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Former UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who retired from competition just a few days back, is accused of leaving the scene of an accident earlier this year in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Both Jones and his attorney vehemently denied the allegations and claim the driver of the vehicle named “Bones” to escape potential criminal charges.
Police subsequently released portions of its body cam video footage to Albuquerque Journal, which includes a threatening phone call with a police safety aide responding to the crash. A half-naked woman in the passenger seat, who admitted to being intoxicated (and under the influence of mushrooms) insists the officer is talking to “Jon Jones, the fighter.”
“They slit throats,” the caller says. “They definitely listen to conversations like this and some of them are bored enough to kill you. To kill YOU. You won’t be the first guy this year that I’ve threatened. You’d be the second one. Maybe he would take it out on her if something bad ever happens, just because of the (expletive) you said. My brothers, they kill people for way less. If something happens to me, she’s flat and dead.”
Jones, 37, was previously interviewed in the days following the crash and claimed the driver of the car left his house intoxicated and called him after wrecking her vehicle. “Bones” was later charged with a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident, prompting his attorney to blast the police for its “baseless case” and “waste of resources.”
Unfortunately for Jones, any brush with law enforcement will dredge up his history of vehicular incompetence, as well as his unhealthy relationship with alcohol and the ugly, 2021 arrest in Las Vegas that involved the mother of his children. “Bones” is expected to return to court to answer for the misdemeanor charge on July 24.
