LARAMIE, Wyo.—A former Saline/Williamson County-area man is jailed on a high bond after another sexual assault allegation has been leveled against him.
Jordan Lee McGuire, 27, faces a fourth such allegation since 2007, this one in Laramie, Wyoming. The difference this time, however, is that there are witnesses, and DNA evidence is being processed…and as well, the bond holding McGuire in detention at Wyoming’s Albany County facility is so huge—$100,000 cash, as jail staff advised Disclosure on December 28—that even his well-to-do Illinois relatives might have trouble paying for both that and for his defense.
And McGuire is apparently going to need the latter.
McGuire, who was in graduate school at the University of Wyoming at the time of his arrest, is accused of raping a fellow student at an off-campus party on November 21.
This follows several such accusations of similar conduct in the area dating back to nearly eight years ago when McGuire, a native of Carterville, was 20 and was in school at Southeastern Illinois College in Harrisburg.
At that time, machinations by his high-end attorney (afforded by his grandparents), coupled by reluctance on the part of the alleged victim, all worked to get McGuire out of that situation relatively unscathed.
What McGuire went on to do, however, has prompted public concern; and the November incident, which resulted in charges Dec. 5, 2014, has caused hope that maybe, this time, McGuire can finally be stopped.
Blacked out, then assaulted
Court documents out of Albany County, Wyoming, outline McGuire’s actions on the evening of Nov. 21, 2014.
McGuire, who is a perpetual student of music and theatre (having traveled all over the world to be so, including a 2011 stint in Australia), began graduate studies at the university in the fall of 2014.
Another university student, identified only in court documents as “MB,” advised that he arrived at the party, being held at McGuire’s residence, “already feeling drunk.”
MB told authorities that McGuire handed him a “cherry-flavored vodka drink” from a punchbowl in McGuire’s kitchen and told MB it would “make him feel better.” However, instead, MB apparently had a bit too much, became sick, and actually “blacked out” for a period of time; he told investigating authorities that he didn’t know for how long the blackout period was.
When he came to, MB reported, he was “in a bathroom with Jordan McGuire…and McGuire was sexually assaulting him,” this while MB was kneeling over the toilet.
The man told authorities that when he awoke, his pants and underwear were pulled down to his knees; he didn’t remember removing them prior to the blackout.
He did remember, however, repeatedly telling McGuire to quit doing what he was doing that amounted to the sexual assault.
MB reported that upon coming around, he felt McGuire “touching him sexually in the anal area,” which prompted the man to tell McGuire to stop.
Bedroom door locked
MB then reported that he again blacked out; and when he came around again, McGuire was again “assaulting him.”
This time, the alleged assault amounted to McGuire forcing his penis into the man’s mouth, this while McGuire was holding MB’s head and neck with both hands.
Again MB told McGuire to stop.
At this point, he reported, McGuire told him to get up so they could go into McGuire’s bedroom.
MB responded, telling McGuire “no” repeatedly, and then stating that he wanted to throw up.
Nevertheless, McGuire, MB said, grabbed his arm, took him out of the bathroom and led him by both his wrists toward McGuire’s bedroom, where they were stopped because for whatever reason, the door was locked. This prompted McGuire to very angrily shout “This is my room!!” twice.
Finding this crimp in the alleged plan with MB (whose pants were now on, but inside-out), this afforded enough time for another partygoer, a female by the name of Paige Davis, to approach the two and tell McGuire, “I think (MB) is really drunk; you shouldn’t do that.”
McGuire was reported to have responded, “It’s college; people experiment. Let it go.”
The girl then asked MB if he wanted to “do this,” to which he responded “no.” At that point, Davis took MB to a different bathroom in the residence, and he waited with her until a ride showed up for him.
Davis did tell the investigating authorities that she had seen the two men “kissing consensually” prior to the episode.
Details
MB reported the incident to police the next day, and authorities interviewed McGuire.
He told them that he’d seen MB “highly intoxicated and being loud and obnoxious” at the party but that he’d had no interaction with him other than handing him a drink, and denied all the victim’s allegations of sexual conduct.
Nevertheless, MB had described details of McGuire’s naked groin in that it was “clean shaven and well-kempt,” as well as provided details of the home and rooms in which the incident was said to have taken place, and upon conclusion of questioning, McGuire was taken into custody and he submitted to DNA samples.
He was arrested after questioning and charged with a Wyoming count of Sexual Assault in the First Degree.
McGuire was held on a $100,000 cash bond awaiting a hearing, which was held Dec. 5. The judge in the case found probable cause, and McGuire was bound over for trial.
Above is the first page of the charging docu- ments from Laramie, Wyoming, in Albany County regarding Jordan Lee McGuire’s latest foray in alleged sex assaults.
2014 trial
McGuire had just finished a trial in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, over the summer of 2014, during which he, as a music instructor at an Evansville high school in 2012, had been accused of basically doing the exact same thing he was accused of doing in Laramie.
The alleged victim in the Indiana case was an 18-year-old who was not one of McGuire’s students at Harrison High School in Evansville, but was instead a former student who was a volunteer in a musical production McGuire was directing.
Unfortunately for McGuire, his alleged tactics of getting an alleged victim drunk to the point that he can’t consent was what hemmed him up in Vanderburgh County, as the “can’t give consent” aspect of it amounts to rape…and McGuire was subsequently charged with Criminal Deviate Conduct, which is what brought him to trial last summer.
During trial, his attorney was able to successfully put doubt in the jury’s mind that the alleged victim was awake and did give consent…and McGuire was found not guilty.
Upon the decision, he moved to Wyoming, apparently taking his bad habits with him.
The bad habits
McGuire was first charged with such conduct in November of 2007 in Saline County, where he was a student at SIC.
At a party in Harco on October 13, McGuire was accused of what amounts to the exact same thing as in the other situations: getting a boy drunk and attempting to have forcible anal sex with him.
McGuire was charged with Criminal Sexual Assault by use of Force on Nov. 1, 2007. That was later pled down to a Battery charge in 2009 after negotiations with prosecutor Mike Henshaw, who was faced with the fact that the victim in the case had left the area and simply could not be located.
Because the end result was not a sexual assault or battery, McGuire’s record didn’t reflect it. When he graduated Southern Illinois University a few years later, it appeared that all had been forgotten…except for one thing: In early 2014, while the Vanderburgh County case was headed to trial, he was reportedly accused of doing the exact same thing to a young man in the city of Carbondale.
The man was never identified; his age and the circumstances were unavailable; and, probably due in large part to the ineptitude of the Carbondale police (who have come under fire in recent years for covering up deaths in their town), nothing ever came of it.
Jail is home for now
All of this makes for a very precarious situation for a number of people around McGuire, not just for the young man himself.
Because of how litigious society is these days, those who have claimed to have been a victim of McGuire—as well as those who may have been but haven’t spoken up yet—might be looking at civil litigation as an answer to the problem they might feel he’s posed with his alleged machinations: using alcohol to ply young men into sexual conduct.
How many more people might come forward—and who they might blame in the process—remains to be seen as the Wyoming case proceeds through court.
However, McGuire has now been held for several weeks, and there doesn’t appear to be any immediate possibility that he’ll be released: with a cash bond set as high as his is (due in large part, according to the judge, that McGuire is a flight risk and a risk of safety to others), and with no one present in Wyoming to take responsibility for his “custody, control and responsibility for (McGuire’s) behavior,” as well as assurance that they have a net worth in excess of twice the bond ($200,000), it appears the Albany County jail is McGuire’s home, perhaps until trial.
McGuire has reportedly been suspended from enrollment at the university until the outcome of the charge is reached.