SALT LAKE CITY – A Bountiful man was sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday for running off with $110,000 from his fiance’s America First CU account after he left her at the alter.
Prosecutors say 42-year-old John Egan persuaded his fiancée to move to Florida last year to start a new life and marry. The woman sold her North Salt Lake condo and furniture before driving to Tampa with her daughter.
She waited for Egan and his son to join her but they never showed up. Instead, investigators say, Egan fled to Mexico with the $109,900 he had withdrawn from the woman's account.
He was arrested in July after a 35-foot sailboat he bought with his fiance’s money and was trying to sail from Mexico to Ireland broke down in Cuban waters.
Egan was charged in U.S. District Court with one count each of bank fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, all felonies. He pleaded guilty to the computer fraud and ID theft charges.
