According to officials, Marcus Jordan, the son of basketball legend Michael Jordan and a regular appearance on reality television, was detained early Tuesday after getting his car trapped on train lines while he was partying at a strip club in Florida.
Jordan, 34, 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 document, the officers were informed that the carhad reportedly escaped from a traffic stop that Seminole County sheriff’s officials had attempted just minutes before.
According to an arresting officer’s affidavit, “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 getting his car off the railroad tracks after making a false turn. I saw that the driver was unsure of his whereabouts and spoke incoherently. The driver had watery eyes and crimson bloodshots, I saw.
Jordan and a lady are seen in the passenger seat of the car as two cops approach it on body camera footage captured during the encounter. With at least the two passenger-side tires off the track and embedded in the gravel below, the vehicle is parked parallel to the railroad rails.
“Are you aware that trains are passing by at this moment? “That’s why they want to get the car off the tracks,” one cop says, to which Jordan responds. A train is approaching in less than five minutes, so the officer then requests that the two exit the car.
Instead, Jordan seems to attempt accelerating, but the car remains motionless. At last, the officer says, “There’s a train coming,” and tells the two to get out of the car. “Dude, I don’t want to watch you guys get hit.”
Jordan insists that they try to push the car out when more officers come, but the police tell him that’s not possible. Jordan responds, “I mean, the concern is this $300,000 vehicle,” when one of the officers expresses concern for everyone on the track.
Jordan keeps insisting that they move the car using “manpower” until an officer informs him that he will not be letting him drive again.
Jordan is searched by the authorities. My name is Marcus Jordan. I am the son of Michael Jordan. In the footage, he claims that he “made a wrong turn” onto the rails and states, “I’m not doing anything wrong.”
An officer informs Jordan that he will not be permitted to drive again since he smells of alcohol and was on the train tracks in the first place, even though Jordan insists they try to push the car off the tracks.
The officer demands that they leave the tracks for everyone’s safety, saying, “You’re way down the train tracks.”
Jordan and his partner are eventually escorted away from the tracks by the police.
According to the affidavit, Jordan, who has appeared on Peacock’s “The Traitors” and Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Miami,” later 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, Jordan, who is 6′ 3″, was uncooperative during the arrest and attempted to stretch his legs in the rear of the squad car to prevent officers 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,”
Jordan was driven away after he bailed out around noon without speaking to media outside the jail.
Whether he had been appointed or retained a criminal defense attorney to represent him was not immediately apparent. On Tuesday, a Michael Jordan spokesman was not immediately available for comment.