PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The case of a Bulgarian man accused of stealing the identity of an Ohio boy and working as a state liquor inspector in Oregon may finally be coming to an end.
Doitchin Krastev was due in federal court in Portland for a Tuesday afternoon hearing expected to result in a plea deal on charges of identity theft and making false statements to the government.
Federal prosecutors say Krastev stole the identity of Jason Robert Evers, who was kidnapped and killed in Cincinnati in 1982 at age 3 — when Krastev was a child in Bulgaria.
Krastev later came to the United States for high school before dropping out of college and assuming the identity of Evers, eventually becoming an Oregon Liquor Control Commission inspector until his past was uncovered.
