Bengals' Jermaine Burton allegedly involved in domestic dispute - ESPN

CINCINNATI — Bengals wide receiver Jermaine Burton was allegedly involved in a domestic dispute where he choked and hit his ex-girlfriend, according to an incident report filed by police and obtained by ESPN on Thursday.

On Dec. 30, Burton allegedly broke into the home of a woman he was seeing hours after the two had been out drinking at 1 a.m., according to an emergency call made to Cincinnati police at 8 a.m.

The woman, 19, told police that Burton choked her in the hallway of her apartment complex. She also said Burton broke into her residence, grabbed a knife from her dishwasher, held it to his neck and threatened to kill himself. She told police that Burton then broke her phone and left.

According to the police incident report, obtained by ESPN through an open records request, the woman declined to file charges. Burton's agent did not respond to an attempt by ESPN for a comment.

In the call to the police dispatcher, the woman told officers that it was not an isolated incident.

«This is the second time he's broken my phone in the past month,» the woman said. «He broke my phone and hit me and he left.»

Burton, a rookie, did not travel with the team to its regular-season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers because of coach's decision, which coach Zac Taylor confirmed after the game.

«We will continue to evaluate as we gather additional details and will have no further comment at this time,» the Bengals said in a statement given to ESPN on Thursday.

The woman told police they had been seeing each other since September. However, she alleged Burton had been «pretty abusive.» In her call to police, she said the incident on Dec. 30 stemmed because she «wouldn't show him an old Tweet.»

She also told police that on Dec. 21,