The 34-year-old son of NBA great Michael Jordan was arrested in central Florida on a misdemeanor drug charge after police officers found his car stuck on railroad tracks minutes before a commuter train was scheduled to pass. Marcus Jordan was charged on Tuesday with possession of cocaine, a second-degree misdemeanor, and resisting an officer without violence, also a misdemeanor, according to online court records. Jordan is a former University of Central Florida basketball player. He refused to talk to reporters when he was released Tuesday from the Orange County Jail.
By ZEKE MILLER, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press
A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges.The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before Biden left office on Monday, according to a Trump administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul said the two U.S. citizens had been exchanged for Khan Mohammed, who was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2008.
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Friday's clemency actions give Biden the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued. The Democrat says he is seeking to undo “disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.” Biden has said more could yet be coming. He has promised to use the time before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated Monday to “continue to review additional commutations and pardons.” That could potentially include preemptive pardons for officials and allies who the White House fears could be unjustly targeted by Trump’s administration.
An investigator fired from his job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again. This time he's charged with rape. Jason Krasley, a former police officer in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was arrested Friday and charged with felony rape and involuntary sexual servitude for crimes allegedly committed while Krasley was on the force between 2011 and 2015, according to a news release from the district attorney’s office. Krasley left the department in 2021 and went to work for the SafeSport Center, which fired him last year shortly after learning he’d been arrested for allegedly stealing from a drug bust.
