Feds Say Man Stole ID Of Murdered Boy

An employee and former manager for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission is in jail in Idaho — and may be sitting there because he for years assumed the identity of a boy killed 28 years ago in Ohio.

The man, known in Oregon as “Jason Evers,” has been charged in federal court with providing false information on a passport application. U.S. marshalls arrested Evers in Idaho on April 27, according to a report in The Bulletin of Bend, Ore.

Meanwhile, the father of the late Jason Evers, a three-year boy who was murdered in Ohio 28 years ago, said he has received phone calls from federal agents in recent days, who had indicated the Oregon man had assumed his son’s identity.

“He’s an impostor,” Bob Evers, of Cincinnati, told the Bulletin.

Bob Evers said the federal investigators said the Oregon man known as Jason Evers claimed to have the same date of birth as Bob Evers’ son — Jan. 6, 1979, and that the Oregon man had obtained a copy of his dead son's birth certificate.

The Bulletin report indicated that the Oregon Evers has spent most of a decade, if not longer, using the identity.

Evers was hired, as Jason Evers, by the liquor control commission, which ensures commercial establishments are following state liquor laws, in 2002. He eventually became a regional manager over several counties.

It’s not clear what the man’s real identity is. Nor is it clear whether he used the false identity for fraudulent purposes — other than the charges involving the false information on a passport.