A judge has ruled a Villager can resume contact with an on-again off-again girlfriend while he remains free on bond following their spat earlier this year at Brownwood Paddock Square.
Gerald Francis Jordan, 64, who lives at 3816 Fir St. in the Village of Dunedin, had been arrested Feb. 23 on a charge of battery.
Jordan remains free on $1,000 bond and one of the conditions of his release was that he have no contact with the woman. Last month, a judge decided to change the conditions of Jordan’s bond after the woman indicated she does not fear Jordan and would like to have contact with him again. The judge granted a motion allowing non-violent contact between the pair, but stipulated that Jordan must not use or possess alcohol.
Jordan has been involved in an “intimate relationship” with a woman “on and off” for the past two years, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.
On the day of Jordan’s arrest, the woman told police she had arrived at the square with a “male friend” and they were near a drink hut when she spotted Jordan up in the bleachers. She waved at Jordan, encouraging him to come down from the bleachers so she could introduce him to her male friend. Jordan refused to come down so she walked up to him and tried to give him a kiss. Jordan swore at her and told her to go away. She started back down the bleachers. Jordan followed her down and an argument ensued over her male friend.
Jordan, who appeared to be intoxicated, put his hand behind her head as if he was pulling her toward him to kiss her. Instead, he spit in her right eye, the report said.
Jordan was handcuffed, placed in the back of a squad car and taken to the Sumter County Detention Center.
