JUNE 20: Jones posted bail, valued at $30K during his arraignment, per ESPN’s Mike Reiss (Twitter link). The 25-year-old pleaded not guilty on all counts, and attorney Rosemary C. Scapicchio said (via the Globe’s John Ellement and Sean Cotter) he had “no intention of bringing any guns onto an airport.” Jones’ next court date is set for August 18. In the time leading up to that point, it will be worth monitoring what developments, if any, take place with respect to his tenure in New England.
JUNE 19: Jones will be arraigned Tuesday, according to the Boston Globe’s Travis Andersen and Nicole Yang. If convicted and sentenced consecutively on each of the counts, Jones could face more than 30 years in prison, James Borghesani, a spokesperson for Suffolk (Mass.) District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office, told the Globe. This outcome is unlikely, Andersen and Yang add, but the second-year cornerback’s NFL future might be in doubt.
JUNE 17: Patriots cornerback Jack Jones was arrested last night at Boston Logan International Airport after trying to bring two loaded firearms on a plane, according to Lindsey Thorpe of Boston 25 News.
Per Thorpe, Jones is facing charges of “possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport, possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card, unlawful possession of a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, and possession of a large-capacity feeding device.” Jones was released from jail on $50K bail, and he’s set to be arraigned next week.
“We have been notified that Jack Jones was arrested at Logan Airport earlier today. We are in the process of gathering more information and will not be commenting further at this time,” the Patriots said in a statement (via Thorpe).
Jones had a tumultuous college career. He was booted off the USC squad for academic reasons, leading to him playing at Moorpark College, a California junior college, for the 2018 campaign. That season, Jones was arrested following an incident at a Panda Express, and he served 45 days of house arrest after pleading guilty to commercial burglary, which is a second-degree misdemeanor.
He spent the following three years at Arizona State and managed to rehabilitate his NFL stock. He ended up being selected in the fourth round of the 2022 draft by the Patriots, and he quickly showed that he was capable of being more than a depth piece in the secondary. Jones got into 13 games last season (two starts), finishing with 30 tackles and two interceptions (including a pick-six on Aaron Rodgers). Pro Football Focus ultimately graded him 17th among 118 qualifying cornerbacks.
However, things weren’t all positive in New England. Jones was hit with a two-game suspension to end the 2022 campaign after a violation of unspecified team rules. This spring, Bill Belichick noted that the suspension was in the past, and Jones has emerged as one of the top cornerbacks on New England’s depth chart.
Considering the lack of patience Belichick and co. have for off-the-field issues (coupled with Jones’ prior suspension), there’s a chance that the player may simply be done in New England following yesterday’s arrest. Jones isn’t owed a whole lot of money on his fourth-round rookie contract, although the Patriots would be left with more dead cap than cap savings for the 2023 campaign if they decided to cut the cornerback.
If Jones is cut or faces a suspension, the Patriots may need to lean on some inexperienced depth at cornerback. First-round rookie Christian Gonzalez should lead the depth chart, and the team also has veteran Jonathan Jones at nickelback. 2022 third-round pick Marcus Jones showed out as a special teamer during his rookie campaign, but it remains to be seen if he can contribute as a full-time starter on defense. He would likely compete with Shaun Wade for the leftover snaps at CB2, with rookies Ameer Speed (sixth round) and Isaiah Bolden (seventh round) also potentially getting looks.
Was that wrong?
Should I not have done that?
Yes
I think it’s pretty clear that this dude just isn’t very bright and can’t be trusted to stay out of trouble. Another victim of the gun culture that pervades and perverts American society. How brain dead do you have to be to bring a loaded weapon anywhere near an airport in this day and age? I hope he gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He needs to be made an example of.
“Guns don’t kill people, the government does.” -Dale Gribble
Victim of the gun culture? I guess that’s one way of saying it.
Ya he’s prob a NRA lifetime member ducks unlimited too
When you’ve been raised, led or indoctrinated to believe in something that is wrong are you not a victim? I look at all those young gang members out there as victims. At the same time, they are absolutely responsible for their actions because you can’t just use….I was led astray to believe this…..as an excuse.
That’s gang culture, not gun culture. Sportsmen bring their rifles on airplanes all the time, the way you are supposed to do it.
No excuse what so ever.
How gd stupid is this guy?
His parents raise a complete idiot??
10 year olds know to not take a gun to the airport.
His family should be ashamed of how stupid he is.
Let’s hope this Darwin award winner hasn’t passed his amazing genetics on to a child.
