Man refuses to reveal his name

May 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore.

An Oregon man who has refused to reveal his true name after being accused of assuming the identity of a murdered Ohio boy will remain in jail pending another hearing on whether he can be released to home detention.

The man who claimed to be Jason Robert Evers appeared in federal court Friday for a hearing that ended with a decision to resume Monday.

The man had been an Oregon Liquor Control Commission investigator for eight years before a passport application check resulted in a federal charge and allegations he had taken the name of a 3-year-old boy murdered in Cincinnati in 1982.

Another man was convicted of that murder, and there was no link to the Oregon man other than the child’s name was available, according to attorneys in the case.

The man was arrested last month in Idaho on a charge of making a false statement on a passport application and extradited to Oregon, where he maintains a home in Bend.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacie Beckerman told a judge “the government does not know who this person is.” His attorney, Susan Russell, asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Hubel for home detention in Bend with electronic monitoring.

The Friday hearing was postponed until Monday.