POCATELLO — Authorities received a number of calls about a woman standing in the middle of a high traffic road with her five-year-old son at 11:20 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5.
Pocatello Police Department officials said Jamie Jordan, 34, and her son were standing in the 300 block of Jefferson Ave. facing oncoming vehicles.
When officers arrived at Jefferson Ave., they tried to get the 34-year-old to come to the sidewalk, but she refused, and continued to block oncoming traffic.
“She was very confused and was not cooperative with the police department,” said police spokeswoman Dianne Brush.
Police took Jordan into custody. She was booked into the Bannock County Jail for for misdemeanor injury to a child and resisting and obstructing an officer.
Brush said Child Protective Services was already working an active case to remove the child from the Pocatello woman’s custody. Police asked Jordan if there were any family members who could take immediate custody of the child, to which she responded there were none.
The child was put into foster care until a family member capable of taking the child is located, Brush said.
Police said it was unclear why Jordan was in the road. A sobriety test was not conducted, because the suspect was not driving.
Officials at the Bannock County Jail said Jordan appeared in court on Monday, Sept. 7 and was released. Her next court date for her charge of injury to a child is scheduled for Thursday Oct. 8.
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