Other women contacted police about previous incidents with Packers’ Josh Jacobs after his arrest

As police investigated the battery case involving Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs following a May altercation with his then-girlfriend, multiple other women contacted them to detail their own allegations against him.

Those accounts were included in evidence regarding Jacobs’ battery case that the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released Friday night in response to a public records request. Green Bay TV station NBC 26 first reported the records’ release.

Jacobs pleaded no contest on Sept. 10 to misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to property. He was arrested May 26, three days after an incident in which a woman said he threw her to the ground.

It’s unclear how the latest allegations will play into the NFL’s investigation into Jacobs. The league placed him on the commissioner’s exempt 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 Saturday that the league would review these allegations as part of its investigation, which has remained open.

Jacobs’ lawyers — David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld and Clarence F. Duchac III — issued a statement Saturday on their client’s behalf:

“The Brown County…

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