Authorities have yet to locate five indicted men
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Texas authorities said Friday five members of a polygamous sect indicted by a Schleicher County grand jury still have not been located.

The jury issued six indictments Tuesday after a daylong session in Eldorado. One was for Warren S. Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who is currently jailed in Arizona.

The identities of the other five men will not be released until they are arrested.

"Still no arrests," said Tela Mange, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, in an e-mail Friday afternoon.

Willie Jessop, a spokesman for the sect, said that the men will turn themselves in if the state provides names of those indicted.

"In Arizona and any other case, the people turn themselves in," said Jessop, referring to prosecutions of eight men charged with sexual conduct with minors. "They never missed a date or anything."

The exception was Jeffs, who was a fugitive when he was arrested in August 2006.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that the men are considered a flight risk. Because of that, the state may have asked 51st District Judge Barbara Walther to set high bonds, a possible obstacle to surrendering.

In the case of Jeffs, the state set a bond of $100,000. - Brooke Adams

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