Prosecutor: Man's two wives meet on Facebook

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By msnbc.com staff

A Seattle-area corrections officer has been charged with bigamy after his two wives learned about each other on Facebook, prosecutors say.

Alan O?Neill, 41, married his first wife in 2001, when he was known as Alan Fulk, according to The News Tribune of Tacoma.? The couple split up eight years later, and Fulk moved out, but the pair never divorced, the newspaper reported.

Last December, he reportedly petitioned to have his name changed to O?Neill before marrying his second wife.

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The first wife allegedly learned about the second wife when Facebook recommended the two women become ?friends,? Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told The News Tribune.

O?Neill, who has worked as a Pierce County corrections officer for five years, has been placed on administrative leave and is scheduled to appear in court March 22 on the felony charge.

Lindquist told the newspaper that the first wife alerted authorities to the dual marriages after he asked her to keep quiet about it while he fixed the situation.

Apparently, she wasn?t convinced.

?It?s not the crime of the century, but it is a crime,? Lindquist told the newspaper.

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