GLASGOW — The real Amy Jordan was just playing marbles.

She thinks it makes her a “dork” that she enjoys the game so much, but she didn’t know it would end up with felony drug charges and a fugitive warrant attached to her name.

Jordan’s friend, Angela Moss, had been staying with her since Thanksgiving. They had been friends since third grade and had stayed close. Jordan sent cards and gifts to Moss’ children and Jordan’s children knew Moss as an aunt. They had been valedictorian and salutatorian of their high school class. They grew apart for a while when Jordan moved from Ohio to Glasgow for a new start to her life, but they remained in touch.

“I hadn’t seen [Moss] in about seven years, but I invited her for Thanksgiving and she just never left,” Jordan said.

When Jordan lost her job at a local factory, she got the opportunity to take classes at Daymar College with funding through the Barren River Area Development District. She has been on the President’s List, maintains a 4.0 grade point average and hates being absent from class. She participates in activities in the Temple Hill school, where her 12-year-old son, Hunter, is a sixth-grader. The only brush with the law she’d had was a traffic violation. All in all, she said, she considers herself to have a good reputation in the community.

But within a matter of days, she said, Moss managed to tarnish her reputation and everything in her life.

One evening  Jordan said she and Moss went to a house to play marbles and visit with friends. Moss was apprehended by Glasgow police after what they thought was a possible domestic altercation at the Town Hotel on Happy Valley Road. Witnesses at the scene stated that they had seen Moss using drugs in a hotel room. Police found a tablet of the narcotic Lyrica, for which Moss had no prescription. She was trying to conceal the tablet in a bottle of Ibuprofen in her purse. When police arrested her, she said she didn’t have any identification.

She told police her name was Amy Jordan, and provided Jordan’s address, social security number and birthdate.

“It was the easiest information for her to use,” Jordan said. “I don’t know how she got my Social Security number but she stayed in my house and I am very meticulous about being organized so she could have found it.”

Though she knew Moss had been through some rough times in her life, Jordan had no idea that her old friend had become addicted to drugs, she said. She certainly didn’t know she was a fugitive from Ohio on a probation violation from a previous drug charge. Moss also had previous deception to obtain a dangerous drug charges listed in the Hamilton County Clerk of courts records.

When the police released reports the next day, Jordan got a frantic call from her mother, asking if she’d seen the newspaper or checked a local radio station.

“This is a small community and I have worked hard to get where I am, to keep a good rapport with everyone for my son’s sake too,” Jordan said. “And I’m in school for medical billing and coding, I can’t get a job with a charge like that on my record. I felt like I was betrayed.”

After the news came out, Jordan had to begin the process of recovering her name and reputation. She started at the police department and told them the mix up. She said Lt. Cols. Kent Keen and James Duff were helpful in taking her to the clerk of courts to make sure the mistake was fixed and asking her to come back if she had questions. Still, she does not think the matter was handled well at the start.

“I feel like the police officer was negligent, [Moss] didn’t have her photo ID so they just took her word about her ID,” Jordan said. “That just doesn’t seem right.”

Keen said that can happen in the event that no identification is available.

“We take their address and everything off their license, but sometimes they don’t have a license in possession so we just ask,” Keen said. “There’s no way to know until after the fact that they’ve given a false address, there’s no way to enforce that.”

Once the police were informed and a new police citation was made, she then had to repossess her own identity. She gave a new set of fingerprints to the police and reconfigured her social networking profiles and online identities as well. As a result of the situation, she now checks her bank account online daily. She even received an inquiry from Social Services to make sure her son was safe.

“I feel like I’m getting run over by everyone, and I can’t go around to everywhere so there are still a lot of people that think I have a drug problem because of this,” she said.

She has spoken to a lawyer, but is not pressing for further charges on some alleged threats Moss has placed against her, her family and her son. She has blocked Moss and friends of Moss on her e-mail accounts and blocked her phone number. The harassment seems to have stopped since then, but she still keeps a close eye on her son.

“I’m still scared, [Moss] still knows where I live, and my son, he’s more scared of them doing things to our family or our property.” Jordan said. “But I’m not in this for any other reason but to clear my name. Justice should be served.”

Moss is out on bond, currently charged in Barren County with third-degree possession of a controlled substance, first offense. She is set to appear in court on July 30.

She has not been charged with fraud and, according to Keen, she will not be charged with identity theft because she did not use Jordan’s identity for “financial gain.”