in 2006 of harboring or concealing his brother Warren and in 2016, he pleaded guilty to a multi-million-dollar food stamp fraud.
In 2017, Lyle Jeffs was sentenced to prison for his role in the same food stamp fraud case and for leaving home confinement while he was on trial.
The FLDS church broke away from the Mormon Church in 1898, so they could continue practicing polygamy, where older men often marry young girls. The main branch was located in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, known as Short Creek. Under the sect’s rules, women are assigned to marry men, keep their hair in a bun, and wear prairie dresses that drape to their ankles.
When Warren Jeffs took over, he banned contact with the outside world, split families up, took young girls for his brides, and excommunicated young men from the church. He was arrested and convicted of sexually assaulting girls that were aged 12 and 14. He called them his “spiritual wives.”
When Warren was convicted, it was estimated that he had married 80 women and girls. It is not known how many wives Seth has.
In 2020 a South Dakota TV station, KELO-TV reported Seth Jeff’s 140-acre property located in Pringle, near the Black Hills, would be sold at an auction on February 25 at the Custer County Courthouse. The sect forfeited on a $1.6 million loan.
This past year Seth purchased 80 acres of secluded property in rural Menomonie, Wisconsin and has been building the property. It seems with the move to Wisconsin and his property for sale located off the Pike Lake Road for sale that Mr. Jeffs has moved on.
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