The Indiana Court of Appeals recently rejected appeals in two cases that had wrongful arrests involving the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.

Michael Anthony Jordan

Michael A. Jordan, now 52, sued the Lake County Sheriff’s Department in January 2021 after officers wrongfully arrested him in August 2020 in a murder case.

They were looking for Antonio “Paul” Yanders, who was charged with the April 21, 2008, killing of 17-year-old Andrew McQuay. A second man was wounded.

Investigators said then that McQuay, known to relatives and friends as “Dodo,” and the other man were standing with a group of people in the 2500 block of Connecticut Street when shots were fired about 10:45 p.m. The wounded McQuay ran from the melee to the 2600 block of Massachusetts Street, where he fell in the middle o

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