{"id":485362,"date":"2024-07-17T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485362"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T20:27:38","slug":"jon-jones-pleads-not-guilty-about-the-drug-test-incident","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jon-jones-pleads-not-guilty-about-the-drug-test-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones pleads not guilty about the drug test incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones pleaded not guilty today to 2 misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico house in which he was accused of being hostile.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jon Jones plead NOT GUILTY in court today <\/p>\n<p>A judge told him that while released he:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; cannot break any laws<br \/>&#8211; cannot possess any firearms\/dangerous weapons<br \/>&#8211; cannot consume alcohol<br \/>&#8211; cannot consume any illegal drugs<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MMAFighting<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VA2BgTaY8b\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VA2BgTaY8b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OOC MMA (@oocmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oocmma\/status\/1813633256916750758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jon was seated next to his lawyer, and the pleas were entered on his behalf during a virtual hearing. An Albuquerque judge granted the lawyer\u2019s request that the UFC fighter remain free pending trial on charges of assault and interference with communication during his drug test session 4 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC star has pledged to fight the allegations. When the incident 1<sup>st<\/sup> became public, Jones labeled them as untruthful, sharing on social media that he had been taken off guard by what he claimed to be the unprofessional behavior of 1 of the agents and admitted cursing after getting mad.<\/p>\n<p>Jon added that despite that, he didn\u2019t threaten anyone or engage in any form of assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones pleaded not guilty today to 2 misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17494,18148],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[17957,1093],"acf":{"announce":"The UFC star fights the charges against him.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485365,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485362\/revisions\/485365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485362"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485362"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}