Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler has been charged with three misdemeanors for allegedly attacking a man in a parking lot last month.
Fowler has been charged with first degree misdemeanor battery, criminal mischief and petty theft. He could face up to a year in jail if convicted of all three charges.
Fowler is accused of getting into a physical altercation with a man who criticized his driving at an apartment complex. After the former No. 3 overall pick hit the man and knocked his glasses off, he allegedly grabbed a grocery bag full of liquor that the victim had just purchased and threw it into a nearby pond.
“I just wanted to let people know and everybody know that’s not me as a person, I’m a better person than that and it won’t happen again,”Fowler said at the start of training camp last month. “Like I told (executive vice president) Tom (Coughlin), ‘I’m very sorry.’ I told him that I apologize and I can’t make the organization look like that and put us in situations like that because that’s not us, that’s not how we are as a team, and that’s not how we are as an organization.”
This isn’t the first time Fowler has been in legal trouble. He was arrested on misdemeanor assault and resisting arrest charges in Miami Beach in March 2016, per Miami-Dade County Court records. He eventually entered a diversion program and the case was closed in December.
