An 18-year-old white man, jailed on public intoxication charges, was accidentally released from a South Carolina jail after pretending to be a 34-year-old black man.

Richard Daniel Wines, 18, was given a five-day jail sentence Saturday after he pled guilty to the charges against him. He walked out of the jail the very same day after claiming he was Jonathan Jermain Gardner, another prisoner who was set to be released that day, the Myrtle Beach Sun News reported.

Wines was given Garder's possessions when we was freed at 10:42 a.m.

"It was an error to release him, and we're handling it internally,'' Capt. David Knipes, spokesman for the Myrtle Beach Police Department, told the Sun News.

Knipes said the jail officers did not follow complete procedures, such as verifying the prisoner's name, date of birth, Social Security number and address before release.

Gardner, also jailed for public intoxication, plans to talk to jail officials about how this mistake occurred.

"I don't understand it,'' Gardner, who was released from jail Saturday afternoon, told the Sun News. "They're supposed to ask you for your Social Security number and whatever. As far as I've been told, they didn't do any of that. And they gave him all of my valuables.''

Gardner told police he was sleeping when his name was originally called to be released.