Wichita woman who crashed into house during police chase on 'COPS' gets probation

Mar. 30--A Wichita woman who crashed into a home during a police chase filmed by a television crew lied to officers, claiming she wasn't the driver when she was the only one caught running from the wreck.

When the shoe-less woman told a Wichita Police Department officer on "COPS" that the slide sandal in the driver's seat wasn't her size, the cop compared her story to that of a fairy-tale princess.

The TV show scene appeared in "COPS" season 32, episode 27, "You Got It Twisted," which first aired March 23 on the Paramount Network. A clip of the scene, called "Can I Crash At Your House?," was shared to the show's website and Facebook page. It features WPD Officer Steven McKenna.

"We've got an issue with some fictitious 60-day tags and I noticed one on a vehicle and I ran it," McKenna said. "And when I got a return on it, it came back to me as a stolen license plate."

The officer turned on his lights and sirens for a traffic stop, but the suspect vehicle made a U-turn in a yard. The tires on the SUV squealed as it sped away north on Hydraulic.

"The driver then gunned it and wasn't going to stop," McKenna said.

The vehicle ran past several stop signs, drove south into an alley, turned onto a street and almost crashed into a car.

The pursuit reached speeds of 50 mph with little traffic before the driver crashed into a house on Boston Street near Harry and Hydraulic. The driver started to run away, but surrendered after officers threatened to use a Taser on her.

"I didn't do anything wrong," the driver claimed as she was handcuffed. "Please stop. Please. Officer, it wasn't me. I was in the passenger seat."

The officer told her that witnesses saw no one else run from the vehicle. She said the driver bailed from the vehicle before it hit the house.

"It's funny to me there's black flip flops laying on the floorboard of that car and you're not wearing any shoes," the officer said.

"I bet you they're not my size," she replied from the back of the patrol car.

"Well, we're not going to play Cinderella today," the cop said.

The woman also provided officers a fake name and birthday. Once officers determined her real identity, she admitted she was the driver and that she fled because she had a misdemeanor warrant. Her actions led to a felony arrest.

Wichita police case records and Sedgwick County Jail booking reports show McKenna arrested Kiley Mechelle Jordan, 22, on Aug. 28 in the 1300 block of East Boston after a police chase and hit-and-run wreck. The chase started at around 9:46 p.m. in the 1100 block of South Hydraulic, which is about three-quarters of a mile away from where it ended.

Jordan was arrested on suspicion of felony flee and elude, interference with law enforcement, no proof of insurance, driving on a suspended or revoked license, duty of driver to report damaging an unattended vehicle, unsafe turning, four counts of disobeying a traffic control device, probation violation and two counts of felony theft. She was charged in Sedgwick County District Court with fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer and driving while her license was suspended or revoked.

Jordan, now 23, pleaded guilty in December to felony flee elude and was sentenced in January by Judge Kevin Smith to a year of probation with an underlying sentence of one year in prison. She also owes $548 in various court costs.

Jordan was arrested again in February after a supervision officer told a judge that she had violated the terms of her probation five times in a month, including twice admitting to the use of methamphetamine. A district court judge on March 17 extended her probation for 18 months due to the violations.

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