Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones will spend the night in jail, officials said, after a judge ordered him to provide a blood sample related to his alleged behavior after being arrested early Tuesday.
Jones, 33, was combative throughout the booking process at the Hamilton County Jail and had to be placed in "a restraint chair," Hamilton County sheriff's spokesman Mike Robison said in a news release.
Robison said when a female nurse, following normal protocol, tried to examine Jones, he “proceeded to spit on her.”
Among the multiple charges Jones faces is a felony charge of harassment with a bodily substance.
At an arraignment Tuesday, Hamilton County Municipal Judge Richard Bernat ordered Jones to provide the blood sample to test for HIV, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases. The nurse who does that had already left for the day and won't return until Wednesday morning, officials said.
An attorney for Jones told Bernat he “vehemently denies” charges related to an incident at a Downtown hotel.There are witnesses Jones intends to call in his own defense, said public defender Lauren Staley. Jones also intends to hire his own attorney.
Prosecutors say Jones was at the Millennium Hotel Monday night and was “beating on different hotel room doors.” Hotel security came to investigate, and prosecutors say Jones pushed and poked a hotel security employee in the eye.
Cincinnati police were then called.
A police dispatch log shows a 911 call was made at 11:40 p.m. During the call, the log says the phone apparently was dropped and "a lot of…arguing" could be heard.
While being arrested, court documents say Jones was “head-butting” and “kicking” at officers, trying to avoid being placed in a police vehicle.
Cincinnati police brought Jones to the Hamilton County jail at about 12:25 a.m.
In addition to a felony charge of harassment with a bodily substance, he also is charged with assault, disorderly conduct and obstructing police.
Bernat set bonds totaling $37,500.
The cornerback signed a three-year contract prior to this past season which just ended on Sunday against Baltimore. Jones stayed mostly out of trouble of late after a rash of incidents early in his 10-year NFL career.
- July, 2005: Assault and felony vandalism stemming from a nightclub altercation in Nashville, Tenn. Charges were dropped.
- February, 2006: Possession of marijuana, felony count of obstruction and two misdemeanors of obstructing police in Fayetteville, Ga. Jones pleaded no contest to obstructing police and received three years of probation and a $500 fine.
- August, 2006: Disorderly conduct and public intoxication in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Charges were dropped on the condition he stayed out trouble for six months.
- October, 2006: Misdemeanor assault in Nashville, Tenn. Charge dropped because of inconsistent testimony.
- July, 2011: Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in Cincinnati. He pled guilty to the disorderly charge and placed on probation, but resisting arrest was dismissed.
- June, 2013: Assault in Cincinnati. He was found not guilty.
Jones has been charged, but was not arrested, in other incidents.
In June, 2007: Jones is charged with felony coercion for his alleged role in a Feb., 2007 strip club shooting in Las Vegas. In December, 2007, Jones pleaded no contest to a reduced misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct for his role. His sentence of one year probation and community service is stayed until after his testimony.
Those charges led to a civil lawsuit against Jones, and in January, 2015 the Nevada Supreme Court upheld a $12 million judgment against him for his role in injuries caused in the shooting.
In 2013 Jones was charged with disorderly conduct by the Ohio State Highway Patrol and paid out a ticket.
As a guest on Beyond The Stripes on Dec. 20, Jones was asked if it is difficult to turn off the game day persona when out in every day life:
“Well it’s difficult if you don’t know how to handle it. I took me awhile to understand you gotta turn the switch off at a certain point. I used the expression sometimes, like I used to be ‘Pacman Jones’ at the stadium, at home; then you learn like hey, you can only be ‘Pacman Jones’ on Sunday. When you go home you gotta be Adam Jones. When you got into the community you gotta be Adam Jones. To your kids you gotta be daddy and Adam Jones. So it took me a little while to understand the balance and to learn how to turn the switch on and off. I just thank God that I’ve been able to last to have the chance to still learn to turn it on and off. Some guys don’t have the chance and it will be a little too late before they figure out. And I thank God every day for the blessings that I’ve had. “
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