Theft dates to November 2025
A 16-year-old Sarasota resident is facing a felony charge of burglary of an occupied dwelling following Sarasota Police Department officers’ recovery of a stolen vehicle on Oct. 14 and the teen’s efforts to elude officers, the agency has announced.
Kimoni Felix Jordan, of 2716 20th St., also formally is facing charges of Grand Theft of a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm by a Minor, a 12th Judicial Circuit document shows.
A court document dated Oct. 31 says that Jordan was ordered to be held on a total of $3,000 bond in the firearm case and a total of $1,000 in the burglary case, which included a count of resisting an officer without violence, The Sarasota News Leader learned.
On Oct 29, a Circuit Court judge had ordered that Jordan be transported from the Juvenile Detention Center to the Sarasota County Jail no later than Nov. 4, where Jordan was to be housed in the Juvenile Section, News Leader read.
Further, Jordan has entered a plea of “Not Guilty” in the firearm case, court records note.
About 11 p.m. on Oct. 13, a Police Department news release explains, officers responded to a call of a vehicle stolen from the area of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Lemon Avenue in Sarasota. When the officers attempted a traffic stop of that vehicle, the release continues, the driver “took off from officers,” and the vehicle later was “found in a ditch on Lemon Avenue with no one inside.”
Then the release notes, “Officers established a perimeter and deployed a drone to find any suspects” and spotted one person running southbound across Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Leon Avenue and Orange Avenue, the release points out.
“The suspect ran toward the Janie’s Gardens apartment complex,” it adds, where he was “seen trying to kick in doors to apartments” that had people inside them. “The suspect, who was identified as Jordan, continued to run from officers and jumped from an opening on the second floor to the ground, where officers arrested him,” the release says.
Janie’s Garden is located at 2350 Central Ave. in Sarasota, its website notes.
“The case remains under investigation,” the release points out. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Crime Stoppers of Sarasota County at 941-366-TIPS (8477).
Details of the Probable Cause Affidavits
Jordan’s Probable Cause Affidavit in the firearm case explains that a Venice resident, Jeffrey Davis, called the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office’s Communications Center on Dec. 14, 2025 and asked to speak with deputies about the theft of his .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver, which was valued at $1,000.
Davis reported that he had hired Felix Jordan “to install ceiling beams in his house.” Afterward, on Nov. 29, 2025, the affidavit continues, Felix Jordan brought his son, Kimoni, with him to Davis’ home. “Around noon,” it says, Felix left Kimoni unsupervised in the residence while he went to Home Depot to purchase additional supplies.”
Then, about two weeks later — on Dec. 14, 2025 — Davis “received a text message from Felix,” which asked Davis to call him when he could. When Davis contacted Felix Jordan, the affidavit adds, “Felix told him he believed [that Kimoni] stole a firearm from [Davis’] residence.” Upon checking his gun case, which was in a closet, the affidavit continues, Davis discovered that the firearm was missing.
Then Davis told deputies that Felix Jordan returned the stolen firearm to him about 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 14 — an event that “was captured on [a] Ring doorbell camera.” The firearm was “wrapped up in a cloth,” it notes. Felix apologized to Davis for the incident, the affidavit also points out.
Both the firearm and its case were submitted to the Sheriff’s Office as evidence, the affidavit says. Crime Scene Unit processing found only one fingerprint on the case, the affidavit adds. The Forensic Identification Unit was able to identify the fingerprint as belonging to Kimoni Jordan, the affidavit notes.
When a Sheriff’s Office detective contacted Felix Jordan by phone, the affidavit continues, Felix “confirmed the information provided by [Davis] and further explained he was alerted to the stolen firearm by his other son …” It also points out that Felix told the detective that he “later collected the firearm from Kimoni’s residence,” where Kimoni was living with his mother.
Felix’s other son told the detective that Kimoni had shown him the firearm “before he packed it away to take with him” to his mother’s house, the affidavit adds. Kimoni told his brother that he took the firearm from a place where their father had been working, the affidavit says.
Then, when the detective contacted the mother, Nivea Lewis Jordan, the affidavit continues, she “denied any involvement in the incident and refused to allow Kimoni to speak [with the detective].”
Nonetheless, the detective wrote in the affidavit that probable cause existed to charge Kimoni Jordan with Grand Theft of Firearm and — since Jordan was younger than 18 — with a weapon offense related to his possession of the weapon at his age.
In regard to the Oct. 13 incident: That Probable Cause Affidavit says that after the driver of the stolen vehicle and Jordan fled from two other officers, a Police Department drone provided updates about Jordan’s “location in real time,” as Jordan continued to try to escape arrest.
One of the officers found him attempting to kick in the door of an apartment, with his back to the door. “His attempts to force entry into this dwelling were unsuccessful,” the officer adds in the affidavit.
Several children were with adults in that apartment, the affidavit indicates.
Officers later learned from security footage in the complex that Jordan had tried to open the doors of several other apartments, the affidavit says. Ring Security footage also showed Jordan “in the second story walkway crouching down, surreptitiously walking and hiding behind pillars while police were saturating … the parking lot,” the affidavit points out.
The officer who interrupted Jordan’s attempt to kick in the apartment door ordered Jordan to come to him, but Jordan “decided to climb out the window at the end of the hallway [and fell] to the ground.”
Jordan was injured, the affidavit notes. He was “detained by other officers who were on the ground level” and then transported to the hospital for treatment of his injuries, the affidavit continues.
As an officer was speaking with Jordan about the incident at the apartment complex, the affidavit notes, “Jordan made the spontaneous statement that he left his cell phone inside the stolen vehicle when he fled from it. He also spontaneously stated he was in the passenger seat of the vehicle,” the affidavit adds.
Another officer collected the cell phone, having found it where Jordan had reported it would be, the affidavit says.
The theft of the vehicle had been reported to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, the affidavit adds.
The affidavit offered no details about the person in the vehicle with Jordan.