[4] In Las Vegas, he performed "Make it Easy on Yourself" with Richie Law and the judges advanced both to the next round.
On March 13, 2012, it was announced that Jones would be disqualified from the competition after failing to disclose that he had been previously arrested on two separate occasions, one of them being a violent crime.
A clip of his rehearsal of "Somewhere Out There", was shown after his removal from the show and would have been his performance that night and a studio version was released on iTunes.
As a result of his disqualification, Jones was not allowed to have any further involvement with the show and could not participate in the live finale with the other finalists.
[11] A police official in a New Jersey town claimed he was the target of two arrest warrants said that the case wasn't big enough to merit going after him,[12] and that for the show "to expose, embarrass and interrogate a young man without an attorney in front of 40 million viewers was an outrage".