OGDEN — A man was taken into custody on Saturday after police say he locked his five children, aged six and younger, in a shed outside his home.

Police documents say police initially responded to reports of shoplifting, where a woman was arrested. The woman’s husband later arrived there to pick up their five children from the scene.

The documents said the man gave police a Mexican ID with the name Omar Garcia. However, after he left with the children, police reportedly determined that ID was false and the man was actually 36-year-old Wilber Rojas.

Rojas already had a felony warrant for his arrest in Ogden, as well as a misdemeanor warrant in Sunset, the documents said. Police officers then went to Rojas’ home address, which he had given them earlier when he picked up the children.

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