UFC great Jon Jones rocked with another criminal charge after sudden retirement
Article content
The controversial UFC heavyweight champion announced his abrupt retirement this past weekend before a report surfaced that he was facing a criminal charge relating to a traffic stop in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this year.
Article content
The Albuquerque Journal reported on Saturday that Jones has a criminal summons accusing the 37-year-old of a misdemeanour charge of leaving the scene of an accident in February.
Article content
Jones has been called to appear for a bond arraignment on July 24.
Article content
On Monday, Jones' lawyer, Christopher Dodd, fired back at the local police, calling the charge 'strange and unwarranted.'
Article content
'As Jon's lawyer,' Dodd told TMZ, 'I am stunned by the Albuquerque Police Department's decision to charge him in this new case. In the thousands of cases I have handled in my career, I have never seen a case as strange and unwarranted as this one.'
Article content
In the court document, police allege that while investigating a traffic incident they discovered a woman in the passenger seat of a car who had been 'exhibiting signs of significant intoxication and lacking clothing from the waist down.'
Article content
When questioned, the woman allegedly told officers that Jones was the driver of the vehicle, but had left on foot following the crash.
Article content
Article content
Article content
'Jon was not driving that night, he wasn't in the car,' Dodd told the outlet. 'It appears that an intoxicated woman used a false allegation against Jon to avoid being arrested for DWI and the police fell for it.
Article content
Article content
'Based on the criminal complaint, it looks like they went so far as to seek a warrant for Jon's cellphone records while conducting a misdemeanour traffic investigation. I have never heard of such a thing.'
Article content
This is far from Jones' first brush with the law.
Article content
In 2015, Jones pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after an incident in which he was alleged to have run a red light, crashing his rental car in a collision involving two other vehicles. Jones allegedly fled the scene on foot, leaving behind an injured pregnant woman in another vehicle.
Article content
In 2021, Jones was charged with domestic battery – which was later dropped — and tampering with a police vehicle after an alleged incident with his fiancee in Las Vegas.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
National Post
38 minutes ago
- National Post
Boys are adopting Andrew Tate's misogynistic views — and bringing them to class, study finds
Article content 'It's easy to think 'that's a young person's internet culture,' and not worry too much about it,' Cousineau said. Article content 'Young men are saying, 'I don't have to listen to you or respect you' to their women-identified teachers, solely because they're women. It's an old story made new again by this re-invigoration of really overt and strong misogyny.' Article content Middle and high school teachers, as well as some elementary school ones, reported that boys were 'actively parroting male supremacist rhetoric at school,' devaluing women teachers and making classrooms less safe, the study found. Article content 'There were a group of them, all friends, who to the (vice principal's) face told him that they would only respect/pay attention in classes taught by men and would not behave in classes taught by women,' one teacher posted. Article content 'If they already have trouble respecting someone simply because that person happens to have a vagina, then they aren't going to listen to that person with a vagina explain how disrespecting people with a vagina is harmful,' another commented. Article content 'Seemingly, ninety per cent of my work is trying to talk white teenage boys off the alt-right ledge,' according to another comment researchers paraphrased using an AI tool because the user didn't respond to requests to use verbatim quotes. Article content Another knew of a 7th grade teacher who said the boys in his class 'have taken to calling all women and girls 'holes' and anybody who is friendly or polite to girls a 'simp.'' Article content While some teachers remarked that female students pushed back and called out male classmates for spouting Tate-inspired anti-woman hate, teachers also worried that the rise in misogynistic rhetoric will lead to 'tangible safety threats like gender-based violence in schools,' the researchers wrote. Article content 'I had a student write a paper in graphic detail bout (sic) how SA (sexual assault) victims 'deserved' it and 'all women were asking for it' and a lot of other extremely alarming sentiments,' one user commented. 'The paper topic was nowhere close to anything like this, but he wrote it anyway.' Article content 'I've never heard such vitriol from young boys since this Andrew Tate guy came on the scene,' another said. Article content Some teachers suggested that boys were imitating Tate for attention. 'That kind of young boy likes to be ironically edgy because they're testing boundaries…. Since their intention is to insult and appall the more you resist this kind of behaviour, the more it rewards them,' one wrote. Article content Teachers sometimes said that when they told their administrators a boy had made lewd or sexual comments towards them or other girls it was brushed off as 'boys will be boys.' Article content 'Sometimes it's a little more overt than that,' Cousineau said. 'There are some illusions to folks saying, 'I think my administrator actually agrees with them.'' Article content 'We really wanted to demonstrate this is happening in real time, and it's having some significant impacts,' he said. 