UPS employee missing

Vanessa Jordan-Henry knew something was wrong when her brother failed to return home to care for his two dogs.

Orlando Jordan, 39, isn’t a man who would walk away from his family, his job or his house with no warning, his sister said. But leaving the dogs without any care convinced her something had happened to him. “There’s no way my brother would go anywhere, and not take care of these dogs,” Jordan-Henry said, of the 6-year-old pitbull terriers, Desert and Eagle.

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Two weeks after she alerted Johns Creek police to her brother’s disappearance, authorities are now appealing for the public’s help. Police this week released a driver’s license photo of Jordan, a package handler for United Parcel Service, and ask anyone who has seen him to call. Police consider his disappearance “suspicious.”

Jordan, who is single and has no children, was on vacation from his job of 13 years when he disappeared, his sister said. He failed to report to work the following week.

“He would never neglect his job,” she said. “That’s his bread and butter.”

His vehicle was found abandoned in an apartment complex parking lot, off Clairmont Road, in north DeKalb County, after police activated its LoJack system, his sister said.

Jordan-Henry doesn’t think he knew anyone in that area. She talked every afternoon with her younger brother. She couldn’t reach him, for the first time, on Aug. 19.

Two weeks later, Jordan-Henry continues to make a round-trip commute each morning from her house in Smyrna to his home in north Fulton County, to care for his dogs. Their parents, back in their hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y., are distraught, she said.

“I wake up every morning with a sick, sick feeling,” she said. “I wouldn’t wish this on Osama Bin Laden.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Johns Creek police at 678-474-1600.