For those of you who have found interest in the saga of the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commision) inspector Jason Evers, it appears that the tale is finally coming to an end. If you don’t know much about it, Evers worked for many years as an OLCC inspector in Bend, Oregon where he became a regional manager and created an atmosphere for bar owners and managers that made one feel at any moment they were either about to be shut down or fined to a point that they couldn’t afford to stay in business. Evers kept up his reign of terror until the day someone found out that Ever’s real name was actually Doitchin Krastev and he had stolen his identity from a murdered 3-year-old boy many years ago. He was recently convicted to 24 months in prison here in The States. I am not quite sure why in the age of budget shortfall why we are using tax dollars to incarcerate him, I would think it a better use of resources to have him deported. Unfortunately, there was no mention of his deportation in the most recent news article, which I found surprising.

Anyhow, here’s the link to the most recent story about him.

KATU Story about Jason Evers

And here are links to my other posts about him, it truly is a fascinating story and if you haven’t read through the posts yet – it’s a good way to spend an hour on a cold winter afternoon.

Jason Evers – Who is he? A Tale of Murder and Disguise.

Jason Evers – Man of Mystery

Who are you Jason Evers? We’re dying to know.

Jason Evers – mystery solved Doitchin Krasev

Jason Evers – The Saga Continues

Thank you to the Bend Bulletin for this awesome map of Krasev’s travels.

I don’t have much time unfortunately, as I am leaving in 15 minutes for a week of vacation!!! However, this groundbreaking news had to be touched upon.

Who: Jason Evers aka Doitchin Krasev, aka Danny Kaiser
What: the hell?!?!?!?!?!?
Why: that is still the question
Where: All over the place!
When: Started when he was just a kid.

A real quick synopsis of the story:

Krasev is living in Bulgaria, a Washington D.C. lawyer happens to meet him and his parents and is impressed by Krasev’s wit and charm. He offers to help Krasev get into a prestigious prep school. Horowitz has nothing good to say about the Bulgaria that Krasev was growing up in.

Krasev got a scholarship to study science and math at Davidson College in North Carolina where he had friends a girlfriend. He always seemed to have more money than a guy from a third-world nation working at a pizza shop should and it started to make some people wonder, but by the time they thought much of it – he had disappeared.

Krasev then moved to Denver where he worked for a car tinting company and was a beloved employee. He got a GED and an internet college degree while in Colorado. He also worked weekends at a food-delivery service until 2001. At this point, he was going by Danny Kaiser but had starting taking over the Jason Evers persona.

It was around this time that he moved to Oregon and started working for the OLCC. I hate to offer such a brief rendition of such a fascinating tale as there’s a lot more to the story and I completely recommend spending the $1.50 and reading all the different articles the Bend Bulletin ran this week.

The Bend Bulletin link

Ask and you shall receive.  So who is Jason Evers?  Well it turns out that he’s really a guy named Doitchin Krasev and if you know much about American names – well you can guess he’s not a Jones on the mom’s side.  As for why he changed his identity, well that is still a mystery.  Fortunately, an old friend of Krasev’s saw the news story and recognized him from many years ago when they lived in Colorado together.  Not much else is known like why he changed his identity, except for the fascinating fact that he fluently speaks Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and English and he is an amazing chess player.  Otherwise, we are still dying to know what brought him to Oregon.  Where his reserve of money came from.  And if he had any other names than the known Danny Kaiser, Tigre, and Smiley.  Honestly, I just can’t think of him as Doitchin Krasev (it might help if I even knew how to say it).

The City of Bend is still a tizzy with the bizarre tale of Jason Evers.  For those of you who don’t know who he is – well join the club because none of us do.  But he posed under a false identity for more than a decade most notably working for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) and while under their guise made pretty much every Bendite bar owner’s life a living hell.

“Jason Evers” has recently asked a judge to be released on bail – which seems absolutely ridiculous and thankfully the judge recognized this.  His honor proceeded with obvious questions such as, “Would he drive under his Jason Evers drivers license?” “Would he live in his home purchased under Jason Evers’ name?” “Would he withdraw money from Jason Evers’ account or get health care under a fake identity?”

This news event has spurred a new wave of gossip about town and is the beginning to some conspiracy theories.  What follows are two of my favorites.

“Jason Evers” was a robber of some sorts, most likely banks.  This is where he got the “so-called inheritance.”  The plan went awry with his bandit partners and he had to escape and start again, thus the new name.

“Jason Evers” ran a drug cartel in Latin America, thus why he speaks fluent street Spanish.  He got in trouble with la mafiaosa and came to the States and assumed an identity he purchased once he got here.