'There are real and tangible dangers to continuing to do nothing. Not recognizing this as a real issue allows it to proliferate and continue.' Article content This isn't just the immature actions of some boys. 'While it is tempting to be reductionist about a problem like this, we have zero social tolerance for overt racism, especially in the classroom. Why should we tolerate identity-focused hate based on gender,' Cousineau said. Article content Violent misogyny is never fine. 'It only takes one violent misogynist to carry out a Toronto Van Attack or another Ecole Polytechnique.' Article content In 2018, Alex Minassian drove a rented van into pedestrians on a busy sidewalk on Toronto's Yonge Street, killing 10. Minassian once told a psychiatrist after the attack that he realized his victims were random pedestrians and was 'wishing for more females.' Article content In December 1989, 14 women in a mechanical engineering classroom were killed by gunman Marc Lépine at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique. Article content How to monitor what kids are exposed to gets into thorny territory, he said. 'Do parents know what their kids consume online? Are lots of parents having in-depth, connected conversations with their kids about what they're consuming and what the implications of that are? Generally, no.' Article content Article content 'These are really hard things to do. But if we don't know what kids are exposing themselves to, and we're not engaging with them, that stuff might not come out at home,' Cousineau said. 'It might come out at school.' Article content 'We have evidence in this country, and many other places around the world, of the most extreme form of these kinds of violent misogyny, and nihilistic violent misogyny, where young men go out and kill people because of these ideas,' said Cousineau. Article content Those acts of violence don't come out of nowhere, Cousineau said. People grow into them. 'All of the data we have about radicalized violence show us they develop over time,' he said. Article content
CTV News
an hour ago
- CTV News
Shooting in Chicago wounds multiple people, police say
Officers work the scene of a shooting Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP) CHICAGO — Multiple people were shot Wednesday night in Chicago, police said. No additional details on the shooting were immediately available, including the number of people shot and the exact location. Officer Julio Garcia, with the Chicago Police Department, said police would release additional updates as they became available. Chris King, a spokesperson for Northwestern Medicine, said the emergency department was evaluating several people injured in the shooting. He could not provide the number of people sent to the hospital or their conditions. The Associated Press
Globe and Mail
6 hours ago
- Globe and Mail
Boeing, U.S. Justice Department ask judge to approve deal allowing company to avoid prosecution
Boeing BA-N and the Justice Department on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to approve an agreement that allows the company to avoid prosecution despite objections from relatives of some of the 346 people killed in two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. The deal enables Boeing to avoid being branded a convicted felon and to escape oversight from an independent monitor for three years that was part of a plea deal struck in 2024 to a criminal fraud charge that it misled U.S. regulators about a crucial flight control system on the 737 MAX, its bestselling jet. Boeing argued the executive branch solely has the power to decide whether to bring or maintain a prosecution. 'Because it is entirely within the government's discretion whether to pursue a criminal prosecution, an agreement not-to-prosecute does not require court approval,' Boeing said, asking a judge to reject objections filed by the families and grant the government's motion to dismiss the charge. 'Disputing the government's considered assessment of litigation risk, the calculation of the maximum fine, or the appropriate mechanism for compliance oversight, do not demonstrate – even remotely – that the government was clearly motivated by considerations contrary to the public interest.' Boeing reaches deal with U.S. Justice department to avoid prosecution in 737 MAX fraud case The Justice Department said in a court filing it acted in good faith and in accordance with the law, agreeing to dismiss the case for an agreement 'that secures a significant fine, compliance improvements, and a substantial victim compensation fund.' The families cited Judge Reed O'Connor's statement in 2023 that 'Boeing's crime may properly be considered the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.' They argue dismissal is not in the public interest and obligations imposed on Boeing are not enforceable. If the government declined to move forward with the prosecution even if the court rejected the deal, O'Connor should appoint a special prosecutor, the families said. Boeing and the Justice Department both asked O'Connor to reject appointing a special prosecutor. Under the deal, Boeing agreed to pay an additional $444.5 million into a crash victims fund to be divided evenly per crash victim, on top of a new $243.6 million fine. Boeing in July 2024 agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge after the two fatal 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Under the non-prosecution agreement, Boeing will pay $1.1 billion in total, including the fine, compensation to families and more than $455 million to strengthen the company's compliance, safety and quality programs. The vast majority of the families have settled civil suits with Boeing and collectively have been 'paid several billion dollars,' the Justice Department said.
