I wish I had a dollar for every time some mixed martial artist chased down a criminal and leg-locked him until authorities arrived. Because then I would have one dollar. Maybe I should set my sights a little higher.

Jones was doing what has become his ritual before a fight … he was meditating at a park in Patterson, NJ when he heard a woman scream, “I’ve been robbed!”

Jones began chasing the man for a good distance. hen the fighter caught up with the alleged robber, he knocked the guy’s legs out from under him, then placed him in a figure-four leg lock until Patterson cops arrived.

–TMZ.

And the fight? Jones dispatched Mauricio “Shogun” Rua via TKO in the third round of UFC 128 in Newark to win UFC’s light-heavyweight title. It’s not a legal deputy’s law enforcement star, but it’ll do.