A 33-year-old Greenwich woman was intoxicated when the car she was driving collided with a telephone pole at the Noroton Heights Railroad Station at about 1:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 13, Darien police said. Police did not report any injuries.
Police said they found an open bottle of tequila, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the car.
Photo from Darien P.D.
This Darien P.D. arrest photo of Alexis Jordan was taken in 2015, when she was 22 and charged in a burglary. Police said no photo is available in her recent Darien arrest.
The driver, Alexis V. Jordan, had been arrested in Darien nine years ago, when she participated in a burglary that police termed a home invasion, according to a January 2014 police post on Facebook.
A home invasion charge was later dropped in a plea agreement, and she was sentenced to eight years in prison that June, the Stamford Advocate reported.
Police gave this further account of the Aug. 13 incident:
The accident significantly damaged the 2008 Kia Spectra driven by Jordan, whose speech was slurred when she spoke to police. Jordan didn’t adequately complete standard field sobriety tests and was charged with driving while under the influence.
Her blood alcohol levels were tested twice, with results of 0.1539 and 0.1568, over twice the legal limit of 0.08 for an adult driver. Jordan, a resident of Byram Road in Greenwich, was later released on a $50 bond. She is scheduled to appear Sept. 6 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
In originally announcing the 2015 incident, police said:
A 68-year-old Priscilla Road woman was in her bedroom when she encountered Jordan. Jordan threw a wooden box at the head of the victim, giving her a minor injury which didn’t require treatment.
The victim called police at 2:55 p.m. and was able to describe the vehicle that Jordan and an accomplice drove away in, and police spotted it going southbound on Hollow Tree Ridge Road, where they stopped it and arrested Jordan, then 22, and the driver, 25-year-old Michael Appuzzo, who lived with Jordan in Hamden. Each of them were initially held on $250,000 bonds.
The Stamford Advocate later reported that Jordan pleaded guilty to first- and third-degree burglary in a plea agreement that resulted in charges of home invasion being dropped. The victim said she didn’t want Jordan to face too much time in prison.
At some point in 2015 before Jordan was sentenced and while she was in the courthouse lockup, she was charged with hindering prosecution. In that case, Jordan was accused of helping another defendant taint a DNA test by spitting in the woman’s mouth.