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Heading into his anticipated light heavyweight title rematch against rival Daniel Cormier in the main event of April 23’s UFC 197 from Las Vegas (and mere days after he was given a warning and made a small donation for a previous traffic stop), former champ Jon Jones is back in MORE legal trouble involving driving an automobile.
Appearing on today’s (Mon., March 28, 2016) edition of The MMA Hour, Jones told show host Ariel Helwani that he was recently issued five traffic tickets in conjunction with accused drag racing in a recent stop late last Thursday/early Friday morning.
His official citations were drag racing, an ordinance against a modified exhaust, an illegible license plate, unable to maintain a traffic lane and exhibition driving according to a report from MMA Fighting.
The controversial pound-for-pound king said that he pulled up next to some fans at a stop light, and, not wanting to talk with them, instead ‘jokingly’ revved his engine to the delight of his fans. When the stoplight changed, Jones proceeded and said he was pulled over barely 10 yards later in the 35 mile-per-hour zone:
“I definitely wasn’t drag racing.”
Jones also said that he said some choice words to the officer that he now regrets as he continues to attempt to repair his heavily damaged image before denying any wrongdoing:
“I got emotional and said some things that I probably shouldn’t have said to a police officer. He needed something to justify pulling me over. He fabricated the whole thing that I was drag racing.”
The main ticket in the stop was for drag racing while the four others had to do with alleged equipment violations on his car.
The dominant but troubled Jones is still on probation after he struck a plea deal for his highly-publicized arrest on hit-and-run charges in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last year where he allegedly ran a red light to strike a 25-year-old pregnant woman, breaking her arm in the process.
Many thought he got off easy for the seemingly foolish and dangerous incident, but Jones was soon back in the headlines for a traffic stop where he was supposedly going 75 miles per hour in a 35 mile-per-hour zone, but was given a warning and let off in audio tapes from the Albuquerque Police Department.
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