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Bulgarian faces sentencing in Ohio identity theft

The Columbian
Published: January 18, 2011, 12:00am

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Bulgarian man who used a name stolen from a dead Ohio boy to work as an Oregon Liquor Control Commission investigator is facing a two-year federal prison sentence.

Doitchin Krastev pleaded guilty in November to passport fraud and aggravated identity theft for using the name Jason Robert Evers, taken from a 3-year-old boy killed during a 1982 kidnapping in Cincinnati.

The OLCC hired Krastev in 2002 under that name and he worked for the state until last year, when the stolen identity was discovered by U.S. Diplomatic Security Service agents checking on passport applications.

Krastev refused to reveal his past after his arrest, until a tip uncovered he came to the United States in high school but later vanished.

Sentencing was scheduled Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland.

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