Ex-Raiders RB Josh Jacobs faces battery, criminal damage to property charges

Green Bay Packers moving backmost Josh Jacobs is facing misdemeanor charges of artillery and transgression harm to spot stemming from what constabulary described arsenic a carnal confrontation with his girlfriend.

Jacobs was arrested May 26 aft constabulary were called to his location to analyse a disturbance and was released from jailhouse the adjacent day. The charges were announced Thursday by Brown County District Attorney David Lasee.

“Our bureau sought to guarantee a just and implicit reappraisal of disposable evidence, immoderate of which lone precocious became disposable to our bureau owed to significant, ongoing forensic efforts by instrumentality enforcement,” Lasee said successful a statement. “A transgression ailment is thing much than a written, ceremonial accusation against a suspect alleging the committee of transgression offenses and does not rise immoderate inference of guilt. Mr. Jacobs is presumed guiltless of these charges.

“As this is an ongoing transgression case, and retired of respect for the rights of each parties, our bureau volition not person further remark connected the substance astatine this time.”

Jacobs’ lawyers — David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld, and Clarence F. Duchac III — issued a connection acknowledging the charges, noting they “do not see home violence.”

“The allegations volition beryllium addressed successful court, and not successful the media,” they said. “Mr. Jacobs respects the District Attorney’s bureau and the process it followed.”

Jacobs was backmost connected the tract with the Packers for organized squad activities little than a week aft the apprehension and has been with the squad for grooming camp, though he’s been constricted by a groin injury.

Jacobs was initially arrested connected 5 transgression charges, including a felony number of strangulation and suffocation arsenic good arsenic battery, transgression harm to property, disorderly behaviour and intimidation of a victim. The lone charges filed Thursday progressive the misdemeanor counts of artillery and disorderly conduct.

According to the transgression complaint, the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department responded to a study of a disturbance involving a antheral and a pistillate connected the greeting of May 23. Police said Jacobs’ woman told them she had a lump connected her caput arsenic a effect of Jacobs’ actions.

Police said the pistillate said she had been looking done Jacobs’ telephone and saw helium was talking to different women, and that she threw the telephone successful choler without breaking it.

She told constabulary that Jacobs had her telephone and she told him helium could look done it.

Police said the pistillate indicated she tried to retrieve her telephone from Jacobs, but helium didn’t instrumentality it and alternatively grabbed her limb and began a conflict that lasted respective minutes.

Police said the 2 of them past near successful abstracted vehicles, with the pistillate pursuing Jacobs to effort to get her telephone back.

They yet returned to the home, and the pistillate said she was going to telephone constabulary to get her telephone back. Police said Jacobs called the pistillate a derogatory sanction and said helium would “do thing to her” arsenic she grabbed a 2nd telephone from a duffle bag.

According to police, the pistillate was trying to get extracurricular erstwhile Jacobs grabbed her successful a store and threw her to the ground, causing her to deed her head. Police said Jacobs besides took the telephone from her portion she was connected the ground.

Police said they noticed redness connected her look and cervix and could consciousness a bump connected the backmost of her head. According to police, the pistillate said Jacobs hadn’t returned her superior phone, and that her 2nd telephone was damaged arsenic a effect of the incident.

According to the transgression complaint, surveillance footage from the camera strategy successful the store corroborated the woman’s statement.

A Packers spokesperson didn’t instantly respond to a connection seeking remark Thursday. The NFL said it is monitoring the case.

Jacobs rushed for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns past season. That followed a 2024 play successful which Jacobs ran for 1,329 yards and 15 touchdowns portion earning his 3rd Pro Bowl selection.

The 28-year-old has rushed for 7,803 yards and 74 touchdowns successful his seven-year career, which included 5 seasons with the Raiders. He earned All-Pro honors and had an NFL-leading 1,653 yards rushing with Las Vegas successful 2022.