An assistant solicitor normal for the Oklahoma Lawyer Basic’s Workplace was arrested in Damaged Arrow on Tuesday after a police pursuit following a hit-and-run collision. Two pedestrians, together with a police officer, have been hit by her automotive as she tried to get away, police stated.
Courtney Rae Jordan, 36, who the Lawyer Basic’s Workplace confirmed is employed there, was arrested, police stated, on two complaints of leaving the scene of an damage collision and one criticism every of “assault with a harmful weapon, felony eluding, leaving the scene of a property harm collision, and larceny from a dwelling,” the Damaged Arrow Police Division stated in a Fb submit.
In line with Jordan’s LinkedIn profile, she has been an assistant solicitor normal and tribal liaison for the Oklahoma Lawyer Basic’s Workplace since April and an adjunct professor “for the Masters of Jurisprudence in Indian Regulation” on the College of Tulsa since 2018. TU’s web site additionally lists Jordan as an adjunct professor within the School of Regulation.
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Her profile additionally says she was an assistant U.S. lawyer within the Jap District of Oklahoma for over three years from 2018 to 2022 and had been an assistant lawyer normal for the Cherokee Nation.
The Cherokee Nation Workplace of the Lawyer Basic confirmed on Thursday that Jordan served as an assistant lawyer normal from 2015 to 2020. Each Damaged Arrow police and Jordan’s LinkedIn profile point out that she is a Cherokee citizen, which can deliver tribal or federal jurisdiction into the legal case.
Damaged Arrow officers have been referred to as to a hit-and-run collision within the 400 block of North Pecan Avenue, simply west of the downtown Rose District, about 1 p.m. Tuesday. The license plate of the automobile concerned reportedly additionally was related to 2 tried burglaries that occurred about half-hour earlier than the collision, police stated within the Fb submit.
Officers situated the automobile close to the scene of the collision and initiated a site visitors cease, however the automobile, reportedly pushed by Jordan, hit a pedestrian and drove away, police stated.
The automobile drove by means of numerous companies’ parking heaps close to Aspen Avenue (145th East Avenue) and Kenosha (71st) Road earlier than stopping in a car parking zone.
“Ignoring officer instructions, the suspect rammed a patrol automotive inflicting the automobile to hit the officer behind it earlier than driving off once more,” police stated.
Jordan’s automobile then continued at “low speeds” by means of extra parking heaps after which headed south on Aspen Avenue, driving at increased speeds, in response to police.
As soon as at Elm Place (161st East Avenue) and Washington (91st) Road, police stated, Jordan’s automobile “collided with a number of autos.”
“The suspect once more tried to go away the scene earlier than crashing right into a privateness fence on Elm Pl. the place she was apprehended,” police stated.
Nobody injured within the numerous collisions had life-threatening accidents, police stated.
On Wednesday night time, the Oklahoma Lawyer Basic’s Workplace stated in a information launch that Jordan has been employed by that workplace for 3 months.
“Courtney Jordan is presently on administrative go away whereas our workplace gathers extra info,” stated Rachel Roberts, director of communications. “Lawyer Basic O’Connor is grateful nobody was severely damage and grateful to the Damaged Arrow Police Division for his or her response and dealing with of the scenario.”
Damaged Arrow Police on Thursday supplied no additional particulars associated to the preliminary two tried burglaries.
Messages left Thursday with representatives of the College of Tulsa and U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for Jap Oklahoma weren’t returned.