Jon Jones has been cleared of all prices stemming from a February incident the place the previous UFC champion was accused of fleeing the scene of an accident and threatening an officer.
On Tuesday, the Bernalillo County (New Mexico) district legal professional’s workplace dropped all prices in opposition to Jones, citing it had “purpose to consider the defendant’s alibi protection is credible.” In keeping with ESPN, the fees have been filed in opposition to Jones twice attributable to a “clerical error,” which resulted in a number of circumstances being dismissed relating to the one incident.
“I need to start by thanking the district legal professional’s workplace for rigorously reviewing the information and in the end vindicating me utterly,” Jones wrote Tuesday on X. “I’ve all the time believed within the significance of fact and equity, and I’m grateful that the proof spoke for itself. The easy truth is that this: I used to be by no means there. I by no means even left my home that night time, and all of the proof proved that.”
The fees in opposition to Jones stemmed from a automobile accident on February 21 in Jones’ hometown of Albuquerque. Police reportedly responded to a half-naked girl within the car who claimed the previous UFC champion had been driving and fled. Bodycam footage confirmed the lady later calling a person she stated was Jones, who then made verbal threats to an officer on the scene.
In June, ‘Bones’ appeared to implicate himself as the person on the cellphone when he wrote after which deleted from X, “Whoever was on the cellphone with me at first, his timestamp is completely different. By the point I used to be appearing aggressive on the cellphone, it was a very completely different dialog. I used to be already in my paranoid and defensive state.”
It’s removed from the primary time Jones has discovered himself in authorized bother. In 2015, ‘Bones’ was arrested and charged with a felony hit-and-run after he fled the scene of a crash that injured a 25-year-old pregnant girl. He later pleaded responsible to fleeing the scene of an accident and was sentenced to supervised probation.
He additionally pleaded responsible to DWI prices in 2012 in New York and in 2020 in New Mexico.
