Inside the Josh Jacobs Police File

By Facts News Group Staff

Hobart-Lawrence police records detail the May 23 incident, the recovered home video and accounts from other women. Jacobs pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage to property and denies the other accounts.

The Hobart-Lawrence Police Department has released body camera video of Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs being taken into custody on May 26, 2026, three days after a domestic incident at his Hobart, Wisconsin, home.

Body cam video released in the Josh Jacobs case.

What the video shows

The footage shows officers stopping a vehicle on Trout Creek Road. Jacobs, 28, steps out of the front passenger seat, is handcuffed and searched beside a squad car, and is placed in the back seat. In the video, Jacobs tells officers his attorneys have his phone because his legal team had been preparing for him to turn himself in. The arresting lieutenant's report says Jacobs was arrested without incident and taken to the Brown County Jail, where a 72-hour no-contact order was explained to him.

The video shows the arrest, not the May 23 incident. The department has withheld video of that incident, citing ongoing civil proceedings, FOX 11 reported.

What police say happened May 23

According to the Hobart-Lawrence Police case report, a 911 call came in at 8:37 a.m. with yelling, screaming and the sound of things being thrown before the line went open and then disconnected. Dispatch logs show that at 8:52 a.m. a neighbor reported a woman said she had been assaulted, and at 8:56 a.m. the neighbor asked for EMS.

A neighbor's doorbell camera recorded a woman asking, "Can someone call 911 for me?" On the recording she says her boyfriend "put his hands on her" and broke her phone, and adds, "I'm next door, I'm Josh's girlfriend," according to the report.

Jacobs' then-girlfriend told officers that an argument started after she looked through his phone. She told police he restrained her, kept her phone from her, grabbed her by the neck in the garage and threw her to the concrete floor, where she hit her head and believes she blacked out. She also told police a phone was thrown at her and hit her lower left abdomen. She was taken to HSHS St. Mary's Hospital. Officers wrote that they saw red marks on both sides of her neck, and the report includes photos of bruising on her arm and shin.

A man who lived at the home told officers he did not see or hear a physical fight.

The home video system

Police obtained a second search warrant for the home's video recorder and doorbell camera. A forensic analyst wrote that video from before May 25 had been deleted and that he believed the recorder had been "reset, erased, or reformatted." He recovered clips from May 23, which had no audio and no interior cameras. The investigator wrote that the recovered video is consistent with the 911 timeline.

The report also says Jacobs' attorney, Clarence Duchac III, had five videos from that morning that were never provided to police, and that he declined to answer questions about the phone.

Police referred charges including felony strangulation and suffocation, battery, disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and intimidation of a victim to the Brown County District Attorney's Office.

How the case ended

Jacobs was released from jail on May 27 after District Attorney David Lasee said his office was not ready to make a charging decision, NFL.com reported. On Aug. 27, the DA's office filed a criminal complaint charging Jacobs with two offenses, according to the office's media release.

On Sept. 10, Jacobs pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage to property. Judge Marc Hammer convicted him of battery and fined him $1,000. The property charge received a 12-month deferred judgment that can be dismissed if he meets conditions including no contact with the victim, counseling and restitution, ABC News and FOX6 reported. The strangulation count referred by police was not part of the plea.

"I fully understand the seriousness of the situation and I take full responsibility," Jacobs told the court.

Other allegations

The released report includes phone interviews with women who contacted police after the May arrest. Jacobs has not been charged in connection with any of their accounts, and he denies them.

One woman told police Jacobs slapped her, spit on her, grabbed her hair, pinned her down and grabbed her throat while saying, "I should kill you right now." She also said he took her phone and told her he had thrown it in a pool.

Another woman described an April 2021 incident in which she said Jacobs slammed her into a wall. Records from another police department dated April 11, 2021, also describe her being slammed into a wall.

Jacobs' attorneys, David Chesnoff, Richard Schonfeld and Clarence Duchac III, said in a statement that he denies "all three accounts," calling them old, hearsay and "easily disproven," and said the file contains "only phone interviews, taken years after the fact," the New York Post reported. They said one claim was reviewed by the NFL, which took no action. The NFL said it will review the allegations as part of its investigation, which remains open.

Sources

• Hobart-Lawrence Police Department case report and dispatch log
• Brown County DA media release, Aug. 27, 2026
• FOX 11
• New York Post
• NFL.com
• ABC News
• FOX6 Milwaukee