BRAINTREE, Mass. — Patriots captain Jabrill Peppers was arrested over the weekend on assault, strangulation and different costs following a disturbance at a house, police mentioned Monday.
Peppers, 29, was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Quincy District Court docket on the costs, which additionally embrace assault and battery with a harmful weapon and possession of a Class “B” substance believed to be cocaine, in keeping with a police information launch.
He was arrested early Saturday.
Braintree police mentioned they have been known as to a house for an altercation between two folks. One individual was handled on the residence, they mentioned.
It wasn’t instantly clear if Peppers has a lawyer for the costs. A cellphone quantity for him couldn’t be discovered.
Coach Jerod Mayo, on a press name Monday, mentioned the workforce continues to be gathering data on Peppers’ arrest and can go from there. The state of affairs has been addressed with the workforce and Peppers might be allowed within the Patriots’ services for now.
“We don’t know sufficient to say he shouldn’t be within the constructing,” Mayo mentioned.
The Patriots signed Peppers, a security in his third season with the workforce, to an extension over the summer season. Peppers was initially drafted by Cleveland in 2017 and spent two seasons with the Browns earlier than enjoying for the New York Giants for 3 seasons.
Peppers, who’s coping with a shoulder harm, did not play Sunday within the Patriots 15-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
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