27-02-2020 05:27 via ocregister.com

Officials: O.C. man tricks authorities and escapes from a Utah jail

OGDEN, Utah — A California man convicted of mail fraud escaped from a Utah jail Tuesday night by posing as a fellow inmate whose time had come to be released, authorities said Wednesday.
Kaleb Wiewandt was allowed to leave the jail in Ogden because staff thought he was inmate Matthew Belnap, said Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Joshua Marigoni. Belnap was supposed to be freed Tuesday night after spending more than 70 days in jail after pleading no contest to retail theft charges.
But when
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