Patrick Mahomes’ brother Jackson’s sexual battery charge has been dropped
Prosecutors dropped three misdemeanor charges Patrick Mahomes‘ brother, Jackson Mahomes.
Johnson County Assistant District Attorney Megan Ahsens filed a motion on Tuesday, Jan. 2, to dismiss Jackson’s three counts of aggravated sexual battery. The 23-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday, January 3 and the misdemeanor charge was officially dismissed.
The Associated press reports that the court cited a lack of cooperation from the alleged victim Aspen Vaughn, who has refused to testify, as the reason for the dismissal. Prosecutors noted in a filing that they planned to move forward with the case and alleged that surveillance video captured the encounter. According to Ahsens, the accuser is “actively thwarting efforts to serve her” with subpoenas in an attempt to avoid appearing in court.
Jackson’s lawyer Brandan Davisstressed in a statement to FOX 4 KC that his client “did nothing wrong,” adding, “We were confident that the truth about the case would eventually come to light.”
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Jackson still faces a battery charge, to which he pleaded not guilty.
In March 2023, news broke that Jackson was under investigation for assault after Vaughn, the owner of Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas, claimed he “forcibly kissed” her at her establishment in February 2023. Jackson allegedly became aggressive toward two staff members. , as he pushed a waiter who tried to enter a room where Jackson was with Vaughn.
“I went into our office downstairs, where the employees are in the staff room, and he is downstairs, for what reason I don’t know,” the waiter claimed to the employee. Kansas City star in March 2023. “And I’m trying to go to the office, and he says push me out… And he says, ‘No, go away, go away.'”
Vaughn alleged that Jackson made three separate advances on her without her consent.
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“He forcibly kissed me out of nowhere, and I tell him and push him away and say, ‘What are you doing?’” she told the outlet. “And then he did it two more times, the last time I pushed him away, and I can see on the cameras that there was someone standing outside the office door, and I yelled for them to come help, because he is big. and enormous.”
Vaughn claimed Jackson grabbed her by the neck after trying to talk to her privately about the incident. Jackson’s attorney denied the allegations in a March 2023 statement, claiming there was “substantial evidence refuting Jackson’s accuser’s claims, including the statements of several witnesses.”
Jackson was officially arrested on four charges related to the alleged altercation in May 2023, with his bail set at $100,000. Months later, Vaughn closed her restaurant and told the newspaper Kansas City star that she faced death threats and intimidation and that the establishment was destroyed in the aftermath of the legal drama.
Patrick, 28, spoke about his brother’s arrest during a press conference in May 2023, telling reporters: “It’s kind of a personal matter that I’m going to keep to myself.”