Former Ohio State linebacker Jonathon Cooper was arrested again on Thursday night on multiple charges that he violated a protection order filed against him earlier this week.
Cooper was first arrested on June 4 on domestic violence charges, and now adds new charges of harassment from repeated phone calls and another for the violation of a protection order.
The arrest affidavit says that Cooper allegedly sent 20 messages and made two unanswered phone calls to his girlfriend on June 11 before going to her apartment and knocking on her door before leaving when she called the police.
“We are disappointed to learn of Jonathon Cooper’s arrest on Thursday and continue to review this matter,” the Broncos said in a statement.
New charges were also added after Cooper’s initial arrest, which included a felony charge of second-degree assault by strangulation. In a hospital exam for Cooper’s girlfriend, a nurse wrote that she experienced a “substantial risk of death” due to her injury suffered, or had a substantial risk of injury, including the possibility of a traumatic brain injury.
The report from the nurse differed from the original arrest affidavit, which stated that the marks on Cooper’s girlfriend’s neck were not consistent with an assault, although the officer recommended a nurse examination.
Cooper’s trial was set to begin on July 22, and there is now a July 14 motions hearing for his more recent arrest.
