Police arrested Raiders outside linebacker Chandler Jones in Las Vegas, according to TMZ. The former All-Pro, who resides on the team’s reserve/non-football illness list amid a strange saga that has transpired this month, remains in custody.
Jones committed two violations of a domestic temporary restraining order, according to Andrew Groover of The Associated Press. The 33-year-old defender was cooperative with authorities, TMZ reports. The arrest occurred at 11pm Thursday, and Jones remains at the Clark County Detention Center. He is expected to be released today, Groover adds.
Jones has not been with the Raiders since his initial social media outburst, which occurred September 5. Since, a slew of social media posts have led to the 11-year veteran moving out of the picture for the Raiders. Most recently, Jones shared Monday night that the Las Vegas Fire Department officials transported him to the hospital “against my will.” The 2022 Raiders free agency addition added that he was transferred to Seven Hills Behavioral Health Hospital last week.
During this run of tirades, Jones has levied extensive criticism at Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler. The known developments in this concerning stretch began with Jones voicing his displeasure about allegedly being locked out of the Raiders’ facility. He then said he did not want to play for the Raiders as long as McDaniels and Ziegler are in charge. The former Patriots and Cardinals standout turned his attention to Mark Davis as well, saying the longtime Raiders owner was holding “a huge secret.”
The Raiders have classified the Jones situation as a private matter, and The Athletic’s Vic Tafur notes the team did not comment on the arrest. Friday’s news comes as personnel around the league have expressed concern about the pass rusher’s well-being. While the Raiders were believed to be open to Jones returning to the team if the situation improves, this week has placed some barriers in his path back to the team.
Perhaps Chandler Jones can set his sights on breaking Aldon Smith’s arrests records.
He is gonna have to get those numbers up.
Something very sad and potentially dangerous is going on with Chandler Jones. I hope he has family and loved one’s nearby to lean in to. Hoping for the best outcome.
His level headed brother Jon will straighten him out
There’s 2 sides to every story, just remember that. I hope he recovers from whatever its going on & lands with another team.
Idiot
Your empathy is off the charts. Here is hoping for your loved one’s sake that you can make your way off the bottom of the human decency level.
Yeah sorry I don’t have sympathy for a pathological liar who is obviously abusive.
The dude said his twitter was hacked after he went on a rant, just admit your mistakes. Making boatloads of money to be so stupid.
If this was AB you’d say he’s off the rails.
Here’s hoping for a loved one’s sake you care as much about them as you idolize murderers, alcoholics, and women abusers
If Jones is having an episode or is undergoing a peak or valley characteristic of a number of mood disorders or mental illness, then he may not know that what he is saying is untrue. Violating a temporary restraining order (the issuance of which can certainly be due to said condition’s side effects) can certainly be part of that. We don’t know what happened, so judging it definitively based off an impression is premature.
I am not, and I want to emphasize this, am NOT saying that Jones is wrong or right in whatever he did. This is not the purpose of this statement. I just want to impart the notion that people who are in crisis (that’s the term for someone experiencing an episode with a mental condition) do not act rationally and it does not have to do with intelligence or lack thereof. Sometimes they have periods of lucidity, sometimes they don’t, and even though there are common themes, the specific circumstances dictate a lot. It’s not right or wrong on their end, because they just don’t perceive reality the way that a rational person does. To them, whatever it is is very real, and the rest of us are irrational or untrustworthy. The only thing that always helps is patience.
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all it’s students” / Hector Berlioz
Yup. Except Josh Johnson.
Is Mark Davis’s ‘huge secret’, that he’s putting chemicals in the players water to make them go insane? Something isn’t quite right with this organization, maybe Chandler Jones is on to something after all.
Um…
I’m just asking questions!
You might be on to something. Alzado and Incognito come to mind and the owner has to be nuts to keep McDaniels around this long.
May be the whereabouts of Al Capone’s vaults or maybe jimmy Hoffa’s remains ?
would love to see this guy in the UFC with his brother
I’ll say this again… If there was anything that wasn’t above board with the way LV has handled this Jones situation the NFLPA would be all over the NFL.
Really seems like Jones is going through a lot right now and let’s hope he’s able to get the proper help before this turns into a tragic situation
Yeah, I admit at first, before it became apparent that Jones is going through something, I thought that McDaniels or management may have had more of a hand in some sort of grievance. I’ll admit that I was wrong, at least by how it looks now.
I don’t know what, if anything, triggered this, and frankly it’s none of my business to know. I just hope that whatever ultimately is best for Jones is what is done, and if it is as it appears, then the Raiders have done well by staying silent publically.
He needs to get over this hurdle like he got over Mac Jones last season
He just accused Josh McDaniels of kiIIing Aaron Hernandez too…