Somewhere, a gentleman named Leonardo Silva Oliveira is on the run from the South Florida legislation.

Someplace else in South Florida, a further guy named Leonardo Silva Oliveira just expended five days in jail because, in accordance to his attorney, the police saw the similar name, a passing resemblance and a birthday considerably less than two months from the other man’s.

The first Mr. Oliveira, who was arrested on prices of burglary and grand theft in 2017, is required in Palm Seashore County on charges of probation violation, according to the Coconut Creek Police Division.

But the second Mr. Oliveira, a 26-year-old cook dinner, was arrested at the restaurant exactly where he works on Jan. 20, accused of currently being the 1st Mr. Oliveira. Other than sharing the exact name, each adult males have moderately lengthy dark hair, and the fugitive Mr. Oliveira was born 10 times right before the cook.

Scotty Leamon, a spokesman for the Coconut Creek Law enforcement Section, said the arrest “was dependent on the totality” of what his officers had.

He explained the Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s Business experienced contacted his section on Jan. 19, outlining that they experienced a warrant for Mr. Oliveira, the fugitive, and that he had an address in Coconut Creek, which is west of Fort Lauderdale.

“The license matched, the photo matched, the Social Safety number matched,” Mr. Leamon explained on Thursday. Mr. Leamon also stated that just one of his officers took a picture of Mr. Oliveira and despatched it to a Palm Beach County deputy who confirmed that Mr. Oliveira was the male they had been wanting for.

Mr. Oliveira, the cook, was booked into the Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

A attorney for Mr. Oliveira claimed his consumer experienced insisted to the authorities that they had the incorrect individual. “His pleas to distinct this horrendous error have gone on deaf ears from all people in the method,” he stated in a statement.

“At some stage soon after Oliveira was booked into the jail, he claimed he was not the person detailed on the warrant,” Carey Codd, a spokesman for the sheriff’s business office, said in a statement on Thursday.

Mr. Oliveira told The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which described his arrest on Wednesday, that the authorities need to have recognized that he was the wrong particular person for the reason that he is 10 days young and does not have tattoos. A police report from 2017 said the fugitive Mr. Oliveira experienced tattoos of structures on his left arm and one particular of a clock on the appropriate.

“They checked my arms,” Mr. Oliveira told The Sunlight Sentinel. “They didn’t see any. But they still took me in.”

His law firm, Jose Castañeda, claimed in an interview that “the tattoo was a distinct giveaway the descriptions did not match, the day of births didn’t match.” He also explained his shopper had never been arrested prior to, and that he was employed many times after Mr. Oliveira was taken to jail.

His consumer was unveiled on Tuesday, when officers found that his fingerprints did not match those people of the fugitive. Mr. Castañeda explained the encounter experienced been “a nightmare” for his client and his relatives.

“You can just visualize the joy of when he got out,” he explained. “He was so energized.”

Mr. Castañeda explained his consumer was not charged with a crime, just misidentified as the fugitive.

Michael Schutt, one more lawyer for Mr. Oliveira, stated in a statement that the staff was investigating “to detect all culpable functions to this injustice.” He extra, “It is important that all those people accountable be held accountable.”