Jim Jones Won't Be Not Charged In Airport Fight

Jim Jones won't be a stain on anyone's criminal record no one involved wants to press charges, and cops are backing Jim's version of events the Dipset rapper got into a 2-on-1 tussle on an escalator at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Jones told officers the altercation started when he stood up to collect his belongings from the first class overhead compartment as the plane landed, but before it came to a complete stop. He claims that prompted a fellow passenger, James Dos Santos, to confront him and push him in the chest. Jim says he grabbed Dos Santos' arm, gave him a stern warning and Dos Santos quickly apologized. Jim told cops another guy, Alexander Lekht, also got involved by screaming at him from a different seat. Deputies were apparently called to the gate, but Jim declined to report the incident and headed to baggage claim. Lekht continued to follow and antagonize Jim and attempted to make him flinch with a sudden movement to which Jim didn't react. when they got on the escalator the report says Lekht made a "second jerk motion" at Jim, leading the Harlemite to grab and detain Lekht until deputies could get to the scene after Jim had picked up Lekht and tossed him down the escalator. Jones says Lekht then began swinging wild punches, and he turned around to find Dos Santos also throwing punches at him Another man, 94-year-old James Jackson got caught in the whirlwind and had to be transported to Broward General Hospital for leg pain Cops say Lekht wound up with bloody lacerations from his head meeting the escalator during the brawl, and he also went to the hospital. Jim emerged with purplish bruising underneath his right eye video shows the other guys started everything he wasn't interested in pressing charges.

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