Ore. man with Ohio ID wants to wed in jail

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore.

An Oregon man who assumed the identity of a murdered Ohio boy says he wants to get married in jail.

Doitchin Krastev is being held at the Multnomah County jail on a federal charge of falsifying a passport application while Ohio prosecutors have accused him of identity theft.

Krastev is a Bulgarian who took on the identity of Jason Evers, an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and murdered in 1982.

Krastev was a boy in Bulgaria at the time and has no link to the death other than claiming to be Jason Evers after he dropped out of college following a move to Washington, D.C., as a teenager.

His lawyer has asked a federal judge for permission for him to get married to his girlfriend, who has not been identified.

But there is a catch — to get a marriage license Krastev will have show his ID, and prosecutors say it was all obtained illegally.

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