Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RICHARD JENKINS
Bessemer — An Odanah, Wis., man facing two Gogebic County drug charges was arraigned in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday.
Carlos Jordan, 30, pleaded not guilty to possession of methamphetamine and disorderly person-loitering near an illegal business.
The first charge is a felony, with a potential maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and/or $15,000, while the disorderly person charge is a misdemeanor, with a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.
Jordan’s bond was set at $5,000, 10 percent of which must be posted before he can be released. It had originally been set at $100,000.
Jordan is one of four defendants charged after the Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team, along with Drug Enforcement and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents, searched a house in the 1300 block of Bessemer’s Lead Street around 6 a.m. on Jan. 20.
The search turned up what authorities allege is 340 grams of meth, 194 grams of cocaine and 27 grams of heroin, according to the federal criminal complaint against the owner of the house, Jeremy James Whitebird.
After the search, a GIANT spokesperson estimated the street value of the drugs at more than $50,000.
Currency, firearms, marijuana and ammunition were also seized from the property.
Whitebird is the only one of the four facing federal charges. The other two defendants — Rebecca Jade Gibbons, 21, and Corey Allan Tutor, 34 — are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Gogebic County Circuit Court on state charges of possession of meth and disorderly person-loitering near an illegal business.
Jordan is next scheduled to appear in court March 21.
