Jackson Mahomes was sentenced to six months of probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge this week.
The 23-year-old brother of Super Bowl running back Patrick Mahomes was sentenced after entering a plea Thursday, according to online court records, and two months after three of his four total charges related to his arrest last May were dismissed.
The influencer was initially charged with felony sexual assault last year after security cameras captured him at Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas in February 2023 allegedly pushing an employee, grabbing the owner by the neck and forcefully kissing her three times.
Those three sexual-assault charges were dismissed, according to online court records, and Mahomes was sentenced Thursday in Johnson County District Court, Kansas, where he appeared via video conference, the Associated Press reported.
“Jackson is grateful for the support of family and friends over the past year. Jackson pleaded no contest to one count of simple battery and received six months of unsupervised probation,” Mahomes’ attorney Brandan Davies told PEOPLE on Saturday.
“Jackson simply wanted the case over and to move on with his life, the matter is now closed and we will not be making any further statements,” he added.
Jackson Mahomes appears at the Kansas City Chiefs game on November 20, 2023.
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Restaurant owner Aspen Vaughn previously said Kansas City Star 2023 that the scene of the incident was closed in part due to the negative publicity that resulted from Jackson’s case. Then she discovered that Aspens Restaurant and Lounge had been vandalized and that she had received death threats.
Vaughn said Star that Mahomes, who was a friend of her stepdaughter (an employee of the location), went into the restaurant’s basement office with five friends and “forcefully kissed me out of nowhere.”
“And I tell him, I push him away, I say ‘What are you doing?’ and then he did it two more times,” Vaughn said last year. “Where was the last time I pushed him away and I see on the cameras that someone was in front of the office door and I yelled at them to come help him because he’s big and massive.”
Surveillance video shared by TMZ showed Mahomes seemingly kissing the owner as she appeared to push him away. The Star also reported that Mahomes allegedly pushed a young waiter out of the room.
The AP reported in early January that sexual assault charges against Mahomes were dismissed because Vaughn refused to testify against him. Davies told PEOPLE after the three charges were dropped that his client “didn’t do anything wrong.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
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