Jason Matthew Escalante is a Hispanic man from Illinois, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He hails from Braidwood, Will County, Illinois.
2. He likes art, astrology, backpacking, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and calligraphy.
3. He is 5’10” tall. His registered weight is 150 pounds.
4. He went to Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood but left in 2012.
5. In January 2016, he was released from prison. He had been sentenced to four years and nine months for burglary.
6. From September 2016 through January 2017, he sexually abused a Braidwood girl, then 15, while he was a parolee. They met through Facebook.
7. On March 15, 2017, Braidwood Police Department officers arrested him at Goodrich Park in Braidwood while he was in his car with a girl, then 17. He was charged with violating the terms of his supervised release, exploitation of a child and three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
8. In 2018, he agreed to plead guilty to failure to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to two years in prison.
9. In 2021, he pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to register as a sex offender. He received a two-year sentence.
10. On December 10, 2022, he obtained his license to cut as a barber stylist.
11. On May 5, 2023, he was present in a school bus used by the Braidwood Elementary School for a field trip, trying to serve as a field trip chaperone. He was a last minute substitution for his fiancé who called in sick. A parent on the bus who is in law enforcement recognized him as being on the sex offender registry and contacted the school. Braidwood Police Department officers arrested him. He was booked into the Will County Jail in Joliet, Will County and charged with two counts of unlawful presence within a school zone.
12. On May 9, 2023, he was charged with two counts of unlawful presence of a sex offender in a school zone. A Will County judge set his bond at $10,000 (
13. He was 28 years old when he was released on May 13, 2023 from Will County Jail after posting$10,000 bail..