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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Board of Pardons and Parole has issued a warrant for a Utah man convicted of murder, aggravated sexual assault and fraud, among several other crimes.

Frank Gene Powell, 57, is listed as “escaped” in the Federal Bureau of Prisons online inmate locator as of Jan. 16, 2026. A warrant for his arrest was issued by Utah’s parole board on Jan. 30, 2026.

The KSL Investigators have reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Salt Lake City Field Office as well as the U.S. Marshals Service with questions about why no alert to the public about Powell’s fugitive status has been initiated. We have not yet heard back.

Powell was most recently sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2020 to a slew of federal charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and tampering with a witness. He was also ordered to pay nearly $274,000 in restitution after targeting an 80-year-old widow in a “romance fraud” scheme.

“Powell is a career criminal who has fended off decades of rehabilitative attempts in the Utah state criminal justice system. He’s a convicted murderer and sexual predator who has now turned his criminal efforts to elder fraud while on state parole,” former U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber said via a news release in 2020.

Powell was on parole when he defrauded the woman after he spent nearly three decades in the Utah State Prison for murdering a man in Utah County in 1987 in what began as a fight over whose truck was faster. Powell ran over and killed Glen Candland, 20, after a house party in Pleasant Grove. Powell is also convicted of two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault against another inmate while incarcerated.

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