RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota lawman says it appears expansion is planned at a compound in his county operated by a polygamist sect based on the Arizona-Utah border.

Custer County Sheriff Rick Wheeler made the comment after visiting the compound near Pringle, South Dakota, operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

He expects building to resume once the ground thaws.

FLDS church president Warren Jeffs is jailed in Kingman while awaiting trial on sex charges stemming from the arranged marriages of three teenage girls to older men.

Jeffs was convicted in September in Utah in a similar case.

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