I was heading to bed and noticed search traffic picking up around information on the FLDS Texas YFZ Ranch.
183 women and children were taken from the 1,691 acre ranch on Friday, authorities have not left the property in Schleicher County.

Over a thousand media outlets are covering or picking up the story of law enforcement and child services removing women and children - there is a gag order issued for those involved. (police, lawyers, child services etc) in the current search at the ranch in the state of Texas. Texas authorities sealed off roads to the ranch Thursday night after receiving a complaint of abuse from a 16 year old girl on Monday.

Authorities are looking for 50 year old Dale Barlow.
He was sentenced to jail last year after pleading no contest to conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor and was ordered to register as a sex offender and was last believed to be in Arizona.  They are looking for records around his recent marriage to the 16 year old who called out for help. She has an 8 month old child.
It is believed about 150 people lived on the ranch two years ago, current news reports estimate about 400 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints live on the property, 200 miles northwest of San Antonio, outside a town of about 2000 people.

The Eldorado Success - local paper

There are excellent resources available online to help people understand the history of this sect.  
One is the Polygamy Files - a blog at the Salt Lake Tribune.

A lot of people I spoke with today, those who support and those who oppose polygamy, brought up the 1953 Short Creek Raid. That’s when Arizona authorities entered the community now known as Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., and took nearly 263 women and children into custody. They remained in custody for two years, and then returned to the border towns.

Those children are now adults; some of them live at the YFZ Ranch.

There is a Canadian connection - Bountiful BC.
Daphne Bramham, who writes for the Vancouver Sun has a book out: The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect

“Jeffs and Blackmore continue to direct and control almost every aspect of their followers’ lives. With the increased prosecution, Jeffs has ordered many of his followers to leave Utah and Arizona and move to several new communities, including the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch near El Dorado, Tex., where he consecrated the first fundamentalist Mormon temple while he was still a fugitive.

“Blackmore has moved many of his followers to Idaho and has made numerous trips to fundamentalist communities across the United States and Mexico to gather more faithful to his flock.

“Girls are still being forced into marriages. Boys are still driven out to make the polygamous arithmetic work for the older men. Neither boys nor girls are getting an adequate education in either country. And Arizona’s attorney general admits that reintegrating the communities into the mainstream after years of isolation and theocratic rule is still years away.

“How is it,” Bramham asks in her prologue, “that two nations, so clear-sighted in recognizing human rights atrocities in other countries and so fearless in taking on tyrannical rulers on the other side of the world, have been so blind to the human rights violations committed against their own women and children?”  Toronto Star

The CBC has extensive coverage of the BC branch of the FLDS, while the Fifth Estate documentary was made before Jeff’s arrest and trial, it is more updated than the web-page, which has numerous resources and links. The documentary, Bustup in Bountiful can be viewed online.

Religion News Blog, part of the Apologetics Index has news stories on the  Warren Jeff sect going back years. Here is the feed. As well, The Apologetics Index has an extensive section on polygamy.