Navajo County election official charged with pulling gun, lying to police in road-rage incident
A Navajo County grand jury has indicted the county’s recorder, Timothy Jordan, on three criminal charges in connection with a road rage incident just before the November election.
The Feb. 11 indictment accuses Jordan of disorderly conduct with a weapon, a felony charge, as well as two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct and false reporting to a law enforcement agency. Votebeat exclusively requested and obtained the indictment.
Jordan, a Republican, defeated the Democratic incumbent, Michael Sample, in the Nov. 5 election. As recorder, Jordan controls voter registration and early voting in the northern Arizona county. State law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from holding public office.
The Navajo County Attorney’s Office initially transferred the case to Coconino County to prosecute because Jordan is now an elected official, according to a spokesperson for the office. But Coconino prosecutors then presented evidence of the alleged offenses to a Navajo County grand jury, according to the Coconino County attorney, because a criminal case must be heard by a grand jury in the jurisdiction where the offense occurred.
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