Posted by Travis Uresk | Nov. 24th, 2022 | Aggravated Assault |
By Travis Uresk
11/24/22
Vernal, Ut- On Thursday, November 17th, 2022, VPD Officer White responded to a report of a suspected fight taking place inside an apartment. The complainant informed dispatch that the neighbors sounded like they were fighting next door and believed the man's name was Jordan but didn't know his last name.
Cpl. Currie, who also was responding to the call, requested a search for a protective order between the two individuals. The search returned and showed an active protective order between the suspected individuals involved.
When Officer White arrived on the scene, he heard a crashing sound coming from the apartment the complainant had described.
Sgt. Watt was also on the scene and knocked on the door. After a short verbal exchange through the door with one of the individuals inside the apartment, the door opened.
Once the Officers were inside the apartment, they saw a man lying on the floor near the couch. One of the Officers approached Jordan, and he rolled over onto his stomach and hid his hands underneath his body. Jordan tensed up his body so the Officers couldn't place him in handcuffs.
After a brief struggle with Jordan, the three Officers were able to gain control of his hands, and they placed them behind his back and put him in handcuffs.
Officer White asked Jordan what his last name was, and he said he wasn't going to tell him. He said again, "you have to tell me," Jordan stated, "I don't have to tell you, shit bro; I want an attorney." Sgt. Watt asked Jordan if he wanted to tell him his name so that he wouldn't get another charge, and Jordan said, "no."
While inside the apartment, Officer White noticed the bedroom door was broken off the wall, there were wooden chunks still connected to the hinges, and the door was lying on its side in the bedroom on the floor.
The female victim stated that the door was like that because Jordan threw her through it, causing the door to break. There was also a television inside the bedroom, which the victim stated Jordan had punched and broken.
The victim requested medical to be called, and Officer White radioed for an ambulance to respond to the apartment.
Officer White escorted Jordan to his patrol car, placed him in the backseat, and read him his Miranda Rights. Jordan chose not to answer any questions at the scene without having legal counsel present.
Sgt. Watt spoke to the victim, and she told him that Jordan had held her in a "police hold." She also said she was stabbing at him, and she had bitten him in the middle of the chest and scratched his face.
Jordan Wayne Myrick was transported to the Uintah County Jail, and the victim was transported to the hospital for further evaluation.
While at the jail Officer White saw a mouth-shaped mark on Jordan's chest and his right knee and scratches on his face.
Officer White then left the jail and met the victim at the hospital. She stated the altercation started when Jordan and his girlfriend began to engage in sexual intercourse in the victim's bed, and she asked them to stop and get out. Jordan asked her to join in, and the victim refused, and that's when Jordan and his girlfriend became angry.
The victim said she didn't know when his girlfriend left the apartment, all she knows "I got thrown through a door and was getting choked repeatedly."
While Officer White was talking to the victim, she stated that Jordan choked her four or five times during their fight. She described that Jordan would position his body over her, placing his knee on her collarbone and his shin on her chest. He would put both hands around her throat with his thumbs on both sides of her neck. She described that Jordan would push down onto her throat and squeeze it.
Offer White asked the victim if it cut off her airflow or blood flow while choking her, and she informed him it did. The victim said she had lost consciousness multiple times during the assault.
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