I must comment on Evers supporters who don’t care that he has lied to them for years and a matter of fact called him “trustworthy.”  Isn’t the first step of trust knowing that you are talking to the person who is who he says he is.  I can’t imagine knowing this man so well that my heart couldn’t listen to rationale – it would be mind-boggling and make me question my sanity.  But for God’s sake, he has been living a lie the entire time anyone has known him and even now in jail he refuses to admit his true identity.  Where is his mom?  His dad?  Brothers?  Sisters?  Grandparents?  Childhood friends?  Is he the only person in America without a facebook page?  Isn’t it bizarre he’s void of stories from childhood and where he’s from?  Just for a moment think of who you are and the thousands of little tiny incidentals that went into that, and then for that moment think what it would mean to push that all to the side and create them all anew to weave one enormous lie that would become a stranger’s life – but soon that stranger would become you.  Well, we are all dying to know – Who are you “Jason Evers?”

Links to other Jason Evers Posts

As the Jason Evers tale unfolds, things are looking up for a good TNT prime time movie or maybe even an ABC mini series.  Let me first tell you a bit about the OLCC and my personal experiences with Evers.  If you are not from Oregon, there is no way I could ever explain the OLCC to you so that you could understand what it really means to work under their guise.  The OLCC is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and not only oversees and governs according to a 500-page book of laws written right after prohibition but also distributes all the alcohol in the State of Oregon.  For the most part, it works pretty well – because we never see them.  The biggest downfall for craft bartenders in Oregon is many small batch, new, or foreign spirits will never find a home in Oregon.  Ever bottle sold in the state must be approved by a planning commission which charges a sum to have your products listed and available in the OLCC warehouse (so most little companies can’t afford to be listed).

Liquor stores are privately owned but all liquor is distributed by the state, which means that the price is universal no matter where you are in Oregon.  Furthermore, all liquor is bought through the liquor stores and there is no real wholesale (5% off for restaurant and bar accounts – but then we pay a delivery charge, so it really doesn’t amount to much).  It has it’s plus sides, like if you forgot to order something, you can go pick it up any time the liquor store is open.  And you only have one “rep” in effect – the guy who owns the liquor store where you get your liquor.

Jason Evers was head of the Bend OLCC until the beginning of this year, when finally the community said, “enough is enough” and asked the governor to help us find a solution to having him stop his tirade on Bend’s bars and restaurants.  At my establishment, he would have two or three of his goons going through all of our server permits, bar logs, looking for any discrepancies night after night.  My old server permit said my height was 9’6” – obviously a typo.  I never thought anything of it until one of Evers henchmen told me that if I didn’t have it fixed it could result in a $1500 fine.  But it was their error?!?!?!? One day the OLCC changed our liquor license on a whim so that we couldn’t have children in the restaurant anymore, which was ridiculous as we are a restaurant.  Their reasoning was that when you walked in you saw the bar and we didn’t have a velvet rope in accordance with OLCC law.  Why not just tell us to put up a rope (as silly as that seems) rather than come in one day with all new signage.  We had to cancel heaps of dinner reservations the next week while we all sweated as our lawyer made a case on Constitutional law (there is no OLCC court – if they give you a fine you have no way to fight it other than hiring a very expensive lawyer).

Other bars received exorbitant fines for nothing, in two cases it was proven with video that Evers was lying.  He shut down a local hot spot for three and a half weeks because the owner poured himself a drink off the clock.  After all of this, the OLCC did not demote him, but rather gave him a pay raise and promoted him to regional manager – where he ruled with an iron fist.  Finally, enough was enough and the bar and restaurant owners came together to put an end to these injustices.

So it was mesmerizing two weeks ago when the entire community found out that Evers stole his identity from a murdered three-year-old in 1996.  We really know very little about him, that he lived in Denver and worked at a window tinting company (where is was a beloved employee).  That he got a GRE, a bachelors degree, and an on-line masters degree after he filed for a SS# when he lived in Denver.  And that he came to Bend, he worked at a nightclub and then after took the job with the OLCC.  He was even engaged to a local woman for five years, who never questioned that he wasn’t who he appeared to be.  He spoke fluent street Spanish.  He claimed to be orphaned and had a rich uncle who left him a heap of money upon his death.  So that’s all we have to go on.  We don’t know his real name.  We don’t know where he is from.  We don’t know where he got the money.  We don’t know how he came across this ID.  We don’t why he was so evil while in his position in the OLCC.  And we certainly don’t know why he thought it a good idea to apply for a passport with a stolen Social Security number, but I’m glad he did.  Because sometimes it feels like justice is served.

Link to most current newspaper story on Jason Evers.

Jason Evers – Who is he?

