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New details on the arrest of Marcus Jordan, the son of Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, have been released.
Jordan, 34, reportedly got his Lamborghini SUV stuck on railroad tracks and told authorities "he had taken a wrong turn and needed help getting his car off the tracks at around 1:00 a.m. in Maitland, Florida, TMZ reported on Tuesday (February 4). Officers noticed bumper damage and rocks had been kicked up, which they resumed signified that "he had been trying to get away from the area, but he couldn't."
Police said Jordan's eyes appeared to be glassy and bloodshot and his speech was slurred while emitting "a strong odor of alcohol" during questioning, the report states. The basketball legend's son was previously charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing justice for an incident in which he was accused of having a drunken argument with two women outside a hotel in Omaha in 2012, which he later plend no contest to disturbing the peace and paid a fine of $250, along with additional court costs.
Jordan recently made headlines for his past relationship with Larsa Pippen, 50, the ex-wife of his father's longtime Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen, which played out on the reality TV series The Real Housewives of Miami and ended last year.
Jordan and Pippen, announced their engagement in August 2023 after going public with their relationship earlier in the year and initially being spotted together in October 2022. Larsa married Scottie Pippen in 1997 when he and Michael Jordan won their fifth of six NBA championships as arguably basketball's greatest duo in history, at which point Marcus was just 7 years old.
Marcus played college basketball for the University of Central Florida Golden Knights and was a Second-team Conference USA selection in 2011 and a Conference USA All-Freshman Team member in 2010. The Chicago native previously opened a high-end sneaker store named 'Trophy Room' in May 2016 in the Disney Springs area of the Walt Disney World Resort, which later closed and converted to an online-only business just three years later.
