A pro wrestler was arrested on domestic violence charges this week after his girlfriend left a desperate note begging for help in the restroom of a Florida sandwich shop.
It was the third time the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office had been called on 34-year-old Jordan Williams (Jayden Steele on an independent wrestling circuit), WPMI reported.
A sandwich maker found the note in the Jersey Mike’s restroom shortly after Williams and his girlfriend left the establishment on Tuesday.
“She was like, ‘Please help me. I’m at this address in Navarre. I need you to call the police and do a wellness check,’” Eleanor Coffee told WPMI about the note she found.
Deputies responded and identified Williams as the suspect using “surveillance footage, prior case records, and witness interviews, the sheriff’s office said. The executed a search warrant at the nearby home in Navarre, where the found the woman who wrote the note.
“She detailed repeated assaults, threats involving weapons, and being held in isolation by Williams for a span of several months,” the sheriff’s office said. “Deputies observed visible injuries, and the victim was transported by EMS to a local hospital for treatment of suspected broken bones and other trauma.”
Williams was charged with five domestice violence counts — aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, battery, battery by strangulation, and a misdemeanor battery.
Chief Deputy Randy Tifft told the WPMI that Williams was ordered held without bond.
“Anybody who would do that to another woman, he don’t need to be walking around free in our community,” he said.
Williams returns to court next week.
