GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Attorneys representing Green Bay Packers’ running back Josh Jacobs have released a new statement addressing recent allegations from three women against Jacobs.
The statement by Jacobs’ attorneys David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld, and Clarence F. Duchac III to Green Bay Packers’ beat writer for The Athletic Matt Schneidman on Jacobs’ behalf reads:
Last week the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department released its case file to media. The file includes summaries of three telephone interviews describing events in 2021 and 2022. Josh Jacobs denies all three accounts and has a substantial body of tangible evidence to back up his assertions.
The police department’s released file contains only phone interviews, taken years after the fact, with no additional investigation, save for an acknowledgement that Josh did nothing wrong. Josh was not given an opportunity to present evidence to Hobart-Lawrence in response to the uncorroborated report, primarily because Hobart-Lawrence took no action related to the unsupported and stale allegations.
One of these three women made a claim to the NFL, which reviewed it and decided no action was warranted. Josh has kept evidence that supports his accounts and the NFL’s decision. Nothing in the released file indicates that any such evidence was used or even sought. Indeed, the police report did not even present any of this information.
Another woman made a claim in 2021, but only after Josh called the Las Vegas police to his home to report the woman for misconduct. A police report was written that day, which effectively undermined her claims. No further action was taken by any authority after she was removed from Josh’s home.
Josh denies any physical altercation with the third woman. She first contacted Josh and asked to visit. She came to Las Vegas and stayed at his home. Another person was present in the house during part of her stay. She stayed there overnight and left the following evening — on her own, in a car she ordered herself. The receipt for that ride is in the police file the department released, and it is consistent with Josh’s account of how the visit ended, not hers.
Josh took responsibility for what happened in May. He entered into an agreement with prosecutors for two misdemeanors, and he is meeting the court’s requirements.
The three accounts are old, are hearsay, and easily disproven, yet released to the media by police without any investigation to determine whether they were accurate or contradicted by evidence. Josh is answering them in detail because of the character assassination that is occurring, unfairly threatening his career.
–David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld, and Clarence F. Duchac III
Jacobs pleaded no contest Sept. 10 to misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to property. Jacobs was arrested May 26, three days after an incident in which a woman said he threw her to the ground.
According to records that were released Friday night, one woman contacted police after Jacobs’ arrest to say she had experience 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 about 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 that “I should kill you right now.” She said Jacobs also spit on her.
The woman said that 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 that 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 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 that Jacobs told her she could be deported.
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.
Jacobs has played two games with the Packers since being removed from the commissioner’s exempt list, which had prevented him from playing or practicing with the team. The NFL placed him on that 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 the league would review the new allegations as part of its investigation, which has remained open.
The Hobart-Lawrence Police Department is denying records requests for access to video of the domestic incident involving Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs and a former girlfriend, although police have released video from the day Jacobs was arrested, which was three days after the incident.