This past end of 2009, the local rag asked me to write the Top 10 reasons we’re glad Jason Evers is gone. For those of you who don’t much about Jason Evers – here’s some insight.
First, you need to know about the OLCC, which is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, a sort of Gestapo of policing liquor consumption in the state of Oregon. They hand out sanctions according to a 500-page rulebook, most of it written right after prohibition. If you spend much time reading the book, you find that many of the rules are non- sensical and contradict other laws in the book. For the most part, the OLCC inspectors make sure that you aren’t over serving or serving people under age, until Jason Evers came onto the scene. He would camp out in your bar with his OLCC inspectors and start issuing citations for the most bizarre things. Dealing with the OLCC is difficult – as there is not court. If they’ve deemed you should be fined or shut down, for the most part there is little you can do. The best call is to find a very sly lawyer who is willing to fight back on constitutional law or a case of slander.
Last year, the bars and restaurants in Bend were under siege. Evers was doling out fines like they were candy at a Fourth of July parade. Everyone in the restaurant business was perpetually afraid for their lively hood, for at any moment Evers could be at your door trying to close you down for some tiny violation or no violation at all. Finally, enough was enough and the restaurant and bar owners banded together behind a local city council women and the governor of Oregon and they had a formal investigation where they decided that Evers was out of his jurisdiction. He was moved to another OLCC office (where he was promoted!?!?!?!?!?!).
Bend’s been a much happier place since then! So it was only fascinating a couple of days ago when it appeared in the local newspaper that Jason Evers is in jail in Idaho with no bond. It turns out that Jason Evers isn’t Jason Evers – no one knows who he is. He applied for a passport and when they ran the social security number it turns out that his identification had been stolen from a three-year old murder victim from Ohio. You can read the full story here.

Jason Evers – who is he?

Anyhow, I thought it would be a good time to reprint the top ten Top 10 reasons we’re glad Jason Evers is gone.

The Top 10 Reasons We’re Glad Jason Evers is Gone!!!!

10

The servers of Bend can sleep free of nightmares that the OLCC will kidnap and torture them because they forgot to bring their server permit to work

9

Astro Lounge will be open year round

8

The amphitheatre will rage with big shows once again

7

Bend’s restaurants have a better chance of wading out the recession without having to pay fines or lawyer fees on trivial or false allegations

6

Bar managers can stop spending sleepless nights scouring the 500-page OLCC legal code to ensure they know the law better than the “law” knows it

5

Restaurateurs can be relieved that their liquor license no longer changes on a random rotating weekly basis

4

We can work with the OLCC instead of being afraid of it

3

Bend is just a much happier place without him

2

estaurant workers can go back to gossiping about each other rather than having one common enemy

1

Parents can dine with their children again even if there is a bar stool in their peripheral vision

And the new number one –

We’re not glad the real Jason Evers is gone. It is a sad story of a baby being murdered. But whoever this sick shit is that has pretended to be Jason Evers for the past decade – well good riddance. Might you enjoy being dicked around in prison as much as you enjoyed dicking the city of Bend’s bars around for the past couple of years.

Most children by the age of ten can recite a chilling version of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow or another outlandish ghost tale. At summer camp they sit around late at night terrifying one another by raising the anti each story. But the child that terrorizes like no other is always the child of an Oregon bartender. No other child has experienced the true-life horrors of the creature many simply refer to as Olcc. Stories of their pappies disappearing in the middle of the night because daddy’s server permit was at home instead of tattooed on his upper right shoulder and tales of mommy turning into an evil mummy because she told someone over the telephone that her place had happy hour on Fridays.
Most can’t believe these crazed stories. But others claim these tales are true, and some claim they must be true because they’ve heard about these rules and regulations and they’ve heard that if you break them – be petrified as you have no clue what is about to happen.
There are people who have seen this creature and they say they would never cross his path. They claim the creature once took a bartender mid-shift in deceit and then stuffed him into a black bag and threw him down a well. The bartender had no retaliation not knowing left from right or up from down so he soon relented and spent the rest of his days as a lifeless pithed bag of bones estranged from his family and loved ones.
Then there are others who have dared to knowingly cross the creature, defied his antics clueless that they were walking into an eternal trap of terror. The creature has no mercy. He thinks of the bartender as his toy, a plaything, and will torture him like a jungle cat plays with its prey until all that exists is a corpse with only a few shallow breaths. The only reason he doesn’t seal the deal is because something got caught in the trap and the writhing of fresh meat turned his attention from his floundering prey. But maybe, if we are lucky, good will defeat evil this ghost story season and this creature will be put to an end once and for all.

Jungle cat
2 ounces of Le Tourment absinthe
Drink enough so you either see a scary creature or that the scary creature doesn’t scare you anymore.