Port Orange, FL - The former head football coach for Bethune-Cookman University and current coach North Caroline Central University ends up behind bars on three separate charges.
He's 48-year-old Brian Jenkins, who coached the Wildcats from 2010 to 2014 before heading to North Carolina.
Police say he was arrested on Sunday (July 28th), charged with intimidation and depriving the use of 911, criminal mischief and battery.
According to the report, officers were called to a Port Orange address in reference to a domestic disturbance. That's where law enforcement met up with Jenkins and his girlfriend of five years.
The report says that the couple broke up earlier that morning over "infidelity issues."
Jenkins reportedly came to that address, as it's her residence and a place he stays at when he's in town. This time, he came to talk about their break up, money she apparently owed him and what to do with his belongings.
However, according to the report, the conversation eventually came to a point to where the girlfriend didn't want to speak with him anymore and she wanted to leave. That's when she went to the front door to leave but Jenkins told her to stay and that he wanted to make his peace.
The girlfriend then went out of the back door of the home and out of the back gate to leave. But, Jenkins said that he would leave and she didn't have to.
That's when she came back inside.
But, according to Jenkins' narrative, when he went towards the front door, the girlfriend came up behind him and shoved him into the door, before grabbing his wrist in her hand.
Jenkins said that he swung his arm around to make her let go, but when he did he knocked the girlfriend's phone out of her hand. He then began to record using his own phone, because he "did not want to get into trouble."
The girlfriend then called 911 while he walked around with his hands up to show he did not touch her and that he was not going to leave before officers arrived on scene.
But, the girlfriend said that Jenkins actually stood in front of the door as she was trying to leave with his arms out to prevent her from getting out, saying that she needed to hear what he had to say.
That's when she said she went to the back of the home to try and leave through the rear door to get to the gate, but Jenkins put his hand over the locking mechanism to keep her from leaving again, all while saying he wanted to make his peace.
The girlfriend reports that she went back inside and told Jenkins that she was calling the police. As she dialed 911, Jenkins allegedly grabbed the phone out of her hand. She said Jenkins must have hung up the phone as she held it above her head.
She says she struggled to get the phone before Jenkins threw it across the room, hitting the opposite wall.
When she went to check on the phone, she was noticed that she was getting a phone call back from police dispatch due to the 911 disconnect from before. She told dispatch what happened and Port Orange police soon responded.
According to the report, the call notes from dispatch corroborated her story about 911 being called and dropped.
Jenkins was asked how 911 was called and disconnected. He said he didn't know, and that on his phone recording you could hear her talking to dispatch. He thought she only called once according to the narrative.
Officers asked why she would call 911 and then push him in the back, he said he didn't know.
Jenkins started to go over his story again, but this time when he was supposedly pushed he swung his arm around and said "don't push me" before knocking the phone out of her hand. He also said he kept her from leaving because she didn't have shoes and he denied keeping her from leaving from the back of the house.
He also insisted that she did not call 911 the first time and that his recording showed that. But, officers confirmed that a call was made from her phone before being disconnected.
Police say his story still did not explain when 911 was called and disconnected before he started recording on his phone.
Due to the changing of his story, the time of the calls as well as the damage done to the phone, Jenkins was placed under arrest.
And, according to police, because their relationship is domestic in nature Jenkins was charged with depriving the use of 911 and domestic battery when he grabbed the phone out of her hand and criminal mischief for damaging it.
He's currently held in Volusia County Jail on no bond.
