Xavier Worthy's attorneys release statement after Chiefs star's arrest on family violence charge

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy was arrested successful Texas Friday for an alleged assault, online jailhouse records showed. 

Worthy, a first-round prime successful past year's NFL Draft, was booked by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office connected an battle charge. Williamson County includes parts of Austin, wherever Worthy roseate to stardom during his clip with the Texas Longhorns.

The charges allege Worthy assaulted a household oregon household member, restricting the alleged victim's breathing. Under Texas law, restricting someone's breathing means "intentionally, knowingly oregon recklessly impeding the mean breathing oregon circulation of the humor of the idiosyncratic by applying unit to the person’s pharynx oregon cervix oregon by blocking the person’s chemoreceptor oregon mouth."

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Xavier Worthy's mugshot (Williamson County Sheriff's Office/IMAGN)

Also, successful accordance with the laws of the state, the complaint is simply a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years successful prison. Jail records showed Worthy had not yet posted enslaved by Saturday morning. The records did not person immoderate details of the arrest.

Shortly aft quality of the apprehension surfaced, attorneys Chip Lewis and Sam Bassett issued a connection connected Worthy’s behalf.

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"We are alert of the allegation that led to Mr. Worthy’s arrest," the statement, obtained by The Associated Press, said. "We are moving with instrumentality enforcement successful Williamson County to guarantee they person the payment of the totality of circumstances that led to this allegation."

The lawyers argued the "complainant" refused to permission Worthy's location contempt galore requests. Worthy's representatives besides claimed the alleged unfortunate attempted to extort the NFL prima and described the allegation made against their lawsuit arsenic "baseless."

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy against the Philadelphia Eagles successful the Super Bowl astatine Caesars Superdome.  (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

"The complainant was asked aggregate times implicit the past 2 weeks to vacate Mr. Worthy’s residence upon find of her infidelity, which a backstage researcher has video grounds of. She has refused to vacate the residence and made a fig of extortive efforts anterior to resorting to this baseless allegation against Mr. Worthy." 

According to the statement, Worthy's spot was damaged and helium sustained bodily harm. The Chiefs' receiver besides informed authorities that helium was not successful favour of pressing charges, according to the statement.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy runs against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the archetypal fractional Dec. 25, 2024, successful Pittsburgh.  (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

"The complainant further destroyed a country successful the residence, scratched Mr. Worthy’s look and ripped retired parts of his hair, which determination is photographic grounds of. Mr. Worthy told instrumentality enforcement astatine the clip of the incidental that helium did not privation to property charges against the complainant.

"We volition proceed to cooperate with Williamson County authorities arsenic we person afloat religion their thorough probe volition enactment Mr. Worthy’s innocence."

The Chiefs besides sent a connection to Fox New Digital, saying, "We are alert and gathering information."

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Worthy finished his rookie NFL season with 638 receiving yards and six touchdowns. He besides scored 3 rushing touchdowns. The 21-year-old scored 2 touchdowns during the Chiefs' 40-22 nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles successful past month's Super Bowl.

Fox News' Paulina Dedaj and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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