Felix Urioste will be released from the Davis County Jail after serving half his sentence for running up bills on his husband's credit cards and forging his name on a check.
Urioste, who prosecutors say pretended to be a woman during his three-year marriage to Bruce Jensen, will go to New Mexico and live with his sister, attorney Marlin Criddle told Judge Rodney S. Page.Page ordered Urioste, 34, released if probation officials confirm that his sister has a place for him to live and a job lined up.
In a settlement agreement reached last month, Urioste agreed to pay Jensen $10,000 in restitution for bills he ran up using Jensen's credit cards during their marriage.
He has already paid $5,500 - money he earned selling his story worldwide to tabloid television shows and newspapers - and Tuesday agreed to pay $100 a month on the remaining debt.
After pleading guilty to one count of forgery and one count of communications fraud in October, Urioste was sentenced to a year in the county jail but promised a review in six months.
Urioste was arrested last June in Las Vegas after Jensen reported him missing. Urioste, still posing as a woman and using the name Leasa Herrera Jensen, had told Jensen he was suffering from cancer and was going to New York for treatment, according to police.
Prosecutors and Jensen maintain Urioste created an elaborate fraud, posing as a woman and telling Jensen she was pregnant with twins fathered by him, and then running up between $40,000 and $50,000 in bills on a dozen credit cards during their marriage.
Urioste and his attorney, Marlin Criddle, however, say Jensen was aware of Urioste's sexual identity, knew he was undergoing sex change operations, and also participated in using the credit cards for such things as trips to Western Athletic Conference events out of state and shopping trips.
The couple was married in 1991 in Jensen's hometown of Lyman, Wyo., and lived in Bountiful during their marriage. The union is being annulled in 2nd District Court, with last month's restitution agreement part of the settlement.