UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones was arrested Saturday on allegations that he assaulted and threatened to kill a drug testing agent, police in New Mexico stated.

The case was prompted by a grievance from a drug-test pattern assortment employee, Crystal Martinez, who stated she and a colleague had gone to Jones’ Albuquerque house at 4 a.m. on March 30 to gather urine for a shock drug check on behalf of their employer, Drug Free Sport Worldwide, which is contracted by the UFC.

The UFC, Drug Free Sport Worldwide and Jones’ supervisor didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Saturday night.

Talking in an announcement posted on his Instagram account, Jones stated one of many pattern collectors concerned within the incident final month behaved “unprofessionally.” He admitted being annoyed, however stated the encounter “ended pleasant and amicably.”

“Nothing threatening in any respect,” he stated.

Martinez stated Jones was sad with the gathering course of and was initially unable to supply urine, prompting her to counsel a blood check, in accordance with a police report.

The suggestion, she stated, made him much more indignant, the report stated.

Jones allegedly threatened to sue the 2 pattern collectors, the report states, citing Martinez. She believed the fighter may need been drunk, she stated, in accordance with the report.

Amid the chance that UFC fines may kick in if urine for a drug check wasn’t produced on the spot, Jones walked away with pattern assortment colleague Jerome Romero and returned with a pattern, in accordance with the report.

At one level, Jones picked up Martinez’s cellphone off a floor and began recording the interplay, the girl instructed police. Officer Miguel Andres Stanley stated in his portion of the report that he reviewed the video on Martinez’s cellphone purportedly recorded by Jones.

It captured the blended martial arts star saying, “Right here f—— Jerome and his girlfriend in my storage,” in accordance with the police report.

Martinez stated the fighter bought his face close to hers and stated, “Why you f—— individuals come so early? Are you aware what occurs to individuals who come to my home? They find yourself useless.”

She requested for her cellphone to be returned, to no avail, the report stated. The lady stated she feared for her security and needed to terminate the session but additionally feared that may set off Jones as a result of it might result in UFC fines.

When Jones walked off with Romero to supply a pattern, Martinez stated she took the chance to get her cellphone, which she stated Jones had put down, in accordance with the report. Martinez texted her boss in regards to the scenario, the report stated.

Romero returned from gathering a pattern from Jones trying frightened and pale, she stated, per the report.

“Mr. Jones was not very glad to see them there and his habits at occasions was hostile,” the report says Romero instructed officers.

Afterward, Martinez stated she instructed superiors she needed to push for expenses to be filed towards the fighter, at the same time as she stated her supervisor discouraged it and stated she ought to anticipate the UFC to reply.

Jones known as Martinez a liar, stated he by no means threatened her or her co-worker, and stated he believed she was sad due to offensive language he utilized in his storage as they tried to gather urine, in accordance the police report.

Jones was interviewed on Saturday by cellphone, it stated.

He additionally expressed dismay with Romero, admitting that he threatened to sue him for bringing his accomplice and having her wait outdoors in a automobile, saying he believed this was a violation of a federal affected person privateness legislation, the report states.

Jones stated he by no means spoke of individuals dealing with demise in the event that they arrive at his house too early, however police quoted his recollection of what he instructed Martinez: “Inform everybody at headquarters to not ship individuals to my house so early as a result of it could possibly be a harmful setting.”

Jones instructed police he apologized for any profanity, and he famous to police that he gave Martinez a high-five, in accordance with the report. “We exchanged a excessive 5 and a hug,” Jones stated on Instagram, talking of each pattern assortment staff.

Jones was issued a summons to look in court docket primarily based on allegations of assault and interfering with communications. The summons doubled as his arrest, and it does not seem Jones was taken into custody or booked.

It isn’t the primary time Jones has been in hassle with the legislation.

In 2015, he was stripped of his mild heavyweight championship following his arrest in reference to a hit-and-run crash that injured a pregnant lady. In 2021, he was arrested in Las Vegas on a home battery cost for allegedly grabbing his fiancée by her hair. As a part of a plea deal within the case, he pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor property injury cost for damaging a police automobile throughout his arrest.

Jones has additionally been suspended for doping. In 2018, he was handed a 15-month suspension for his second violation of the UFC’s anti-doping coverage.

He grew to become UFC heavyweight champion in March 2023, and has a document of 27 wins, one loss, zero attracts and one no contest, which signifies that neither competitor could be declared the winner.

In late December, UFC introduced that Drug Free Sport Worldwide would conduct “no-notice pattern collections” for its athlete drug checks underneath a brand new anti-doping coverage that started Dec. 31.

In an announcement on the time, the league described Drug Free Sport Worldwide as “a worldwide chief within the anti-doping business” that does comparable pattern collections for Main League Baseball, the NFL, NASCAR, the PGA Tour and the NCAA.