San Jose, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald was arrested early Sunday morning on felony charges of domestic violence.<\/p>\n
McDonald was booked in Santa Clara County jail at 5:30 a.m. PT for “inflicting injury on a spouse or cohabitant,” according to the Santa Clara Department of Corrections. The eighth-year veteran was later released from custody after posting bail.<\/p>\n
The Sacramento Bee reported that McDonald was involved in an altercation with his pregnant fiancee while having a birthday party at his home. According to the paper, the woman showed police bruising on her neck and arms when the officers arrived and McDonald was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n
This news comes days after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell instituted harsher penalties for players and league personnel over domestic violence offenses, a response to criticism over the two-game suspension he handed Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for an altercation with his now-wife in a New Jersey casino back in February.<\/p>\n
The revamped policy calls for a six-week suspension for a first offense while a second offense will result in a lifetime ban. McDonald could face a more severe first-time punishment, however, because the alleged victim is pregnant.<\/p>\n
McDonald, who turns 30 on Tuesday, has started 45 games for San Francisco over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
San Jose, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald was arrested early Sunday morning on felony charges of domestic violence. McDonald was booked in Santa Clara County jail at 5:30 a.m. PT for “inflicting injury on a spouse or cohabitant,” according to the Santa Clara Department of Corrections. The eighth-year veteran was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,9,8],"class_list":["post-22908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22918,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions\/22918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}