Jon Jones Busted Driving Without License Or Insurance
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is in legal trouble again and at a bad time for him. The UFC just announced that he would fight Daniel Cormier in a rematch for the light heavyweight title at UFC 197 in April.
Jones was cited for driving without a license, registration, and insurance, by a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputy on January 31st. KRQE News 13 was the first to report the news.
Jones has already had a series of run-ins with the law in the past.
In 2011, he was ticketed in Albuquerque in 2011 for driving with a suspended license. In 2012, he was convicted of DWI in New York after he crashed into a pole. In April of 2015, he had a hit and run incident that injured a pregnant women. This crime resulted in the UFC stripping him of the light heavyweight title and suspending him indefinitely.
Jones plead guilty in September to one felony count of leaving the scene of a crash, which resulted in Jones being convicted of a 4th-degree felony. The judge granted Jones a conditional discharge in the case. He will have supervised probation for up to 18 months. The judge ordered Jones to make 72 appearances as part of his probation. The UFC then reinstated him as an active fighter.
Jones is due to appear in traffic court Wednesday morning.
This could affect his fight with Cormier depending on what kind of penalties he gets for these charges.
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