Michael Jordan’s son faces DUI and cocaine charges in Florida

 

Marcus Jordan, son of basketball legend Michael Jordan and a frequent figure on reality television, was arrested after, authorities said, he was out drinking at a Florida strip club before his car got stuck on railroad tracks early Tuesday.

Jordan, 34, who last played competitive basketball at the University of Central Florida in 2012, was booked on suspicion of DUI, drug possession and resisting arrest.

Maitland police officers came upon a blue Lamborghini stuck in railroad tracks near Greenwood Drive and Mechanic Street at about 1:14 a.m., according to an affidavit supporting Jordan’s arrest.

 

The officers were told that the carhad fled from an attempted traffic stopby Seminole County sheriff’s deputies minutes earlier, the court document said.

“I stood at the window and immediately detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the vehicle,” an arresting officer wrote in the affidavit. “The defendant kept saying he made a wrong turn and needed assistance getting his vehicle off the railroad tracks. I noticed the driver had slurred speech and he was confused where he was located. I noticed the driver had red bloodshot and glassy eyes.”

Body camera video from the interaction shows two officers walking toward the car and coming upon Jordan and a woman in the passenger seat. The car is sitting parallel to the train tracks, with at least the two passenger side tires off the track and buried in the gravel below.

“You know trains come by right now, right?” one officer says, to which Jordan replies that that’s the reason they want to get the car off the tracks. The officer then asks the pair to get out of the vehicle because a train is coming in less than five minutes.

Jordan instead appears to try accelerating, but the vehicle doesn’t move. Finally, the officer orders the pair to exit the vehicle, saying: “There’s a train coming. I don’t want to see you guys get hit, bro.”

Other officers arrive, with Jordan insisting they try to push the car out and police telling him that it’s not possible. One officer tells him that he’s concerned for everyone on the track, with Jordan replying, “I mean, the concern is this $300,000 vehicle.”

Jordan continues insisting that they use “manpower” to move the vehicle, until an officer tells him that he is not allowing him back behind the wheel.

The officers begin searching Jordan. “I’m Marcus Jordan. I’m Michael Jordan’s son. I’m not doing anything wrong,” he says in the video, insisting that he “made a wrong turn” onto the tracks.

Despite Jordan insisting they attempt to push the car off the tracks, an officer tells him he won’t be allowed back behind the wheel because Jordan smells of alcohol and is on the train tracks to begin with.

“You’re way down the train tracks,” the officer says, insisting that they need to get off the tracks for everyone’s safety.

Police eventually usher Jordan and his companion away from the tracks.

Jordan, who has made several appearances on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Miami” and was featured on Peacock’s “The Traitors,” latertold police 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,” according to the affidavit.

The officers also found a “plastic baggie with a white powdery substance inside” the “right pocket of his pants,” before field tests showed it to be cocaine, officials said.

Jordan, who is 6-foot-3, was not cooperative during the arrest and tried to extend his legs in the back of the squad guard to keep officers from closing the door, officials said.

Police eventually “transported the Defendant to the Orange County DUI Center” and “on “the way to the center, my patrol vehicle began smelling strongly like an alcoholic beverage in which it did not smell that way prior to the defendant being in the vehicle.”

“The Defendant was singing the entire way to the DUI Center and his speech was slurred,” according to the affidavit.

Jordan bailed out at midday and didn’t speak to reporters outside jail before he was driven away.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had hired or been assigned a criminal defense lawyer to speak on his behalf. A representative for Michael Jordan could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

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NBC News