Liquor agent accused of stealing dead child's identity due in court

By KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: May 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM PDT
Liquor agent accused of stealing dead child's identity due in court
Former OLCC regional manager Jason Evers – who was stationed in Bend before complaints of retaliation against licensees and an Oregon Department of Justice investigation caused the OLCC to move him to Medford – is being accused of stealing a dead child's identity.

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon Liquor Control Commission investigator accused of stealing the identity of a murdered Ohio boy will appear in a Portland courtroom Thursday.

Federal prosecutors said the man, who calls himself Jason Evers, started using the little boy's identity in 1996. The regional OLCC manager, who was stationed in Bend before complaints caused the OLCC to move him to Medford, worked for the OLCC for eight years.

Evers was apprehended in Idaho after applying for a passport and using copy of a birth certificate that belonged to a Jason Evers. A U.S. Attorney said they tracked the birth certificate to a 3 year old in Cincinnati who died in 1982.

The Ohio boy died in a case involving kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter. A man already has been convicted for those acts, and the family continues to fight to keep him behind bars.

The man now known as "John Doe, aka Jason Evers" on court documents is no longer being held in Boise jail, according to our news sources there. The U.S. Marshals' Office reported Evers would be in Federal court in Portland at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday to face charges.