A Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been charged in a shoplifting incident which occurred at a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart earlier this month, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday.
DFC Mark Jordan, a five-year veteran of the department, was charged Wednesday night with a summary offense of retail theft for taking two Cobra brand hand-held two-way radios and a Hewlett-Packard USB flash drive from the Shrewsbury, Pa. Wal-Mart on July 8, according to Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Adam Reed.
According to Reed, Jordan placed the items in his daughter’s backpack and walked out of the store with his daughter and son. The value of the items totaled $50.75, Reed said.
Under Pennsylvania law, retail theft constitutes a summary offense when an incident is a suspect’s first offense and the value of the items totals less than $150. A second offense for items under that price is a second-degree misdemeanor.
Jordan was suspended with pay on July 9, according to Harford County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Monica Worrell. He was hired by the Sheriff’s Office in October 2006 as a corrections officer, and transferred to law enforcement in October 2009, where he was assigned to the Police Services Bureau as a patrol deputy.
A citation against Jordan for the offense was filed in York County court Wednesday night, according to Reed. Jordan will be able to plead guilty and pay a first-offense fine between $100 and $250, Reed said, or plead not guilty and face a hearing before a local Magisterial District Judge.
Jordan is the second Sheriff’s Office member in two years to face a shoplifting charge. Major Mark Forwood, commander of the agency’s Investigative Services Division, was suspended with pay in April 2010 after he was caught shoplifting from a Home Depot store in Bel Air.
He remained suspended until Nov 2010, when he was charged with improper conduct and a theft scheme, and arrested on a second shoplifting charge later that month. Forwood was fired Nov. 30, 2010, and eventually pled guilty to the felony theft charge and the misdemeanor count of improper conduct, receiving a six-year sentence with all but 18 months suspended.
I guess with the swiftness of these charges there was no delaying favors being called in. Then again, its not election time.
Bet he keeps his job….like the others
Sounds like this deputy will make a fine background investigator. Putting items in your daughters backpack. I have no words for this cowardly act.
No room in the HCSO for anyone who steals…and that means anywhere in the HCSO!
does that mean that if you steal…YOUR FIRED. But if you commit other crimes….YOUR SAFE? Where is the litmus test? A lot of good police wear the uniform and never commit crimes, but the ones who do still keep their J.O.B.
No. It means that he should not be assigned as a background investigator or any other position within the HCSO, including the Detention Center which, according to the article, is where he started.
Sorry, you cant fire crappy cops or teachers, that whole union thing.
No they will make an example out of him and fire him. Plus he probably didn’t contribute to the Bane campaign so he wont have FOJ card rights. Shoplifting is not acceptable, either is lying, so that’s why I again say leadership issue. No leadership didn’t make this guy go steal, but leadership allows people who have lied to retain their jobs and even makes positions for them. So if you condone acts like this then you are a failure. Jesse Bane and his command staff are a FAILURE.
What does FOJ stand for???
Fourth of July also known as Independance day. Not to be confused with Independance Card Day which occurs on the 1st of the month.
Inbred, you can’t even give a decent response to someone who asks you a question. What is the matter with you?
If he’s common enough to put stolen items in his own daughters backpack, I can imagine what he could possible plant on people he pulls over…
Fire his sorry behind, he is not worthy to wear a badge.
@ SEGRAM99 what about the current people that have no integrity but are still in a position of public trust. People who work with them cant trust them, muchless the public which they are sworn to protect. This story would have been swept under the rug if it were not for the dagger. Good job Aaron!
I agree 100%. Hopefully in the spotlight cases such as this will bring attention to this type of behavoir. You have to rid the rotten from a bushel basket of apples one at a time or the whole basket will be ruined.
If there were two or three rotten apples I would get rid of them all at one time. Why wait for one at a time?
I think the main rotten apple that spoiled most of the others in the bushel should go first, with his worm-infested cronies close behind.
Where did you come up with that fact? Just another in your vast repetoire.
This is an accusation but if this Deputy did this then please do us all a favor and follow this one line poem: resign and pay the fine. This will save your fellow brothers and sisters from being drug through the mud with you. From the sounds of it who would want to work at a place will with this many issues.
I know you don’t want to hear it Monster and Porter, but more and more of this stuff is going to be emerging. It has all been kept behind closed doors before. Believe what you want, but the agency is in a downward spiral. And don’t start your electioneering bullcrap. This has nothing to do with Gahler or 2014, just a commentary on the current state of the agency with the hapless Bane at the helm.
Just don’t get sick they will fire you. But its ok to have an integrity issue. You really think that fellow deputies dont see what you did to a corporal from patrol. You really think that fellow deputies agree with your decision to terminate him for being sick. Keep up the good work Sheriff Bane.
Every agency eventually is going to have their trouble and have some people slip through. Yes this deputy is an idiot and should be fired, however the other working deputies who are truly doing their job should not be brought into this siutation. Every agency in this state has issues somewhere along the way and quite frankly Harford County isnt that high up on the list. They must be doing something right, due to Harford County being one of the safest counties in MD in reside in.
So, you say fire him, huh? What ever happened to innocent until FOUND guilty? This is ridiculous! If this were anyone else with a different job, you would hear nothing of it, their life would not be plastered up here for all of you “perfect people” to be so quick to judge.
It makes me so sick that many of you on here are so judgemental as if your slate is so clean that you can throw around your accusations and judgements!
