Jon Jones faces new charges after bizarre New Mexico crash

Veteran UFC heavyweight Jon Jones, 36, is backmost successful the spotlight for his ineligible troubles pursuing an incidental successful New Mexico connected February 21. He was already charged with leaving the country of an accident, but present helium has been charged with a caller number of allegedly “using a telephone to intimidate, threaten, harass oregon insult.”

According to a constabulary report, 2 cars were progressive successful the crash, and a pistillate was recovered successful 1 of them “in a authorities of evident intoxication and bare from the waist down.” She claims the arguable combatant was down the instrumentality of her conveyance and fled connected ft aft the crash. A telephone telephone soon followed, wherever the pistillate handed implicit the instrumentality to a constabulary deputy. The serviceman spoke to a idiosyncratic helium believes to beryllium Jones, and the conversation, they say, was filled with “allusions to violence.” The idiosyncratic connected the telephone did not privation to corroborate their identity.

Officer Andrew Romero, who came arsenic backup, besides spoke to Jones connected the telephone and recorded akin threats. Later, erstwhile the combatant was officially contacted, helium claimed that the telephone was suspicious due to the fact that the idiosyncratic connected the different extremity of the enactment instantly utilized an "unprofessional tone," which led him to uncertainty her identity.

COURT RECORDS AND DOUBLE CHARGES

Police obtained his telephone records, utilizing a tribunal order, and recovered that helium called the pistillate 13 times betwixt 2:17 and 11:34 a.m., portion his geolocation awesome was "invisible" from 11:51 p.m. to 2:11 a.m. — the nonstop clip the mishap occurred.

The archetypal complaint of leaving the country of an mishap is already active, and Jon has pleaded not guilty. His proceedings is scheduled for August 14. However, the caller charge, filed by the aforesaid officer, Romero, has raised ineligible issues implicit the imaginable treble prosecution of the aforesaid incident. Jones' attorney, Christopher Dodd, filed a question to disregard the 2nd indictment.

"Mr. Jones is already facing transgression proceedings successful a abstracted lawsuit based connected the aforesaid facts, and it was wholly inappropriate to record a caller indictment," Dodd said. "Both cases interest the aforesaid incidental and present helium has to support the aforesaid lawsuit successful 2 places astatine the aforesaid time. It is not wide wherefore the officers from the aforesaid constabulary presumption did not coordinate, unless it was intentional for immoderate nefarious purpose."

The lawsuit has been assigned to Judge Brittany Maldonado, who has not yet ruled connected the question to dismiss. The 2nd indictment is inactive active, and the adjacent proceeding is scheduled for August 4.

Ironically, a fewer hours earlier the archetypal indictment became public, the 36-year-old announced his status from his MMA career. However, emblematic of him, helium rapidly announced his return, saying helium would instrumentality to USADA's anti-doping program, aft erstwhile President Donald Trump mentioned the anticipation of staging a combat successful the White House successful 2026.