'Serial Drunk Driver' In Fatal Suffolk Crash Gets 12.5 to 25 Years In Prison

RIVERSIDE, NY — A Bellport man, who Suffolk prosecutors say is a serial drunk driver, was sentenced to 12.5 to 25 years in prison on Friday for aggravated vehicular homicide, after he sped away from police and slammed into another car, killing the driver back in 2020.

Jordan Randolph, 43, was out drinking for hours in Islandia, as well as at a friend’s home in Mastic, and later that night, "while extremely intoxicated," he drove a 2014 Cadillac ATS southbound on the William Floyd Parkway and it swerved into the opposite lanes of traffic at the intersection of William Floyd Parkway and Rose Executive Boulevard, near the 7th Precinct in Shirley, according to prosecutors

A police officer, who was pulling out of the precinct, saw Randolph reverse and then drive in the southbound lanes of the parkway, prosecutors said, adding, the officer followed him and tried to pull him over, but Randolph refused to stop and kept driving.

Randolph then made a U-turn at the intersection of the parkway and Dawn Drive, and then sped away, according to prosecutors.

As he continued northbound on the parkway, Randolph smashed into a 2015 Ford Escape driven by 27-year-old Hampton Bays resident Johnathan Flores-Maldonado, causing the SUV to turn over onto its roof and was thrust down the road over 500 feet, prosecutors said.

Flores-Maldonado died from the blunt-force impact injuries he sustained from the crash, according to prosecutors.

Randolph struggled with responding officers as they tried to place him under arrest, and hurled profanities at emergency medical services workers who were trying to treat him, prosecutors said.

Randolph subsequently refused to submit to a blood test, but a court order was secured by law enforcement compelling him to provide a blood sample five hours after the crash and it showed his blood alcohol concentration was a .20 percent, which is over double the legal limit, according to prosecutors.

A search warrant was also obtained for blood that Randolph provided at Long Island Community Hospital around two hours after the crash, and it showed his blood alcohol concentration was .23 percent – almost triple the legal limit, prosecutors said.

A search of the event data recorder in his vehicle revealed that he was traveling 137 mph seconds before crashing into Flores-Maldonaldo's SUV, which was at 45 mph, according to prosecutors.

District Attorney Ray Tierney said, Randolph is a "serial drunk driver who had no regard for anyone’s life, including his own."

“The fact that he was able to be out on the street with a pending charge for not using a court-mandated ignition interlock device before driving is beyond comprehensible," he said. "The entire purpose of an ignition interlock device is to keep drunk drivers off the road. I hope this lengthy prison sentence provides the victim’s family with some measure of justice after such a senseless and avoidable crime.”

Randolph was convicted in February of multiple charges, including aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter, and second-degree assault.

At the time of the crash, Randolph while he had a pending Nassau County misdemeanor charge of circumvention of an ignition interlock device. The device can be imposed after a driving while intoxicated conviction and requires a motorist to blow into an instrument to determine if they have been drinking.

Randolph has a lengthy criminal history that includes 12 prior criminal convictions, six of which are felonies, and multiple prior felony and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated convictions.

He was convicted of felony driving while intoxicated in both 2016 and 2018, and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated in 2011.

Additionally, in 2003, he was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison for felony criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds. He also has prior convictions for felony assault from 1998, and attempted robbery from 1997.

Patch has reached out to his attorney, Joseph Hansche of Sayville, for comment.