Breaking: A Boston Celtics Important player is facing additional charges related to domestic abuse.

Breaking: A Boston Celtics Important player is facing additional charges related to domestic abuse.

According to authorities, the prosecutors’ examination of evidence, including text messages, led to the filing of the new charges.
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Jabari Bird, a guard for the Boston Celtics, leaves Brighton Municipal Court following his arraignment on Wednesday. Paul D. Ryan and Globe Staff
The Boston Globe, by Travis Andersen and John R. Ellement

January 30, 2019
According to court documents, reserve guard Jabari Bird of the Boston Celtics, who left the team in September after being arrested on suspicion of repeatedly choking his girlfriend, is now facing additional charges in the well-known domestic abuse case.

On Wednesday, he was charged with two additional counts of intimidating witnesses and making threats to commit a crime related to the same incident at Brighton Municipal Court. He entered a not guilty plea and was freed after posting the same $50,000 bail.

Bird was charged with kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a household or family member, and strangulation or suffocation in September when he was first charged. With a not guilty plea, he