Rashaun Jones, a former University of Miami Hurricanes player waiting for a retrial in the 2006 murder of UM Canes player Bryan Pata, appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Wednesday morning.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies re-arrested Jones, 40, at 9 a.m. on Tuesday at the Metrowest Detention Center, where he was held without bond for the first-degree murder case, records show.
A Miami-Dade corrections officer reported that he and his K-9 found “a half sheet, and 17 individually torn sheets with suspected K2” on March 27, 2024, at Metrowest, according to a MDSO deputy’s report.
Jones, a jail inmate since Aug. 26, 2021, had the “half sheet of paper” in his shirt sleeve and “the individually torn sheets of paper” in his waistband, according to the MDSO deputy’s arrest report.
On Tuesday, a detective “downloaded the test results” from the MDSO’s crime laboratory analytical section drug unit and found that the papers had tested positive for ADB-BUTINACA, a potent synthetic cannabinoid, according to the deputy’s report.
Jones faced a new third-degree felony charge of introducing, possessing, or controlling a controlled substance in a jail or correctional facility, according to county court records.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda was set to preside over the new case.
Pata’s murder case
On June 17, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle filed a motion asking the judge for an order to “preserve” communications between Jones’s defense attorneys, Attorney Jeremy McLymont, and any media outlets, and “requiring” the defense to “provide aforementioned documents for an in-camera review.
A hearing to discuss the motions is at 10:30 a.m. on July 6, according to court records.
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