UFC superstar arrested for domestic violence

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Former UFC champion Jon Jones was jailed successful Las Vegas aboriginal aft an incidental astatine Caesars Palace that constabulary said led to his apprehension connected charges of home artillery and damaging a vehicle.

Details of the incidental that led to Jones' 5:45 a.m. apprehension astatine the Las Vegas Strip edifice were not instantly made nationalist by Las Vegas police.

Jail and tribunal records showed Jonathan Dwight Jones, 34, posted $8,000 bail and was owed for an archetypal tribunal quality Saturday, with an Oct. 26 day for prosecutors to record transgression charges. The home artillery complaint is simply a misdemeanor. The conveyance complaint is simply a felony, with harm reported astatine much than $US5,000.

It was not instantly wide if Jones had an attorney.

Caesars Entertainment Inc. declined to comment, citing an progressive constabulary investigation.

Jones lives successful Albuquerque, New Mexico, but helium attended a Thursday nighttime UFC Hall of Fame induction ceremonial astatine the Park MGM edifice honoring his 2013 combat with Alexander Gustafsson.

Jones (26-1, 1 no-contest) had 3 abstracted stints arsenic the UFC’s airy heavyweight champion from 2011 to 2020, and helium is wide considered 1 of the top fighters successful MMA history.

But his UFC vocation has been defined much by misbehavior extracurricular the cage than his excellence successful it.

In 2012, a twelvemonth aft becoming the youngest champion successful UFC history, Jones was arrested for DUI aft crashing his Bentley into a telephone rod successful upstate Binghamton, New York.

Jones past mislaid his rubric successful 2015 erstwhile helium was arrested and charged with a felony stemming from a hit-and-run mishap successful New Mexico successful which helium broke a large driver’s arm.

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Jones pleaded nary contention to disorderly behaviour successful 2019 aft an incidental with a waitress astatine a portion nine successful Albuquerque, and helium was arrested past twelvemonth successful Albuquerque connected charges of aggravated driving nether the power and negligent usage of a firearm.

Jones has failed respective cause tests from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which runs the UFC’s antidoping program.

He was forced retired of a combat with Daniel Cormier astatine UFC 200 successful 2016 aft investigating affirmative for 2 banned substances that helium blamed connected a intersexual enhancement pill.

He past tested affirmative for an anabolic steroid successful 2017, prompting the UFC to portion his airy heavyweight rubric for a 2nd time. The California State Athletic Commission overturned the effect of his triumph implicit Cormier astatine UFC 214, and Jones received a 15-month competitory suspension.

Because of his arrests, suspensions and assorted disputes with the UFC, Jones has fought lone 8 times successful the past 8 years during the ostensible premier of his career. He hasn’t fought since beating Dominick Reyes successful February 2020 for his 4th consecutive victory.

Jones relinquished the airy heavyweight rubric past twelvemonth and declared his volition to determination up to heavyweight. He told reporters Thursday nighttime helium wants to measurement 270 pounds erstwhile helium makes his heavyweight debut, hopefully adjacent spring.

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