And what are all of you, whom are without blemishes, going to do if the charges are thrown out and he is found not guilty? Do you think he should still lose his job if he is found not guilty in a court of law in PA? Remember this is PA we are talking about, so all of you with your political predijuices can’t blame Bane for the outcome of the ruling.
This just gets real old that only if you are law enforcement you are guilty until proven innocent with a mountain of evidence. This fails to apply teachers, firefighters, or even polititians. If he truely did this he needs to go, but give him his day in court just like everyone else before you crusify him.
DFC Frustrated- From day 1 in the academy they teach you are held to a higher standard. If a firefighter was accused of setting fires, if a teacher was accused of having a relationship with a student, or if a deputy was accused of shoplifting- they all owe it to their coworkers to resign and appologize if they did what they are accused of. Politicians are not held accountable no fault to me.
So I guess the deputy who committed 2nd degree assault by punching a stripper in the face because she wanted her money shouldn’t have been fired because it happened in Baltimore City. Oh wait a minute, he wasn’t fired. The case has been expunged from his record, you won’t find it anywhere on Md Judiciary case search so I guess it never happened. He is still working unlike the corporal who was fired because he was sick. It is twisted crap like this that is occurring and the good deputies are damn sick and tired of it. So you just go ahead and get sick of the judgmental deputies. It is your judgment that is off because apparently you think it’s ok for stuff like this to be happening. Typical Baner.
@ Really- Ok so If he did do this. Are you going to ask him to say thanks to all the other deputies who do their job without being stupid everyday, or give an apology. He will have suppport but if he did do this then he needs to step down. I have no respect for a criminal within. I would love to support him but if he did it, BYE BYE.
Bad decision. If you did this then resign. If not you become part of the Bane problems. Oh and by the way did a certain person who couldn’t testify anymore do this persons background investigation? Just wondering!
I cant believe what I am reading this has to be wrong. I thought better of the police in my community. I initially thought that people posting on here were acting like babies. Now I think they are telling the truth. Things have to change the public is losing their trust in you. We need you to keep our community safe. Whats going on?
Andrea: You should be concerned about what is happening within the agency. What is coming out here isn’t even half a percent of what is going on. Bane has his henchmen doing a good job of keeping it quiet, such as ordering deputies not to talk to the press.
Ms. Young, as is the case with the deputy charged for shoplifting, if proven so in a court of law, he needs to go. So do some of the belly achers on this site.
Last time I checked Walmart provides shopping carts for the customers convenience.
Backpacks too!
It is Walmart. The theft is recorded on camera.
How many billions does Wallmart take in each year? And they still have crappy cameras.
Bane should sign up for the show undercover boss. Then he will see how horrible it is to work for the patrol major that he promoted. Then again i’m not sure Bane himself could work for Bane.
Uncle Benny: Bane would fire everybody and there wouldn’t be a show!
Uncle Benny, I agree. Then he would also see bellyakers like you who find time to post all day. Do the job you are paid to do and stop complaining. There isn’t a person on this site that cannot complain about his/her job. If you can’t stand it, do what Marc Eaton did- retire and become an expert.
Monster, what is a BELL YACKER?
Probably meant bellyacher. I’m surprised this was misspelled by someone who was astute enough to crack the ‘well loved’ conspiracy.
Barbara, yeah, that’s your real name, a bell yaker is someone who yaks their bells off and a bellyacher is you (uncle benny Barbara Marc Eaton marc’8th cousin, five wood etc.) You are a real piece of work.
You’re funny.
I think any thief or criminal should be dogged on the internet, regardless of profession. But this has nothing to do with Sheriff Bane or any other members of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office. Not sure why anyone would come to that conclusion, much less the majority of commenters here.
Observant, thank you for your comment. The reason they say the stupid things is because it is a campaign technique being used against the sheriff. They have their personal reasons why they do this on every site. Uncle Benny’s ex blew his cover though. Read above if you already haven’t.
Observant, I am sorry. The posts that I wanted you to read were on the last site about a week ago. I have copied them for you.
Uncle Benny
4 days, 18 hrs ago
John Paff I agree with you 110%. Barbara there are four total law enforcement deputys currently suspended with pay. All seperate issues. One in particular has politics written all over it. You cant help stupidity, example: shoplifting. Makes all of us looks like idiots. My whole point is that a change in leadership is appropriate at this point. They say if it aint broke dont fix it, well its broke, fix it!
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Aunt Bonita (Benny’s Ex)
4 days, 18 hrs ago
Thank you for viewing. This has been another manufactured voluntary political response to support Mr Gahler for Harford County Sheriff.
Just quietly take your dixie cup filled with Koolaid to the corner and sip it’s refreshing contents.
If you allow one deputy to stay and continue to work in applicant investigation after an integrity issue until retirement. Then allow another to continue to work the streets after another integrity issue and they only have the loss one stripe. How can you charge and suspend another deputy with an alleged integrity violation? If you are willing to give passes to the first two, what are you going to do with the others? Did the third deputy pound signs for you or did they donate money to your campaign? This seems to be how decisions are based. The way you handle integrity issues seem to have been established from day one of the first term. If this is the case then Jordan should pay his fine and go back to work. Integrity does not seem to be an important issue for this Administration. Your punishment policy seems to be as flawed as your promotion policy.