New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan told WWL First News, "I didn't do anything wrong or improper." It comes amid reports that an armed robbery suspect fled a crime scene and went to Jordan's home.
Jordan says published reports indicating that he may have harbored a fugitive are completely wrong. "We would have certainly gotten the authorities over here immediately," Jordan said addressing concerns that he didn't call the cops when the suspect showed up on his doorstep on Lennox Blvd. in Algiers October 11th. "You can't harbor someone you don't know is involved in anything improper."
"That's a smear campaign," Jordan told WWL First News.
Listen to Jordan and his girlfriend talk with WWL's Bob Delgiorno and Monica Pierre:
Jordan's girlfriend says she knew the suspect, but Jordan says he had never met the man. Both say they had no idea he was allegedly involved in a crime.
Cherylynn Robinson told WWL First News that 20-year-old Elton Phillips had given her a ride home from Phillips' grandmother's house in Baton Rouge.
"I was in Baton Rouge helping the grandmother pack, because she is in the process of relocating back to New Orleans," Robsinson said. She told WWL First News that the grandmother couldn't take her home, " She said 'Well, I can't leave, but I'll have my grandson and my nephew bring you home.' "
After dropping Robinson off at Jordan's house, Phillips and his cousin allegedly went to a nearby gas station and committed an armed robbery.
Robinson says after that, Phillips came back to Jordan's house. She says he told her he was in a crash. Robinson says she told Phillips he should return to the scene of the crash and he left.
She says it wasn't until later she learned that Phillips had allegedly robbed a man at the gas station, that the robbery victim reportedly chased Phillips and his cousin and that the victim crashed his Hummer into Phillips' car.
Published reports indicate that Phillips may be a suspect in the shooting of a police officer on October 13th.
Jordan says he talked to Deputy Police Chief Marlon Defillo who told him that Phillips is not a suspect in that crime.
The veteran cop was held up in his driveway at his New Orleans East home. He says the suspects forced him inside where there was an exchange of bullets. The officer and his wife were injured.
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