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.
Cooper was arrested by the Parker Police Department at 6:17 p.m. and booked at the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office detention facility on a charge of domestic violence and misdemeanor charges of harassment and violation of a protection order, according to online records.
“We are disappointed to learn of Jonathon Cooper’s arrest on Thursday and continue to review this matter,” the Broncos said in a statement provided to The Post.
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 girlfriend following a physical altercation at Cooper’s apartment.
As detailed in separate arrest affidavits around that June 4 arrest, Cooper and his girlfriend got into an argument after she accused him of cheating. Cooper and his girlfriend presented differing accounts of subsequent events to police, but both confirmed that Cooper had bitten and damaged his girlfriend’s phone after he asked her to leave his apartment.
Cooper’s girlfriend told police that he’d grabbed and lifted her by the neck and thrown her to the ground several times, her arrest affidavit reads. The arresting officer wrote in that original affidavit that they didn’t believe the marks on her neck and scratches on her arms matched Cooper’s girlfriend’s description of a large man lifting and throwing her to the ground.
On Saturday, Cooper posted a Bible verse on his Instagram story, with several subsequent written apologies.
“I realize posting a bible. Quote (sic) right after something very serious happens does not just mean everything is okay,” Cooper wrote.
“I apologize to my family to my friends and my community … And so many others,” he wrote in another story.
Cooper was seen at the Broncos’ final practice of organized team activities on Thursday morning, and has been with the team this week following his initial arrest last week.
“I think the league has done a good job of kind of coming in and really taking over that responsibility,” Broncos head coach Sean Payton said earlier Thursday, asked about the handling of Cooper’s earlier arrest. “We had a long visit with Coop, and now the process plays out. The league obviously will be very much involved in that. We’ll stay abreast, but much like you all. I think thatap where itap at. We just go from there.”
The NFL previously confirmed to The Post that it was in contact with the Broncos around the original arrest.
“We continue to monitor all developments in the matter which remains under review of the personal conduct policy,” NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy told The Post in a statement.
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.
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).
This is a developing story.
