KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson Mahomes, the brother of East Texas native and Super Bowl-winning quarterback Patrick Mahomes, will likely avoid jail time after being found guilty of misdemeanor battery in connection with a February 2023 incident at a Kansas restaurant.
According to CBS affiliate KCTV, Mahomes pleaded no contest on Thursday to the charge and was sentenced to 120 days in jail and six months probation. However, the judge suspended the jail sentence as long as Mahomes follows the terms of his probation.
In May 2023, Mahomes was arrested for aggravated sexual battery in Johnson County, Kansas. The arrest was connected to an incident that allegedly occurred Saturday, Feb. 25, at Aspen Restaurant Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas.
The Kansas City Star reported the eatery's owner, Aspen Vaughn, said she knows Mahomes as he is friends with her stepdaughter. She reportedly told the paper Mahomes and five friends showed up at the restaurant around 9:30 p.m. Mahomes and his friends allegedly went to the employee office downstairs and repeatedly pushed a 19-year-old waiter who wanted to get in the office to get his water bottle.
CBS News reported, citing the Kansas City Star, Mahomes and his entourage went into the upstairs VIP room where Vaughn confronted them after smelling marijuana coming from the room they were in.
"Mahomes later asked to speak with Vaughn privately about the shoving incident, at which point he allegedly grabbed her by her neck in her office and kissed her at least twice without her consent," CBS News reported citing the Kansas City Star. "The grab was with enough force that it left a faint bruise on Vaughn's neck."
Video of the alleged event circulated on social media sites like TikTok and Twitter.
CBS News reported Vaughn believed Mahomes was drunk during the encounter.
In an interview with the Kansas City Star, Vaughn stated she was in shock.
"Like you're a child and he was trying to say 'we should be a power couple, and I'm like 'clearly you're out of your mind right now'," CBS News reports citing the Kansas City Star.
Vaughn closed the restaurant in August 2024, saying her business suffered from the publicity associated with the case. She told the Kansas City Star at the time that she endured death threats and harassment and the restaurant was vandalized in the aftermath of the charges.
In January 2024, prosecutors in Kansas asked the judge to drop the three felony charges related to the incident. The court filing cited a lack of cooperation from the alleged victim.