The former UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, no longer faces positions derived from an incident in February in which he was accused of fleeing the scene of an accident and threatening a police officer.
The Bernalillo County District Prosecutor's Office in New Mexico withdrew all charges against Jones on Tuesday, citing that he has “reasons to believe that Alibi's defense of the accused is credible.” In an unusual detail, the charges appeared against Jones twice due to a “clerical error”, which resulted in multiple cases with respect to an incident.
“I want to start thanking the district prosecutor's office for carefully reviewing the facts and finally claiming me completely,” Jones wrote on X on Tuesday. “I have always believed the importance of truth and justice, and I am grateful that the evidence will speak for itself. The simple fact is this: I was never there. I never left my house that night, and all the evidence showed that.”
The charges against Jones emerged from a car accident on February 21 in the hometown of Jones de Albuquerque. The police responded to a half -naked woman in the vehicle who said Jones had been driving and left.
Bodycam's images showed that the woman later called a man who said she was Jones, who then made verbal threats to the officer on the scene. In June, Jones seemed to involve himself as the man on the phone, when he wrote and then eliminated X, “who was talking with me at the beginning, his time brand is different. When he acted aggressive on the phone, it was a completely different conversation. I was already in my paranoid and defensive state.”
Jones has dealt with several legal problems in his career. She was arrested and accused of a serious crime run over in 2015 after fleeing the scene of an accident that injured a 25 -year -old pregnant woman. He declared himself guilty of abandoning the scene of an accident and was sentenced to supervised probation.
Jones also declared himself guilty of DWI's positions in 2012 in New York and 2020 in New Mexico.
Widely considered the best fighter of all time, Jones withdrew from the competition earlier this year instead of trying to unify his heavyweight title against the interim champion Tom Aspininll. He quickly announced that he intended to get out of retirement, however, hoping to compete in the planned UFC event in the White House in July 2026.
