Police: Cleveland EMT missing and endangered

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Cleveland police are asking for the neighborhood’s assist to discover a lacking girl who’s believed to be endangered.

Police say 30-year-old Lachelle Jordan was final seen Could 6 within the 11600 block of Fairport Avenue within the metropolis’s Glenville neighborhood.

Police confirmed Jordan is a metropolis EMT, and mentioned her disappearance is being thought of “suspicious”.

Cleveland EMS officers mentioned Jordan was employed in August of 2022 and was final seen whereas working her shift on Friday.

Jordan is 5 toes, 2 inches tall, and weighs 150 kilos with black hair and brown eyes.

Cleveland police spent Monday canvassing the Glenville neighborhood, going door to door, and handing out images of Lachelle Jordan. Everybody locally is hoping and praying she’ll flip up quickly.

“I hope they discover her,” mentioned her neighbor, Jamal.

“She’s employed by town of Cleveland attempting to go and save lives and right here she comes up lacking,” mentioned David Jones, a Cleveland neighborhood activist.

Police say Jordan was final seen carrying a blue and white East Cleveland Hearth Division sweatshirt with ECFD on the again and the division’s brand on the entrance, together with inexperienced and white tie-dye pants and rainbow-colored Crocs.

“She had been final seen on the night time of Could sixth,” mentioned Mark Barrett, President of the Cleveland EMS Union. “She went to her automobile to get one thing out of her automobile and by no means got here again inside, left all her garments, left all of her belongings. She has a twin sister that she didn’t notify. This definitely wasn’t deliberate. One thing occurred, she’s lacking.”

A member of the family confirmed to 19 Information Jordan is predicted to testify in a rape case involving 65-year-old Michael Stennett, indicted in 2022 on two counts of rape and one depend of abduction.

“I knew that there was a case occurring surrounding her that I don’t wish to get an excessive amount of into,” Barrett mentioned.

Court docket data present the incident occurred in August of 2021.

Cleveland Municipal Court docket data point out Stennett was arrested Monday after a warrant was issued for violation of a safety order whereas committing a felony, a third-degree felony, and menacing by stalking, a fourth-degree felony.

Barrett mentioned somebody had been stalking and threatening Jordan at work and it acquired so unhealthy that her supervisor took her out of the sector.

“Commissioner Wheeler and the security director moved her out of the sector and into headquarters, so she was in a protected location as a result of there have been points surrounding what was occurring to her on responsibility,” defined Barrett. “I don’t know if the person was coming to her scenes, or sending folks to her scenes, however there was a number of stories filed that there was one thing occurring whereas she was working that shouldn’t have been occurring.”

Cleveland police confirmed Stennett’s arrest and said: “There may be not data connecting him to this lacking individuals case presently.”

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley launched the next assertion relating to Jordan’s disappearance:

“Our focus proper now could be on discovering the sufferer and returning her safely residence. This case was scheduled for a last pretrial at this time, no trial date has been set. All additional questions must be directed to the Cleveland Division of Police.”

Anybody with data has been requested to name the Cleveland Division of Police at 216-621-1234 or 9-1-1.

This can be a growing story. Return to 19 Information for updates.

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