Bodycam video shows woman identify Jon Jones as man threatening cops on phone after crash
Albuquerque Police bodycam video sheds light on the immediate aftermath of former UFC champion Jon Jones’ latest run-in with the law.
Jones is up against a criminal summons accusing him of fleeing the scene of an accident and leaving a half-naked intoxicated woman behind, then making “allusions to violence” over the phone toward responding officers.
The woman, who said she drank alcohol at Jones’ house and took mushrooms there, said Jones was the driver of the vehicle, a claim Jones’ attorney, Christopher Dodd, vehemently denies.
Jones is scheduled for a bond arraignment July 24. The incident occured Feb. 21.
In the police video, which was released in portions to the Albuquerque Journal, the woman, sitting in the passneger seat, tells a police safety aide (PSA) that “Jon Jones the fighter” was driving and left the crash site.
At one point, she hands the PSA her phone and says “pleae talk to him.” The man’s voice on the phone, which sounds similar to Jones but never confirms his identity, asks the PSA to identify himself.
The PSA again asks the voice for his name. The woman then tells the PSA “that’s Jon Jones.” The voice sounds irritated by the conversation, brings up his brothers, and says “some of them are bored enough to kill you, to kill YOU.”
The PSA acknowledges those words as a threat, and the voice responds: “Guess what? You won’t be the first guy this year that I threaten, swear to God. You’d be the second one.”
The voice continues, “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 other end of the call never identifies himself as Jones after being asked directly if he is the former UFC champion, who has called Albuquerque home for many years.
Jones, who turns 38 next month, retired from MMA and relinquished the heavyweight championship, which now belongs to Tom Aspinall, who had been interim champ since Nov. 11, 2023.
For months, Jones didn’t appear interested in a title-unification bout against Aspinall. Now the fight is officially off the table as Jones rides off into the sunset of his latest legal battle.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Did Jon Jones threaten cops after crash? Watch police video
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