Marcus Jordan, son of NBA superstar Michael Jordan, has been arrested on DUI and cocaine charges.
On Feb. 4, around 1 a.m., two officers from the Maitland Police Department were traveling on Greenwood Rd. when they found a blue Lamborghini SUV stopped on the railroad tracks near the Maitland Sun Rail station, too far to plausibly be at a rail road crossing. The officers parked their car and approached the vehicle while radioing dispatch, who informed them that a SunRail train would be arriving within ten minutes.
Upon approaching the car, officers found Marcus Jordan, 34, in the driver’s seat with an unidentified female passenger. Body camera footage provided by law enforce ment shows Jordan being decently friendly as the officers approach, but slightly resist ant as officers ask him and his passenger to exit the vehicle.
“Do you want to get hit by a train?” an offi cer asked, to which Jordan responded, “Do you think I wanna get hit by a train? No.”
After both passengers were ordered out of the vehicle, Jordan continued to insist that they push the vehicle off the train tracks using “manpower” while officers insisted on priori tizing human life and calling a tow truck instead - something Jordan repeatedly stated he did not want to do, insisting that he was “fine behind the wheel.”
“I’m Michael Jordan’s son, I didn’t do any thing wrong, and clearly we would just like to get the car off the railroad tracks,” he said.
The footage also shows Jordan being clearly unsteady on his feet as officers pat him down. As officers explain their concerns regarding his unsteadiness and slurred speech, Jordan explains that he and his passenger were com ing from “several venues” in Winter Park and Casselberry but continued to tell officers that he was not under the influence, despite his speech and glassy, bloodshot eyes saying oth erwise.
Officers asked Jordan to undergo several field sobriety exercises, the results of which have not been shared by law enforcement, but the official arrest reports state that he refused a breathalyzer test. Once the tests were com pleted, Jordan - who had been growing more and more irritable - was officially taken into police custody.
The footage provided shows Jordan becom ing increasingly resistant as he was led back to the police car and searched. Upon search ing him, officers found a bag of white powder in Jordan’s pocket which tested positive for cocaine.
Jordan refused to comply as he was placed in the backseat of the car. “Why am I being treated as if I’m a [bleeping] criminal?” he asked. “You’re disrespecting me.”
Officers were able to transport Jordan to the Orange County Jail without further incident, though they note that he was singing along to the radio the entire way there and the patrol car “smelled strongly like an alcoholic bever age”, according to the arrest report.
Jordan was officially arrested on charges of DUI crash with property damage, resisting an officer without violence, and third degree felony possession of cocaine. He was released on a $3,000 bond by noon of the same day.
The Maitland Police Department has declined any comment on the arrest.
