A Mountain Home man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after he injured a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper during a traffic stop in late 2017. A jury in Wright County in early December found 28-year-old Jordan Haden guilty of second-degree assault of a special victim and resisting arrest. Haden, whose wife is a state trooper in Missouri, had originally been charged with first-degree assault but the jury did not find enough evidence for that charge, and instead returned the guilty verdict on the second-degree charge.
The Ozark County Times reports Haden was arrested December 2, 2017 when he punched Cpl. Daniel Johnson in the face, breaking his jaw in two places and causing a brain injury. Cpl. Johnson had stopped Haden’s vehicle when he noticed it did not have a front license plate and the back license plate was homemade. During the stop, the trooper smelled alcohol and asked Haden to submit to sobriety tests, but he would not cooperate.