On Friday, June 20, local veterinarian Dr. Susan Sterling swore out a warrant on Joey Jordan for a vehicular assault that allegedly occurred on Thursday afternoon around 4 p.m.
According to Dr. Sterling, Jordan, who was the lessee of Sterling’s rental property at 601 Maryville Hwy and had been evicted since May 19, came back to the property and began illegally removing materials that afternoon. Sterling, who had stood in front of Jordan’s RV to prevent him from leaving the premises with the materials before the police could arrive, was according to reports pushed down Highway 411 by the vehicle a distance of approximately one and a half blocks, stopping traffic on the heavily traveled road.
Sterling, who began standing in front of the vehicle while she was still on her own property, was uninjured aside from a sore back and stiff legs from trying to stay in front of the vehicle to prevent Jordan from leaving, and to avoid being run over by the RV. Several other motorists who were witnesses to the event stopped on 411 and tried to intervene by pounding on the side of the RV and demanding that Jordan stop the vehicle, which was described as a white Winnebago with orange stripes and showing Florida plates.
Jordan was evicted for failure to pay his rent. Dr. Sterling has a judgment against Jordan in excess of $5000 for back rent issued in General Sessions court. As per her rights as the landlord, she impounded the property on the premises. The property itself was not suitable for resale to recover the back rent, as it was seriously roach infested, and was rejected for resale by the operators of the dump behind Floyd’s on Chapman Highway.
No one had been inside the brick house for over one week, Dr. Sterling told The Herald, and the time was well past the eviction date when Jordan returned that afternoon.
“That was one of the stupider things I’ve done in my life, but I had had enough. The man had strung me along for almost six months about how he was going to pay the rent and how he was trying to care for his children. I was trying to be nice to him and this is what I get for it,” Dr. Sterling told The Herald.
Police are asking for eyewitnesses to the incident or people who are aware of the whereabouts of Joey Jordan. If you have information that may help to resolve the case, you are urged to call the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department at 453-4668.
“I sure hope whoever he’s renting from now has a very effective exterminator, because he probably took a couple hundred thousand roaches with him in his belongings,” Dr. Sterling stated.

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