Yahoo Sports has obtained a police report from October involving a domestic violence incident with Reds closer Aroldis Chapman and his girlfriend. According to the report, Chapman's girlfriend found something on his phone she was not happy about and the two started arguing during a family party. Chapman's girlfriend said he choked her and shoved her against the wall in the movie theater in his Davie, Florida, home. They had to be separated by a family member, and his girlfriend ran out of the house and hid in the bushes while she called police. Chapman went to his car, punched the window, and grabbed his gun from the glove compartment. After locking himself in the garage, he fired seven shots into the concrete wall; another shot went through the window."More than a dozen" police officers showed up to Chapman's home and interviewed several people including Chapman's girlfriend, Chapman, and Chapman's driver, who all gave differing stories:The incident started, Chapman's girlfriend told police, after she went into a bathroom of Chapman's 10,000-square-foot-plus house and "found something in his phone that she did not like," according to the report. Chapman, his girlfriend told police, then took the phone from her, the report said. They went to the movie theater inside of Chapman's home, where "he had pushed her against the wall," according to the report, and "that Chapman had 'choked' her by placing his hands around her neck, but did not prevent her from breathing at any time." Police did not observe "injuries or even redness anywhere on her neck or chest," the report said.Chapman said he used his index finger and middle finger and "poked his girlfriend on the left shoulder and told her not to talk to him like that," and that his girlfriend fell to the ground yelling. Chapman's driver told police that after leaving the theater, Chapman's girlfriend came back and tackled him to the ground. Four days after the incident, Assistant State Attorney Marcie Zaccor said there was insufficient evidence to charge Chapman with simple battery because of the conflicting stories, lack of cooperation, and lack of physical injuries.The Reds have been trying to trade Chapman for some time now and appeared to have a deal in place with the Los Angeles Dodgers until news of the incident came to light. However, Reds general manager Walt Jocketty told ESPN's Buster Olney that this was not what held up the trade; they just could not get the deal done in time before finding out about it in "the last 24 hours." Jocketty also said the deal is not necessarily dead—the teams are just trying to decide how they want to proceed.The Red Sox were also exploring a trade for Chapman in November and decided to look elsewhere when they discovered this incident during a background check.Major League Baseball told Yahoo that they would be investigating this as it falls under the new domestic violence policy.
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