DADE CITY -- Marvin Frazer married a woman named Rebecca in New York in 2000. She left him three years later.

"She said she was going on vacation for a week. It's been a very long week," Frazer said today.

He said he heard from her again in 2006 in an e-mail suggesting he should pay for half of their divorce. He later heard from his parents that she told them the divorce was final.

Turns out, it wasn't.

Frazer, who married a woman named Ilene in 2007, got a knock on his door shortly before Christmas from two Zephyrhills police detectives investigating an allegation of bigamy. Frazer, a 45-year-old preschool worker, was arrested and spent four days in jail.

This morning in court, he pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct and was sentenced to time served.

Prosecutors agreed to the deal on the condition that Frazer obtain and finalize a divorce from Rebecca. A judge signed it last week.

"Unfortunately, she got her way," Frazer said. He paid for the whole thing: $583.

Molly Moorhead, Times Staff Writer