Alleged drunk driver released under bail reform after fatal Long Island crash
By Ruth Weissmann and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
New York Post
January 14, 2020
A Long Island man is outraged that a driver who allegedly killed his brother in a drunken crash was released without bail — and blames the state’s controversial new reform law.
Jordan Randolph, 40, was arrested about 4 a.m. Sunday after his 2014 Cadillac rear-ended a 2015 Ford, killing driver Jonathan Flores-Maldonado, 27, Suffolk County police said.
Randolph allegedly tried to flee but was arrested for driving while intoxicated, a felony, before being cut loose without bail Monday.
“This drunk driver Jordan Randolph killed my brother and is already free a day later because of this new bail reform,” the dead man’s brother, Mateo Mangusto Maldonado, said on social media.
Randolph has not been charged with Flores-Maldonado’s death.
The bail-reform law took effect Jan. 1 and prevents courts from setting bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies — including the felony DWI Randolph was hit with this week.
He has a dozen prior convictions, including three for DWI, two of them felonies, law-enforcement sources said.
His most recent bust was Jan. 1 in Suffolk for harassment, aggravated unlicensed operation and tampering with a court-ordered ignition interlock device.
That arrest violated Randolph’s parole on a Nassau County case. He was released by a judge but returned to court on Jan. 10.
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