You may have already heard about this from local bartender/restaurant owner who was doing cartwheels and high-fiving strangers on the street, but the embattled former regional manager of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, Jason Evers, is sitting in the Ada County, Idaho, jail right now.
According to a deputy at the jail this afternoon, Evers was arrested on Tuesday, April 27. She couldn’t, however, give any more information about his arrest other than confirming that he is “on a U.S. Marshal hold.” This means that whatever he’s been arrested for came from the Feds.
For those not hip to this story, Evers was a former bartender who became an OLCC investigator and eventually was named the regional manager of an expansive region that includes Bend. After a firestorm of complaints from local restaurant and bar owners who thought Evers was unfairly targeting them, Evers was relocated to Medford. An Oregon Department of Justice investigation soon followed and found that Evers had indeed been overzealous in his enforcement tactics.
This didn’t knock him out of the OLCC, but he ended up transferring to the small town of Nyssa, Oregon, which is on the Idaho border (which explains why he’s in the Ada County jail). It’s still unclear why Evers was arrested and even more intriguing is the fact that whatever he’s being held on suspicion of appears to be some sort of federal violation.
There’s still plenty of mystery involved with this story, but at least you now know why that bartender of yours is in such a good mood today.
This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2010.
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Crazy story in today’s Bulletin about how Evers is believed to have assumed the identity of a 3-year-old Ohio boy who was murdered 25 years ago. More Bend weirdness.
That 3 year old boy is my brother…he was kidnapped and murdered 28 years ago and his murderer is up for parole this June 2010. We are circulating a petition to keep my brother’s murderer behind bars…please sign it. Another traumatic event for my family. It is still unclear who this man is or what he has done…but it does involve my brother…who is no longer here. The petition site is http://www.petition.fm/petitions/jevers. Please help us keep my brother’s murderer behind bars…Thank you….Amy Evers
i,ve looked were to sign the petition to keep that monster in prison and can,t find it.i want to sign it.my heart and prayers
go out to the family
the link is http://www.petition.fm/petitions/jevers
The correct link to sign the petition to keep the murderer of Jason Evers in prison is http://www.petition.fm/petitions/jevers/ (no period at the end) Please take a moment to help keep this monster behind bars to protect all the families out there from going through what the Evers family went through. Amy, my prayers to you and your family.
So, why would JohnDoe(aka J.E.) want to change his identity in 1996. That was fourteen years ago — 1996. My first thought was a teenager wanting a fake ID — but Jason’s birthdate wouldn’t even get JohnDoe into clubs. The Real Jason Evers would have been only 17. How old is the impostor? Why did he need a new identity? Is he older or younger than the person whose ID he stole? Was he just a stupid teenager with no good purpose, or is he truly hiding from something?
Based upon his abuse of business owners and workers in Bend the past 8 years, I would think that he would love to change his ID even more today.
I want to know so much more of this bizarre story.
Amy, if you are still reading, I am so sorry for the loss of your brother, and these very bizarre reminders that he is not with your family today.
Have you considered that this is the real Jason
Evers, and the boy who was buried 28 years ago
was not properly identified. In 1982 they didn’t
have the proper forensic tools to ID a 3 year old.
I think that case needs to be re-opened, a DNA analysis comparing
the sisters DNA to this Jason Evers. He has information that
you just couldn’t get back when he was 17. isn’t it possible
he was kidnapped and is infact the real Jason
Evers. I would have whoever was buried exumed
and find out who that boy is…if DNA wasn’t
positively matched. That’s my opinion.
I think a DNA test is in order, remember This child and the book ” I know my name Stephen” He was kidnapped and told his parents were dead and did not want him. How do you really know that dead little boy is your brother? Because that is what you were told and who is really dead another missing boy? Some childern are never found.
i don’t know if this is the correct site to add my name to the list to deny the killer parole. i’ve tryed many times but fail to find the site to add my name. i’ved never forgotton this little boy. i live close to the ymca where it happened and i had to drive through the area where the killer lived so often. jason’s picture looks so like my grandchild. it broke my heart. i pray for his family.
The correct address to add your name to the petition to keep the killer of little Jason Evers in prison is: http://www.petition.fm/petitions/jevers
Amy: my heart goes out to you and your family for all that you lost when little Jason was “stolen” from your family and murdered!
Justice will be done for this imposter john doe, who used Jason’s identity to establish a new identity for himself! i have a brother too, whom, i love very much! he is a retired F.B.I. agent: he assures me that “john doe” has already been identified, and will be prosecuted for breaking federal passport laws by using an assumed identity (lying)on a federal document. His finger print on that document nailed him! Around thursday or friday this week his identity will become public knowledge, at his arraignment. the info is sealed until then! he will be doing some hard time, with a big $ fine for his crime. MY brother says he was “stupid” to do this post 911: the FBI gets these guys prosecuted and puts them away all the time now:
I live in central oregon, in and around Bend, for the past 11 years! it is heaven compared to east los angeles where our family grew up! easy to see why this guy wanted to live here! the bend bulletin newspaper is following this case closely, as am I. i will sign your petition gladly!
The real, murdered, Jason Evers was THREE years old at the time of the crime. His body was identified by his parents. He was baducted in front of his sister who say the abductor for some time as the murderer talked to them for some time and played with them in the course of the crime which took place at the local YMCA! Thus, this is a solid case and the Oregon man isdefinitely an imposter.
To the people who are suggesting this child was not identified by his loving family at the time of his death, are you friends of Jason Evers?
He has a court date in Ohio. This guy is in so much trouble you best distance yourself from his secrets and start talking to the authorities and tell them everything you know. Hope he doesn’t drag you down with him but perhaps you deserve it.