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Jon Jones is facing more allegations stemming from a bizarre car crash incident in New Mexico. Over the weekend, it was revealed that the Albuquerque police department had filed charges against the former UFC heavyweight champion for allegedly fleeing the scene of a car accident while leaving a female passenger behind.
Via ABQ Journal
Mateo and Lomas when she came across a woman in the front passenger seat of one of the cars “exhibiting signs of significant intoxication and lacking clothing from the waist down.”
The woman reportedly said Jones was the driver, but fled the scene on foot. She then called Jones, the complaint stated, and a police service aide spoke to the man on the other end of the call believed to be Jones. He “appeared to be heavily intoxicated and made statements implying his capacity to employ lethal force through third parties” to the PSA, the court record stated.
Jones’ lawyer Christopher Dodd blasted the police department in a statement to the ABQ Journal.
“I have never seen a case as strange and unwarranted as this one,” Dodd wrote. “… Jon was not driving that night; he wasn’t in the car. It appears that an intoxicated woman used a false allegation against Jon to avoid being arrested for DWI, and the police fell for it.”
On Monday, the Albuquerque police department released bodycam video of the incident and is accusing Jones of threatening an officer over the phone.
The video also clearly shows her calling a man who never identifies himself, but whom she says is Jones, and on speaker phone that man talks to the police safety aide doing the initial investigation and makes what the PSA believed to be threatening remarks.
“You wont be the first guy this year that I’ve threatened … You’d be the second one,” the man, who never identifies himself as Jones, can be heard saying.
“Maybe he (it is unclear who he is referring to) would take it out on (the woman in the car) 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 dude, she’s (the woman in the car) flat and dead,” the man on the phone says.
The man on the other end of the call never identifies himself as Jones, even when asked multiple times to identify himself.
The police department fired back at Jones’ lawyer and believes their investigation was warranted, considering one of their officers was threatened.
“In addition to the multiple phone calls and text messages, the PSA believed he was threatened by Jones during the interaction,” APD Spokesman Gilbert Gallegos told the Journal.
“So, yes, for everyone’s sake, APD officers took the incident seriously and conducted a more thorough investigation before making a decision to file charges.”
Jones’ lawyers did not comment after the video was released.
Dodd said he had no further comment other than the statement he released to multiple outlets, but did note that he has asked for the same video as part of the discovery process in a criminal case, but he was told it is not ready.