SWEETWATER, Tenn (WVLT) -- A suspected con man wanted in Monroe County on theft charges is really a prison escapee from Michigan, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents.

TBI spokesperson Kristin Helm says Jamie Lee Turpin is really Todd Joseph Sweet.

Sweet escaped from a prison work program at the Kinroos Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula of Mighigan in May of last year. At the time he was serving time for larceny, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections website.

Sweetwater Police says Sweet and another woman, identified as Jamie Lea Turpin came to town a few weeks ago and began telling tall tales about all the money he had.

The TBI says Sweet posed as a multimillionaire out of Canada who stated he owned more than a dozen casinos in Las Vegas, NV and offered to buy a local farm in Loudon County, TN for $29,000,000.

Agents say he had someone purchase several vehicles from a local Ford dealership, promising to pay them back, but he instead skipped town.

Sweet, 34, has brown hair and brown eyes. He’s 5’8” and weighs about 230 lbs.

The TBI says he is driving a stolen 2005 Dodge 4x4, 4-door pick up. He has tattoos on his left forearm of doves and three female names. His right forearm has a military type tattoo.

He's on the run with a woman named Donna Poe Johnson. She is five months pregnant with twins, according to the TBI.

Jamie Lea Turpin is in jail on a theft charge.

If you have seen Sweet or Poe, or know of their whereabouts, call the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND.