Jeffs was jailed in 2016 in connection with a food stamp fraud case in Hildale then was given home confinement.
The FBI said Jeffs was taken into custody about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in southeastern South Dakota, where he is still being held.
Jeffs's brother, Warren Jeffs, is now in prison, though is believed to still be leading his sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He is being held without bond in the Minnehaha County Jail in Sioux Falls, SD.
"Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor ordered Lyle, some FLDS businessmen and the church itself to pay fines totaling nearly $2 million for using children and unpaid labor during a 2012 pecan harvest".
Polygamous sect leader Jeffs has been captured after being on the run for almost a year.
Yankton County Chief Deputy Sheriff Michael Rothschadl told the Associated Press that Jeffs surrendered without incident at a marina near Yankton, where an off-duty police detective spotted a vehicle that authorities believed the fugitive polygamist had been driving.
Jeffs had been living out of a Ford pickup truck and was in the area for, at least, two weeks, according to investigators.
Haug alerted police and his employee called the Federal Bureau of Investigation - providing authorities with store video of Jeffs, pawn paperwork bearing his information and the vehicle Jeffs was driving: A silver Ford-F-150 pickup truck.
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Rothschadl says police made the traffic stop as Jeffs drove through the marina after using a bathroom. The FLDS has a compound in South Dakota, though it is on the opposite side of the state - nearly 400 miles away from where Jeffs was booked into jail.
Jeffs was released from jail last June while he awaited trial; but, The Post reported at the time, he "was confined to his Salt Lake County home with few exceptions, told he couldn't contact various people affiliated with the sect, and made to wear a Global Positioning System monitoring device". Jeffs is facing trial in a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme.
The FBI had issued a $50,000 reward for information leading to Jeffs' arrest and Barnhart said the agency is working to determine if the unidentified tipster will get paid. Jeffs is the brother of Warren Jeffs, a former leader of the FLDS sect, who was imprisoned for life for child sexual assault in 2011 for taking a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old kids as child brides.
Huber said Jeffs' flight "will play a significant part in the prosecution".
John Huber, the U.S. Attorney for Utah said additional charges of fleeing could be added to the fraud charges.
Nine of them accepted plea deals and on had his charges dismissed.
The office will be under pressure from critics of the sect who believe federal prosecutors went too easy on the other defendants. "They feel god protected them". Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven. Known to the faithful as "R23", the compound sits along a gravel road, secluded by tall pine trees, a privacy fence and a guard tower. It's not clear if FLDS members provided Jeffs support while he was on the run, but Barnhart said the fugitive bishop had limited communication and resources over the past year. Yankton is 400 miles from an FLDS compound outside the tiny town of Pringle in southwestern South Dakota.
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