GREEN LAKE, Wis. -- A Wisconsin man who authorities said faked his own death and fled to Europe was released from jail last week, online records show.

Ryan Borgwardt, 46, was out of custody as of Dec. 2, online records show. He had been sentenced in August to spend 89 days in a county jail after pleading no contest to obstructing an officer.

Borgwardt was reported missing on Aug. 12, 2024 after he didn't return home from a kayaking trip on Green Lake. He was presumed dead after his kayak washed ashore, however investigators later discovered he was alive in Eastern Europe.

Investigators were able to make contact with Borgwardt on Nov. 11, 2024. He reportedly told them that he overturned his own kayak and tossed his phone into Green Lake, then swam to shore.

Borgwardt then rode a bike 80

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