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MMAjunkie.com captured a since-deleted post on X from the former UFC two-division champion where he appears to admit he was one the phone with law enforcement officers who were on the scene of a crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier this year.
“Whoever was on the phone with me at first, his timestamp is different,” Jones reportedly wrote. “By the time I was acting aggressive on the phone it was a completely different conversation. I was already in my paranoid and defensive state.”
Jones is facing a misdemeanor charge of fleeing the scene of an accident stemming from a two-vehicle collision in Albuquerque on Feb. 21. In bodycam footage that was released earlier this week, a woman in the passenger seat of one of the vehicles tells officers that Jones was the driver. She then calls a man who she claims is “Bones,” who proceeds to threaten officers during a brief conversation.
Deleted Social Media Post Could Implicate Jones
“You won’t be the first guy this year that I’ve threatened … You’d be the second one,” the man can be heard saying.
“…My brothers, they kill people for way less. If something happens to me dude, she’s flat and dead,” he adds.
While the man never identifies himself when asked during the video, Jones might have implicated himself with the deleted social media post. Meanwhile, a criminal complaint states that Jones was questioned in a follow-up interview after the crash and during that conversation he alluded to speaking on the phone with an individual who “immediately opened the conversation with unprofessional language, which led him to doubt the legitimacy of the individual’s claim to be a law enforcement officer.” Jones is due to appear in court for a bond arraignment on July 24.
The news of the charge came to light after it was announced that Jones was retiring from MMA this past Saturday. UFC CEO Dana White said that a heavyweight title unification bout between Jones and interim champ Tom Aspinall had been targeted for the promotion’s annual card in New York in November before “Bones” had a change of heart and called it a career.
In a since-deleted post on X, Jon Jones appeared to implicate himself as the voice on the phone who threatened police during the immediate aftermath of an alleged hit-and-run. pic.twitter.com/hW5aFWNx9y
— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) June 25, 2025
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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