Jon Jones reached a pre-adjudication settlement to dismiss the costs in his case involving a drug-testing agent who filed assault expenses in opposition to the UFC heavyweight champion again in March.
On Tuesday, Choose Asra Elliott authorized an settlement between the arresting officer and Jones that so long as he avoids any bother for the following 90 days, and undergoes 4 hours of anger administration that the 2 pending misdemeanor expenses in opposition to him might be dismissed.
Jones appeared on the listening to through Zoom alongside his legal professional Christopher Dodd.
The decide authorized the settlement with Jones’ legal professional agreeing to seem after 90 days to substantiate his clearance from all expenses.
“So long as Mr. Jones is compliant for the following 90 days, then I can dismiss this case,” Elliott mentioned.
The 2 expenses — assault, a petty misdemeanor, and interference with communications, a misdemeanor — had been handed down after Jones allegedly obtained into an altercation with drug testing brokers who arrived at his dwelling to retrieve a urine pattern beneath the UFC’s anti-doping program.
After arriving, an agent recognized as Crystal Martinez claimed Jones “appeared agitated” after he was unable to supply a urine pattern and was provided the chance for a blood check as a substitute. Martinez claimed Jones then started asking them questions together with “if that they had cash” as a result of he was going to sue them. She additionally claimed that Jones allegedly grabbed her cellphone and “began recording them.”
Martinez instructed police she was “terrified” with Jones standing lower than a foot away from her through the alleged incident and he or she was “afraid Jones would possibly hit her” after she contemplated terminating the drug check and leaving his property.
Jones vehemently denied the allegations.
Now as long as Jones avoids every other points with regulation enforcement over the following 90 days, the 2 misdemeanor expenses might be dismissed to deliver all the ordeal to a detailed.
In fact, Jones is now simply over two weeks away from his return to motion as he prepares to face Stipe Miocic within the UFC 309 most important occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. The battle serves as Jones’ first protection of the heavyweight title after he dispatched Ciryl Gane inside the primary spherical again in March 2023.
Jones was slated to face Miocic this previous November however he suffered a torn pectoral muscle that saved him sidelined for a number of months. Now, he’ll return for the battle in opposition to Miocic on Nov. 16.
