2024-01-04 15:03:00
Sexual assault charges against Patrick Mahomes’ brother were dismissed.
Kansas prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed three felony charges related to allegations that Jackson Mahomes, the younger brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, grabbed a woman by the neck and kissed her against her willpower.
Johnson County Deputy Prosecutor Megan Ahsens filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss three counts of aggravated sexual assault.
Jackson Mahomes appeared at a hearing Wednesday and the felony charges were dropped. A fourth charge remains, misdemeanor assault, and Jackson Mahomes has pleaded not guilty to that charge.
Jackson Mahomes, younger brother of Patrick Mahomes, has become a regular presence around the Chiefs. Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images
The court filing cited the woman’s lack of cooperation.
Jackson Mahomes’ attorney, Brandan Davies, said in a statement that his client “has done nothing wrong. We had every confidence that the truth of the matter would eventually be revealed.”
The original charges accused Jackson Mahomes, a 23-year-old social media influencer, of crimes that occurred on February 25 at Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City.
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Investigators said Mahomes pushed a waiter who tried to enter a room where he was with the restaurant’s owner, Aspen Vaughn. After the waiter left, Mahomes grabbed Vaughn by her neck and forcefully kissed her three different times without her consent, prosecutors alleged.
Vaughn told police that Mahomes was a friend of his stepdaughter and had caused problems and had been asked to leave the restaurant in the past.
Vaughn closed the restaurant in August, saying his business was hurt by the publicity associated with the case. She told the Kansas City Star at the time that she endured death threats and harassment and that the restaurant was vandalized in the wake of the charges.
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Tuesday’s court filing said prosecutors received an affidavit from Vaughn’s attorneys indicating she would refuse to testify. The document said prosecutors still planned to move forward with the case, noting that surveillance video captured the encounter.
But the document also said that subpoenas addressed to Vaughn, who is referred to in court documents by his initials, were not served.
“In fact, it has become clear to the State, through conversations with more than one person in contact with her, that AR is actively thwarting attempts to serve her to avoid going to court,” Ahsens wrote.
The misdemeanor battery charge remains because that charge involved allegedly shoving the waiter.
A spokesman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
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