Tate Jordan Cly

REGIONAL- Tate Jordan Cly, 21, of Orr, was scheduled to be arraigned in St. Louis County District Court on Friday on a charge of driving while his license was revoked, the third such offense in a record of offenses dating back to 2022.
Cly was serving two years supervised probation for an Oct. 28, 2024, driving while intoxicated conviction when he was pulled over in Virgina on March 2 for a burned out headlight. He was cited for driving without a valid license and for operating a vehicle without a required ignition interlock device.
Cly was arrested on Oct. 14 for the DWI offense, just nine days prior to being convicted and sentenced for domestic assault by strangulation committed in Duluth in April 2024. Judge Teresa Neo sentenced Cly to 18 months of incarceration but stayed the sentence and ordered three years of supervised probation.
But Cly was already on three years’ supervised probation for a conviction handed down in January 2024 for felony threats of violence in connection with a September 2023 knife fight incident in Ely. Cly’s attorney negotiated a plea deal in which a more serious charge of assault with a dangerous weapon was dismissed. Cly was subsequently found in violation of his probation and ordered to spend 60 days in St. Louis County Jail.
Cly’s previous arrests for driving without a license were in March 2023 and November 2022, both stemming from a license revocation tied to an August 2022 conviction for careless driving, which was originally filed as a driving while intoxicated charge and converted to the lesser charge.