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 on 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 10 September to misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to property. He was arrested on 26 May, three days after an incident in which a woman said he threw her to the ground. It is 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, causing Jacobs to miss the Packers’ first six games of the season. The NFL is still investigating Jacobs over the incident that led to his May arrest, so the league could impose further discipline on the running back. Jacobs’ lawyers – David Z Chesnoff, Richard A Schonfeld and Clarence F Duchac III – issued a statement on 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.” According to the records released on Friday, one woman contacted police after Jacobs’ arrest to say she had experienced a similar incident with him around 2023.
She later said the incident had actually occurred on 5 January 2022. The woman said she had communicated with Jacobs for about six months before spending around 11 hours at his home. She said that after she told Jacobs she had not 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 on to a bed, pinned her down, threw her to the floor and said: “I should kill you right now.” She said Jacobs also spat on her. The woman said she had not previously reported the incident to law enforcement because she remained friends with Jacobs afterward and was concerned her allegations would not be believed. She said she contacted police this time because she believed it showed a pattern of behaviour similar to the allegations in the May case.
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