Former Miami Hurricanes football player Rashaun Jones, who authorities allege killed his teammate Bryan Pata, is now facing charges for another crime while in jail.
Authorities now accuse Jones of possessing illicit drugs while incarcerated, according to an arrest report obtained by CBS News Miami. An investigator from the Miami-Dade Police Department visited the Metro West Detention Center on March 27, 2024, regarding contraband discovered inside the jail. Jones was awaiting his first trial at the time.
While there, the investigator met with a K-9 officer who reported that Rashaun Jones had a half-sheet and seventeen separate shredded sheets containing suspected K-2. The arrest report states that the officer found the torn sheets of paper in Jones’ waistband and the half-sheet in his shirt sleeve.
The paper discovered on Jones in 2024 tested positive for ADB-BUTINACA, a substance present in synthetic marijuana, according to test data the investigator obtained from the crime lab.
“Even though these allegations are from March 2024, over two years ago, we are just learning about this,” the lawyer for Rashuan Jones told CBS News Miami. “We will be looking into these allegations and addressing this as soon as we receive more information.”
Rashaun Jones’ trials have been beset by delays
In September of 2025, Florida law enforcement discovered that a key witness who picked Rashaun Jones out of a lineup, more than once, and had been presumed dead was, in fact, still alive. The witness picked Jones out of a photo lineup in 2006 and again in 2020 during a re-interview. He also shared what he witnessed at a 2022 bond hearing and again in a 2023 deposition.
Authorities accused Rashaun Jones of killing his teammate Bryan Pata in 2006, but they didn’t arrest him until 2021. A trial earlier this year ended in a hung jury, which prompted the judge to declare a mistrial.
In May of this year, a judge postponed Jones’ retrial due to an internal police investigation into the lead investigator, a misconduct complaint against the former lead prosecutor, and the reintroduction of a jailhouse informant.
The authorities are still holding Jones in custody, five years after his arrest, and he will soon face a second trial for Bryan Pata’s murder. For this most recent offense, the judge set his bond at $2,500 on Wednesday.