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Pelicans Center Jaxson Hayes Charged With Domestic Violence, Battery Against Police

Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes was charged with 12 misdemeanor counts last week, including two counts of domestic battery, one count of resisting arrest and one count of battery against a police officer, according to court records obtained by ESPN.

The charges stem from a July dispute at Hayes’s Los Angeles home.

Among the other charges filed are three counts of inflicting corporal injury to a spouse, one count of false imprisonment, three counts of vandalism and one count of aggravated trespassing, per court records obtained by ESPN.

Hayes was arrested in the early morning of July 28 after his then girlfriend's cousin called 911.