Patriots Star Receiver Stefon Diggs Faces Strangulation and Assault Charges

The New England Patriots' superstar wide receiver, Stefon Diggs, is facing serious felony charges, according to a motion hearing in Dedham District Court on Tuesday.

via: NBC News

Star New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs is accused of slapping his live-in private chef and choking her until "she had trouble breathing," a newly released police report revealed Tuesday.

Mila Adams told police that on Dec. 2, she and Diggs had been trading texts about money she claims Diggs owes her and that when he "entered her unlocked bedroom" at his home outside Boston, their argument turned violent, according to a Dedham Police Department report filed Monday.

"She alleges that the male then smacked her across the face," the report says.

Diggs has denied the allegations.

Adams, who went to the police Dec. 16, said in the report that when she tried to resist, "the male then tried to choke her using the crook of his elbow around her neck" and she feared she would black out.

When she tried to pry his arm off her, Adams said, he "tightened his grip" before he suddenly threw her on a bed, according to the report.

"He said something to the effect of 'Thought so,'" Adams told officers, the report says.

According to the police report, Adams said that when she told Diggs "she still hadn't been paid," he responded "lies" and walked out. She told police that Diggs had hired her in July to cook for him for the entire NFL season and that he owed her at least a month's pay, the report says.

Diggs, 32, who played a key role in the meteoric rise of Pro Bowl quarterback Drake Maye and the Patriots' winning season, was charged with felony strangulation and assault and battery, according to Dedham District Court records.

The incident is alleged to have happened a day after New England beat the New York Giants, 33-15, on "Monday Night Football."

Adams told police she went to stay with a friend after the alleged incident and returned to Diggs' home Dec. 9 to collect her belongings. She said that when she texted Diggs about the money, he referred her to an assistant, who told her Diggs wanted her to sign a nondisclosure agreement, according to the police report.

"ADAMS did not sign any such document," the police report says.

Diggs "categorically denies" all the allegations, his attorney said in a statement.

"The timing and motivation for making the allegations is crystal clear: they are the direct result of an employee-employer financial dispute that was not resolved to the employee’s satisfaction," the statement said. "Stefon looks forward to establishing the truth in a court of law.”