Utah parole officials have issued an arrest warrant for 57-year-old Frank Gene Powell after he walked away from a Salt Lake City halfway house and was listed as “escaped” by federal authorities. Powell, a convicted murderer who later admitted to a 2020 elder-fraud conspiracy, has a criminal history stretching back decades and is now under renewed scrutiny after he failed to return to community confinement in mid-January.
Warrant And “Escaped” Status
Per KSL, the Federal Bureau of Prisons says Powell was transferred from FCI Terminal Island to community confinement overseen by the BOP’s Phoenix Residential Reentry Management Office on June 25, 2025. He was later placed on the inmate locator as “escaped” after he failed to return to his assigned…..