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10/31 12:47 CDT Other women contacted police about previous incidents with
Packers' Josh Jacobs after his arrest
Other women contacted police about previous incidents with Packers' Josh Jacobs
after his arrest
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
As police investigated the battery case involving Green Bay Packers running
back Josh Jacobs following a May altercation with his then-girlfriend, multiple
other women contacted them to detail their own allegations against him.
Those accounts were included in evidence regarding Jacobs' battery case that
the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released Friday night in response to a
public records request. Green Bay TV station NBC 26 first reported the records'
release.
Jacobs pleaded no contest on Sept. 10 to misdemeanor counts of battery and
criminal damage to property. He was arrested May 26, three days after an
incident in which a woman said he threw her to the ground.
It's unclear how the latest allegations will play into the NFL's investigation
into Jacobs. The league placed him on the commissioner's exempt list in August
after charges were filed against him, and that caused Jacobs to miss the
Packers' first six games of the season.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Saturday that the league would review these
allegations as part of its investigation, which has remained open.
Jacobs' lawyers --- David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld and Clarence F.
Duchac III --- issued a statement Saturday on their client's behalf:
"The Brown County District Attorney's office had these uncorroborated, old, and
previously unreported allegations for months. They conducted their own
exhaustive investigation, along with the police department, and the D.A.
determined that only two misdemeanor charges were warranted. They then entered
into a plea agreement with Josh Jacobs. Josh has repeatedly expressed his
remorse and is honoring the terms of the agreement."
The Packers had no immediate comment.
According to the records released Friday, one woman contacted police after
Jacobs' arrest to say she had experienced a similar incident with him around
2023. She later would say the incident actually occurred on Jan. 5, 2022.
The woman said she had communicated with Jacobs for about six months before
spending around 11 hours at his home. The woman said that after she told Jacobs
she hadn't come there for sex, he became angry, slapped her across the face and
told her not to disrespect him.
She said he took her phone and threw it into a swimming pool when she attempted
to leave, and that he grabbed her by the hair, threw her onto a bed, pinned her
down, threw her to the floor and said, "I should kill you right now." She said
Jacobs also spit on her.
The woman said she hadn't previously reported the incident to law enforcement
because she remained friends with Jacobs afterward and was concerned her
allegations wouldn't be believed. The woman said she contacted police this time
because she believed it showed a pattern of behavior similar to the allegations
in the May case.
Another woman told police she had sex with Jacobs in April 2021. The woman said
his condom broke, so she told Jacobs to get tested for sexually transmitted
diseases because they both had been involved with other people.
The woman said Jacobs later removed her from the residence, grabbed her by the
arms and bicep area, pushed her against a wall and threw her belongings out.
She told police that she sustained bruises to her arms and swelling in her rib
area.
Hobart/Lawrence police said they obtained records from that incident indicating
that officers observed "no visible signs of injury, bruising or damage
consistent with a physical altercation."
Another woman said she met Jacobs through social media and that he flew her to
a residence in May 2022. She described an altercation in which Jacobs grabbed
her by the hair, placed his hands on her head and neck, dragged her, scratched
her chest and took her phone after it fell to the floor.
The woman said she got bruises on her arm and scratches to her chest and neck.
She said she didn't report the incident to police because she wasn't a U.S.
citizen at the time and Jacobs told her she could be deported.
Jacobs is a three-time Pro Bowl selection who led the NFL in rushing in 2022
for the Las Vegas Raiders, where he played when the three previous incidents
were alleged to have occurred. He joined the Packers in 2024.
He returned two weeks ago and scored twice in the team's Thursday night win
over the Carolina Panthers, celebrating one of the touchdowns by briefly
placing his hands behind his back. The move drew immediate backlash from
viewers in light of his offseason arrest, but Jacobs said he was modeling his
celebration after a gospel song called "Break Every Chain."
The records released Friday also offered more details of the May 23 incident
that led to Jacobs' arrest. According to the criminal complaint released in
August, the woman told them that Jacobs grabbed her and threw her to the ground
as she was trying to exit a garage door, causing her to hit her head. Police
said Jacobs also took her phone from her while she was on the ground.
The records released Friday noted the woman said that while they were still in
the home, Jacobs lunged at her, pinned her on the bed with his body weight on
her chest and put his hand on her mouth and nose, so that she felt she couldn't
breathe.
She also indicated that she believed she lost consciousness for a brief time
when the confrontation moved to the garage.
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