Did I mention he has to be stupid????
A Panda Express incident ?????? Good lord……..
He’s so stupid you basically committed a hate crime with this comment.
Clearly the woke mind virus is trying to cancel this Patriot for exercising his 2nd Amendment right to wave guns around anywhere and everywhere whenever he’s feeling insecure.
He was waving guns around? I didn’t see that in the article
I’m not very bright, but I’m fairly certain it was a joke.
I think he confused him with Ja Morant.
That’s what happens when you’re only 5’9”
Ja does it because he only weighs a buck fifty soaking wet.
Ja Morant does it because he only weighs a buck fifty soaking wet.
Ja Morant does it because he only weighs a buck fifty soaking wet.
He was planning on taking pictures on the plane so he could use them for his Christmas card. I hear that’s a very popular theme
He’s done in New England I’m thinking
Somehow, this time I think that he violated specified team rules.
I guess Jack Jones wasn’t satisfied with just being a Time Pirate.
They don’t call it the National Felony League for nothin
I truly do not understand the stupidity of some of these players today! Being a Lions fan, we are dealing with the Jameson Williams gambling BS, But it is not the NFL’s fault, as I have read lately. These players go through rookie symposiums where it is made BLATENTLY OBVIOUS to not gamble anywhere an NFL property. And what does numbnuts do? And this moron bringing a few loaded to the tilt weapons to an AIRPORT??? Unbelievable!
Phew… he’s just being arranged. That’s got to be better than being arraigned.
It’s the Patriot way… lol. Just following in the footsteps of fellow Patriot great, Aaron Hernandez
Lol these comments. Gun cloture, blah blah blah. I don’t know what’s more stupid, gun culture or the idiots like Jones that are just ignorant to their actions. There are millions of responsible gun owners who own them for hunting, for protection, or just for the hobby of sport shooting that don’t take their guns on planes in this manor, don’t flash them in clubs, and don’t cause other stupid issues. If you look at all the gun issues, they are caused by such a small minority of people who have guns, most of which have them illegally or aren’t the owners of them. But the news and government would have you believe it’s a huge amount of people causing the problems. Gun violence is an issue, but our gun culture is created by the news and government. The issues we have are mostly from either uneducated idiots, people who come from bad backgrounds, gangs, or people who have mental issues. And yet everyones solution is to blame or try and take guns away from the people who don’t fit in any of those categories. You can take every gun away and you don’t think gangs, for example, are still going to have them, get them illegally from Mexico and other places, what a joke. Oh, but it will still cut down on violence. No it won’t! If they are the only ones with guns they will have free reign to do more bad stuff. But the mentally ill won’t have access you say! Did you know that the same day as one of the school shootings we had in the US a crazy guy in a no gun county rampaged in a school and stabbed like 23 kids. Gun culture my ass, it’s a violence culture. The news and government creates what everyone views as our gun culture by only reporting on the negative stories and never reporting on the positive stories like where a concealed carry owner stopped a crime, etc. Every time there is a gun story, it is on every station for hours. Did you know you could have a gang member shoot at 4 other members of another gang in a park or mall and it’s just a gang shooting and it is what it is, but if it happens on a weekend on the outside sidewalk of an empty school it is now classified as a school shooting and adds to the tally. Everything about our gun culture is so messed up because of so much misinformation. Yes, without a doubt, idiots like Jones and Ja Morant don’t help matters, but if you want to help change our gun culture, instead of trying to paint it in a negative light, which is all they do, and then attack the responsible people, how about start by doing the ONE THING that would make a HUGE difference. When there is a mass shooting, DO NOT report the name or show a picture of the shooter. That is what they want. One of their primary motivations is recognition and to be remembered, and what happens, the stupid news and government makes them the face of it for weeks, if not forever. Don’t give them the satisfaction and the attention they want. This will never happen because the news and government have an end goal and they want to paint guns in the worst light possible, but they could report on the same story, the same person without ever showing their face or name and don’t. If they would stick to this, it would deter a lot of these shooters and gun violence would immediately improve as far as those large scale National stories. Gun culture would improve, as everything has a ripple effect. Right now, as gun culture is perceived with all the bad press, it makes these idiots like Jones and Ja think it’s cool to be swinging around their guns acting all hard. But less gun violence changes gun perception, etc. I am sure this is all a bunch of rambling, but hopefully my point came together, sorry if it didn’t. If you got to the end of this, I tip my hat to you! Lol
If he had “no intention of bringing any guns onto an airport,” why did he bring guns to an airport?