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Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper was arrested again Thursday night on multiple charges, jail records show, one week after he was previously arrested at his apartment in Parker.<\/p>\n

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Cooper was arrested by the Parker Police Department at 6:17 p.m. and booked at the Douglas County Sheriff\u2019s Office detention facility on a charge of domestic violence and misdemeanor charges of harassment and violation of a protection order, according to online records. A forensic medical exam that confirmed his then-girlfriend was strangled during the June 4 assault also came to light Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are disappointed to learn of Jonathon Cooper\u2019s arrest on Thursday and continue to review this matter,\u201d the Broncos said in a statement provided to The Post.<\/p>\n

Cooper appeared in Douglas County court Friday morning, where Judge Mark Solomon issued a personal recognizance bond of $5,000 for Cooper, after arguments between Cooper\u2019s laywer Harvey Steinberg and Cooper\u2019s former girlfriend\u2019s lawyer Ronald Gainor about whether Cooper violated a protection order.<\/p>\n

Solomon also ordered \u201cno new offenses\u201d for Cooper while on bond, and that he must have prior approval from the court before traveling outside of Colorado. The Broncos are scheduled to play in Atlanta for their first preseason game against the Falcons on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n

Cooper was already facing additional charges of felony assault by strangulation and misdemeanor third-degree assault announced Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, according to online court records. Those charges, along with an initial charge of misdemeanor criminal mischief, stem from a June 4 arrest of Cooper and his then-girlfriend following a physical altercation at Cooper\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n

Cooper\u2019s former girlfriend called police on Thursday and said that Cooper had been knocking on the door of her apartment for \u201cfive to 10 minutes\u201d and had just left.<\/p>\n

She told an officer that Cooper showing up at the apartment made her feel \u201cscared. He had also been texting and calling repeatedly asking if he could see her despite her not responding.<\/p>\n

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While the woman was speaking with an officer, he called her via FaceTime and a social media platform.<\/p>\n

Officers reviewed nearly 20 messages Cooper sent his former girlfriend and also three videos she recorded through the apartment peephole while he was knocking on the door, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

Some of the messages are graphic in nature and Cooper repeatedly asked his girlfriend if he could see her, if he could be with her and if she was scared of the law.<\/p>\n

Both Cooper and his former girlfriend had protection orders that prohibited them from interacting after they were both arrested in the June 4 altercation. Steinberg argued in court Friday that Cooper \u201cdid not have a no-contact order,\u201d and therefore wasn\u2019t prohibited from going to her house and knocking on her door. Steinberg also called police reporting that Cooper\u2019s girlfriend was scared of him as \u201csensationalism\u201d and \u201chyperbole.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s suggested \u2026 in multiple messages that this defendant asked to have sexual contact with (Cooper\u2019s girlfriend) after she was assaulted,\u201d Gainor said in court. \u201cSo for Mr. Steinberg or the record to reflect that this was not offensive conduct flies in the face of these messages.\u201d<\/p>\n

While prosecutors requested an ankle monitor be issued to Cooper in light of how quickly he violated the protection order, Solomon declined to.<\/p>\n

In the woman\u2019s original arrest affidavit, she told police Cooper grabbed and lifted her by the neck and threw her to the ground several times amid an argument after she accused him of infidelity, her original arrest affidavit reads. According to an updated arrest affidavit obtained by The Post Friday morning, the woman was taken to the Anschutz Medical Center in Aurora after that arrest for a forensic nurse examination.<\/p>\n

A forensic nurse who evaluated her reported to police that she had experienced \u201cstrangulation with hypoxia and traumatic brain injury,\u201d the affidavit reads.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRegarding seriously bodily injury, it is my medical opinion that the above \u2026 patient experienced physical injury which, either at the time of the actual injury or at a later time involved\u2026 (a) substantial risk of death (and) a substantial risk of protracted loss or impairment of the function of any part or organ on the body,\u201d the nurse wrote, as the affidavit details.<\/p>\n

Cooper and his then-girlfriend presented substantially differing accounts of subsequent events to police, but both confirmed that Cooper had bitten and damaged her phone after he asked her to leave his apartment. The woman told police, as detailed in the updated affidavit, that Cooper shoved her into the ground after he picked her up by the arms and she asked him to \u201cstop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper\u2019s then-girlfriend also told police that she couldn\u2019t breathe while Cooper had his hand around her neck.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started to cry and he pressed, like, further \u2013 cause he had me held up against the wall \u2013 he just pressed further and then dropped me and just started screaming at me that it was my fault and that I, like, caused this, and that I was like, a (expletive),\u201d she told police, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

Cooper originally denied any physical altercation to a responding officer, the affidavit reads. After the officer eventually asked Cooper if he grabbed his girlfriend\u2019s neck, Cooper \u201cnodded his head up and down, coupled with an mm-hmm,\u201d and said he grabbed it \u201caggressive,\u201d the affidavit reads.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Cooper posted a Bible verse on his Instagram story, with several subsequent written apologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realize posting a bible. Quote (sic) right after something very serious happens does not just mean everything is okay,\u201d Cooper wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI apologize to my family to my friends and my community \u2026 And so many others,\u201d he wrote in another story.<\/p>\n

Cooper was seen at the Broncos\u2019 final practice of organized team activities on Thursday morning, and has been with the team this week following his initial arrest last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the league has done a good job of kind of coming in and really taking over that responsibility,\u201d Broncos head coach Sean Payton said earlier Thursday, asked about the handling of Cooper\u2019s earlier arrest. \u201cWe had a long visit with Coop, and now the process plays out. The league obviously will be very much involved in that. We\u2019ll stay abreast, but much like you all. I think that\u2019s where it\u2019s at. We just go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NFL previously confirmed to The Post that it was in contact with the Broncos around the original arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to monitor all developments in the matter which remains under review of the personal conduct policy,\u201d NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy told The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n

According to that personal conduct policy, players found guilty of criminal assault via NFL investigation could face a baseline suspension of up to six games. That number can range higher or lower depending on aggravating or mitigating factors the league reviews around the incident.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Cooper is playing the 2026 season in Denver on the second year of a four-year, $60 million contract extension signed in November 2024. He finished second on the Broncos in sacks in both 2024 (10.5) and 2025 (8.0).<\/p>\n

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