UFC’s Jon Jones reaches agreement to have two March misdemeanor charges dismissed
Charges connected with an alleged assault and threatening of a Drug Free Sport agent this past March against UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones will be dropped after two stipulations are met.
Jones reached a pre-adjudication agreement with the arresting officer to dismiss the charges, announced on Tuesday. Jones must both avoid any incidents for the next 90 days and undergo four hours of anger management sessions in order for the charges to be dropped.
Jones was alleged to both have assaulted and threatened to kill a Drug Free Sport tester when she attempted to get Jones to provide a sample at his home at 4 PM local time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 30th. Crystal Martinez alleged that Jones became agitated when she and another agent attempted to get the sample, taking her phone at one point and insinuating that people who show up to his home unwelcome “end up dead.”
She filed an internal report, but accused her boss of telling her to hold off on reporting it to the police until she spoke with the UFC first. Jones, who denied the allegations from the start, shared a video showing him high-fiving the two employees and acting jovial as they were leaving his home.
Jones is preparing for his first title defense against former champion Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, November 16th.
Jones released a statement on X after the deal was announced: