Dec. 27—MORRISON — A man wanted in two separate Whiteside County cases is now in the county jail, charged in two additional cases after he was taken into custody Wednesday night in Sterling, according to a Sterling police report released Friday morning.
Jordan L. Kaye, 24, who is listed in court records as residing in Sterling and in police records as living in Rock Falls, was taken into custody shortly before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 block of West Third Street in Sterling. He was arrested on outstanding warrants in Whiteside County — one in connection with a Sept. 5 police chase and the other a Sept. 7 drug and weapons case — and a Rock Island County warrant charging him with possessing a stolen vehicle, meth and a firearm as a felon. The arrest warrant was obtained in October.
In addition, he was charged Friday morning with possessing a stolen 2012 Volkswagon Passat on Wednesday night, according to court records.
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He also was formally charged Friday morning in an unrelated case in which he is accused of possessing a stolen 2009 Chevy Silverado and leading police on a chase Tuesday night. Charges include two counts of felony aggravated fleeing or eluding a police officer; one count each of driving on a revoked license and speeding; and two counts of failing to stop at an intersection, namely at Avenue D and Fifth Street and Avenue D and Dixon Avenue, both in Rock Falls.
Charges in both of those cases come one day after he was formally charged in Whiteside County Circuit Court in connection with a Sept. 5 police chase. Court documents filed in that case indicate that a police officer tried to make a traffic stop on Kaye’s vehicle when Kaye, who police said was driving on a revoked license, fled in his car at speeds of at least 35 mph above the speed limit, and drove through two stops signs, one at Emerson and Galt roads and the other at Emerson Road and West Fourth Street in Sterling.
The Sept. 5 charges include two counts of felony aggravated fleeing or eluding a police officer, one count each of driving on a revoked license and speeding, and two counts of disobeying a traffic control device, according to a criminal complaint.
Kaye also was wanted in connection with a weapons and drug case in which he was formally charged Oct. 9 with two counts of possessing firearm ammunition as a felon, possession of methamphetamine, possession of heroin and driving on a revoked license, according to court documents. All offenses were alleged to have occurred Sept. 7.
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According to court documents in that case, the first count alleges that Kaye possessed one round of .380-caliber ammunition, which he was not allowed to possess because he had been convicted in Whiteside County in June 2020 of possessing a firearm as a felon. The second count accuses him of illegally possessing the ammunition as a felon because he was convicted of a forcible felony in 2020. Court documents indicate that the conviction was for one count of aggravated battery/great bodily harm.
The two counts are Class 2 felonies that carry potential prison sentences of three to 14 years upon conviction.
The third count, a Class 3 felony, accuses him of unlawful possession of less than 5 grams of meth. The remaining two charges allege that he possessed less than 15 grams of a substance containing heroin and that he was driving while his license was revoked. The heroin charge carries a possible fine of up to $25,000, while the driving on a revoked license charge carries a potential 30-day jail sentence. He was wanted for failing to appear for an Oct. 28 court date in that case.
Kaye also pleaded guilty in January 2023 to one count of possession of less than 5 grams of meth in a November 2022 case and was sentenced to four years in prison.
He is set to appear in court at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30.
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