Texas says its still investigating Colorado woman in polygamy calls, despite attorney’s claim

Texas: Colorado woman still under investigation

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Texas authorities say they’re still investigating a Colorado woman in connection with bogus phone calls that may have triggered a raid on a Texas polygamist group.

That despite a claim by the attorney for Rozita Swinton that Texas authorities don’t believe she had any “criminal involvement” in the calls. Swinton’s attorney, David Foley, said Wednesday that she won’t face charges.

But Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the Texas attorney general, says the inquiry isn’t over.

Investigators have called Swinton a “person of interest” in connection with calls to a hot line alleging abuse at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ ranch in West Texas.

Authorities later said the hot line calls were fake, and they were traced to a telephone number linked to Swinton.

Texas authorities raided the sect’s ranch in April 2008, seizing records and removing children.