A Florida dad missed the birth of his second child after he was wrongly imprisoned for two weeks in a whirlwind case of mistaken identity.

Samuel Vasquez, a 29-year-old father from Jacksonville, was eagerly awaiting the birth of his daughter when he was cuffed on assault charges and locked away in the Duval County Jail on Sept. 12.

He was soon extradited to Polk County — just over 200 miles away — to face crimes he never committed in a city completely alien to him.

Meanwhile, 41-year-old Samuel Vazquez, who was wanted for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend and her dog outside of a grocery store in Polk County, was walking free. 4

A one-letter discrepancy in their last names put the expecting father wrongfully behind bars for nearly two weeks as he pleaded his innocence to anyo

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