According to officials, Marcus Jordan, the son of basketball great Michael Jordan and a regular appearance on reality TV, was arrested early Tuesday after he allegedly got his car trapped on railroad lines after partying at a strip club in Florida.
The 34-year-old Jordan was arrested on allegations of DUI, drug possession, and resisting arrest. He last participated in competitive basketball at the University of Central Florida in 2012.
An affidavit supporting Jordan’s arrest states that at approximately 1:14 a.m., Maitland police officers discovered a blue Lamborghini trapped on railroad lines close to Greenwood Drive and Mechanic Street.
According to the court filing, the officers were informed that the vehicle had escaped from the deputies of the Seminole County Sheriff just minutes before.
One of the arresting officers noted in the statement, “I stood at the window and immediately detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the vehicle,” “The defendant insisted that he required help moving his car off the railroad tracks after making a mistake turn. I saw that the driver was unsure of his whereabouts and spoke incoherently. I saw that the driver’s eyes were blurry and had red bloodshots.
According to the affidavit, Jordan, who has appeared on Peacock’s “The Traitors” and Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Miami,” admitted to police that he had been drinking and was “coming from a few venues in Winter Park and Casselberry to include the last place he visited of Rachels Gentleman’s Club.”
Before field tests revealed it to be cocaine, the cops also discovered a “plastic baggie with a white powdery substance inside” the “right pocket of his pants,” according to officials.
According to officials, the 6-foot-3 Jordan was uncooperative during the arrest and attempted to stretch his legs in the rear of the squad car to prevent cops from shutting the door.
Eventually, police “transported the Defendant to the Orange County DUI Center,” and “my patrol vehicle started smelling strongly like an alcoholic beverage on the way to the center, which it did not smell like before the defendant was in the vehicle.”
According to the affidavit, “The Defendant was singing the entire way to the DUI Center and his speech was slurred,”
By late Tuesday morning, according to jail records, Jordan still seemed to be in custody.
Whether or not he had been assigned a criminal defense attorney to represent him was not immediately apparent. On Tuesday, a Michael Jordan spokesman was not immediately available for comment.