By Cristóbal Reyes
Orlando Sentinel
MAITLAND, Fla. — Maitland police officers seemed perplexed as they approached a blue Lamborghini hanging from a rail on a set of train tracks, its front wheels jammed in a mound of rocks early Tuesday.
At 1:14 a.m., the car was found stuck on the southbound tracks just feet north of Greenwood Drive. Inside, the officers found Marcus Jordan, 34, behind the wheel and a woman in the passenger seat. Body-worn camera video of the encounter began with them trying to convince Jordan, the 34-year-old son of NBA legend Michael Jordan, to get out of the car as a train was 10 minutes away from the scene.
By the end of the night, Jordan would be jailed, charged with cocaine possession and resisting arrest along with a citation for driving under the influence.
“You know the train’s coming by right now, right?” one officer is heard saying on the video. “Your car ain’t going nowhere, you’re stuck on the track.”
Jordan was unmoved and at one point tried revving the accelerator to free the car only for the front wheels to spin in place. “There’s four of us, guys. We can push this mother——,” he said.
But he grew belligerent as officers began to question him, noting a smell of alcohol on his breath and checking his pockets while they waited for a tow truck to arrive. Jordan name-dropped his famous father during the initial stop, telling them that he was stuck on the tracks by mistake.
“I’m Marcus Jordan, I’m Michael Jordan’s son. I’m not doing anything wrong,” he’s heard saying on the video. “I’m just trying to get home and I made a wrong turn.”
Jordan’s attitude quickly escalated, especially once he was handcuffed after apparently failing sobriety tests ordered by the officers. During a second search, an officer can be seen on video pulling a baggie from Jordan’s pants with a white powder that, according to an arrest affidavit, tested presumptive positive for cocaine.
He complained about how aggressively he was being patted down and had a few choice remarks previously unreported until the video’s release.
“You wanna see my —-? You wanna check under my —–, too?” Jordan said during the search. “… It ain’t —-. It’s just a big —- and some big —–.”
Authorities hinted at the expletive-laden rant in records filed in Orange County court Wednesday. Jordan’s DUI citation described him as having a “sarcastic, patronizing attitude” toward arresting officers when he arrived at the testing center near the Orange County Jail .
Records show he twice refused to take a breath test and his blood alcohol level is not clear.
Jordan, who was on his way home from Rachel’s North Men’s Club and Steakhouse in Casselberry at the time of his arrest, owns a store called The Trophy Room, a retail boutique that pays homage to his father while replicating the real-life trophy room of the Jordan family residence.
Before going into business, Jordan played as a guard for the UCF basketball program beginning in the 2009-2010 season. He played three seasons alongside his brother Jeff Jordan before leaving the team in August 2012, scoring a career total of 1,182 points.
He remained a UCF student after his final season with the team and graduated in 2013.
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