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WEST VALLEY CITY — A former Army recruiter in Cedar City who is a registered sex offender convicted of trying to arrange sex with a minor has been arrested, again.
Jason Everette Livermore, 36, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Tuesday for investigation of five counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a 16-year-old, violating the sex offender registry and dealing in harmful materials to a minor.
In 2018, Livermore was one of several men arrested during a multiagency operation in southern Utah battling child sex crimes. He was initially charged in 5th District Court with two counts of criminal solicitation, a first-degree felony, and enticing a minor, a second-degree felony.
Those charges were later dismissed in lieu of federal charges being filed. Livermore was convicted in federal court of "interstate facility to transport information about a minor," which is described in court documents as to "knowingly initiate the transmission of the name or electronic mail address of another individual, knowing that such other individual has not attained the age of 16 years, with the intent to entice, encourage, offer, or solicit any person to engage in sexual activity."
Livermore was ordered to serve five years in federal prison followed by supervised release. According to court documents filed in February after his release, Livermore violated the conditions of his supervised release when he "failed to attend and participate in sex-offender treatment" on several occasions in 2023, and had an unsupervised visit with a person under the age of 18 in August of 2023.
West Valley police began investigating Livermore in April when a woman reported she had found text messages between Livermore and a 16-year-old girl that were sexual in nature, according to a police booking affidavit filed with his arrest on Tuesday.
"While in his phone, she started going through it and found his Text Now app. (The woman) opened it and found multiple text threads where he was asking women for sex and asking to meet up to have sex," the affidavit states, adding that one of the chats was with a 16-year-old girl.
"In the chats, the juvenile calls Jason 'daddy' and he calls her his 'daughter.' The messages slowly escalated to where they were both speaking of the sexual encounters and sexual acts they did together," the affidavit alleges.
Police served a search warrant for the phone number and interviewed the 16-year-old girl, who admitted to police "she had been meeting up with Jason multiple times to have sex," according to the affidavit. Livermore was then questioned by police and allegedly confessed to having sex with the teen on multiple occasions.
"Jason is currently on federal probation and is subject to the sex offender registry. Jason did not register his Text Now number he was using during this time," police wrote.
