Man in look-alike case indicted in three crimes

Staff report

WARREN

Andrew T. Jordan, the man charged with an April 8 Willard Avenue break-in originally blamed on a downtown artist, has been indicted in the break-in, as well as two theft offenses.

A Trumbull County grand jury Tuesday indicted Jordan, 24, of Brier Street Southwest, on a charge of breaking and entering, as well as a March 21 burglary at a house on Woodbine Avenue Southeast and an Aug. 7, 2015, aggravated robbery at Edna’s Market in Bristolville.

Police say one reason artist Aaron Chine was falsely identified and charged is the close similarity in the appearance of the two men. One of the similarities is that they both wore their hair in a dreadlocks style. They are also about the same height.

Police arrested Chine, 36, of downtown Warren, after a witness to the Willard break-in told a police officer she saw Chine leaving the front of the vacant house.

Chine spent six days in the Trumbull County Jail, until a Warren police investigator viewed surveillance video from Chine’s tattoo shop that showed he could not have committed the offense because he was at his shop at the time.

Police did know about Jordan at the time, and the detective said he was not aware of any other man in the area who looked similar to Chine.

Police used DNA collected at the Woodbine burglary and the market robbery to connect Jordan to those two crimes. Police won’t discuss what evidence they have that connects Jordan to the Willard break-in except the nearly identical appearance of Chine and Jordan.