Jon Jones is facing legal problems once again. The former UFC light heavyweight champion was cited for driving without a license, registration, and insurance, by a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputy on January 31st. KRQE NEws 13 in Albuquerque, NM confirmed the news.
District attorney Kayla Anderson issued the following statement to MMAJunkie about the incident:
His (judgment and sentence), Conditional Discharge, has a box that can be checked if a special condition of probation is imposed prohibiting the defendant from driving without a license. That box was not checked, so there is no special condition of probation forbidding driving without a license.
However, all defendants being supervised on probation are required generally to not violate any laws. We have not received at this time a formal report of a violation of probation. It does not appear that Mr. Jones is in custody at (the Metropolitan Detention Center).
Our office has the discretion to pursue a revocation of probation if an alleged incident arises to the level of a substantial violation of probation. Our office makes that determination after we have examined all the facts surrounding the incident. As of today, we do not have enough information about the 1/31/16 incident to make that determination, but we will examine the matter.
Generally, if we decide to pursue a probation revocation, and a judge determines that there has been a substantial violation of probation, it is up to our office whether we seek to revoke a conditional discharge, and it is up to the judge to ultimately decide if a conditional discharge will be revoked and sentence imposed. Those decisions are made on a case to case basis. The court can also impose a wide range of sanctions, some of which do not necessarily require the loss of a conditional discharge.
Jones was stripped of the light heavyweight championship and suspended by the UFC back in April after fleeing a hit and run car accident. In September he plead to the 4th-degree felony charge of fleeing the scene, and was issued 18 months of supervised probation.
