Patriots scandals through the years: From deflategate to playing with murderers, Jabrill Peppers' arrest is just the latest New England controversy

If you inquire immoderate American shot instrumentality extracurricular of the six states successful the acold northeast of the country, the New England Patriots are the embodiment of ungraded successful the NFL.

That was particularly existent successful the years of the Patriots dynasty from 2001-2019 - erstwhile the squad won 17 part titles, 9 AFC titles, and six Super Bowls.

Despite their success, the squad often ran afoul of different teams, the league and - occasionally - the instrumentality itself. 

The caller apprehension of Jabrill Peppers this past Saturday is conscionable different illustration of that - with the squad skipper and beardown information charged with aggregate counts aft an altercation with his girlfriend.

Here, DailyMail.com takes a look astatine immoderate of the scandals that the Patriots person been a portion of since 2000.

Jabrill Peppers

At astir 4:00am connected the greeting of October 5, 2024, Patriots information Jabrill Peppers was celebrating his 29th day successful the Boston suburb of Braintree connected the South Shore.

According to constabulary records obtained by DailyMail.com, the information allegedly got convulsive with his on-off girlfriend aft she received a telephone telephone during enactment that helium 'didn't like'.

Peppers is past alleged to person demanded that she permission his flat earlier helium pushed her caput against the partition with his hands astir her cervix - each portion some of them were inactive naked.

According to tribunal documents, the Patriots squad skipper was past alleged to person pushed her down a acceptable of stairs earlier tossing her handbag and compartment telephone down soon after.

Authorities noted scratches connected the woman's kneecaps and that her forehead country was reddish erstwhile they arrived astatine the scene.

Peppers pled not blameworthy during his arraignment astatine Quincy District Court connected Monday greeting - wherever helium was ordered to enactment distant from the victim.

Both Peppers and the alleged unfortunate person fixed antithetic accounts of the events of that evening.

While Peppers didn't talk portion leaving court, his lawyer told reporters: 'He's not going to remark now, but what I said successful the tribunal room, I'll repeat. We person grounds that wholly contradicts the alleged victim's communicative and I expect my lawsuit to beryllium afloat exonerated.'

When asked whether it was video evidence, helium added: 'Yes, and different grounds arsenic well.'

Kayshon Boutte

Back successful January 2024, Patriots receiver Kayshon Boutte was arrested aft Louisiana authorities constabulary accidental he created an online betting relationship nether a mendacious sanction and placed thousands of amerciable bets as a assemblage student.

That includes 17 connected assemblage shot games - with six of those games involving LSU. He besides stake connected himself successful 1 game.

These bets violated authorities instrumentality against wagers being placed by a 'prohibited player'.

But prosecutors decided to not prosecute a trial after Boutte enactment himself into a gambling consciousness mitigation program.

Authorities accidental that Boutte did not stake against himself oregon his squad and that his actions did not origin fiscal losses for different people. 

Aaron Hernandez

Arguably the astir infamous Patriots subordinate of each time, choky extremity Aaron Hernandez was a prima successful New England until his idiosyncratic actions brought it each to a screeching end.

Hernandez was a prima retired of the University of Florida - wherever helium won the 2008 National Championship - and was picked by the Patriots successful the 4th circular of the 2010 NFL Draft.

Alongside Rob Gronkowski, Hernandez formed 1 of the astir ascendant choky extremity duos successful the past of the league - starring New England to Super Bowl XLVI.

But successful the 2013 offseason, Hernandez was arrested and charged with the execution of semi-professional shot subordinate Odin Lloyd - starring to his contiguous merchandise from the Patriots. 

In the midst of his proceedings for Lloyd's murder, Hernandez was besides indicted for a treble homicide successful 2012 of Daniel de Abreu and Safrio Furtado.

While helium was acquitted successful 2017 of the treble homicide, Hernandez was recovered blameworthy of Lloyd's execution successful 2015 and was sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole. 

Days aft the acquittal of the double-homicide, Hernandez was recovered dormant successful his cell. His decease was ruled a suicide. 

Hernandez's encephalon was released to researchers astatine Boston University - which recovered that helium was suffering from signifier 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). 

Deflategate

Ask a Patriots instrumentality and they'll archer you that Deflategate whitethorn person been overblown and a witch hunt. Other fans of the NFL volition conscionable accidental it's yet different illustration of the Patriots utilizing unfair advantages.

The ungraded centers astir the alleged deliberate deflation of footballs utilized successful the Patriots ascendant triumph implicit the Indianapolis Colts successful the 2014 AFC Championship game.

After an interception by the Colts, the squad notified NFL Gameday Operations that determination mightiness beryllium an contented with the ostentation level of the Patriots' footballs. 

Officials inspecting the Patriots' footballs recovered that 11 of the 12 balls were 2 pounds-per-square-inch (PSI) beneath the minimum amount. Other reports said that lone 1 shot was 2 PSI.

This substance was corrected - with the balls re-inflated astatine halftime to close levels - and the Patriots went connected to people 28 unanswered points successful the 2nd fractional to triumph 45-7.

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick denied immoderate wrongdoing some earlier and aft a league probe recovered that it was lone 'more probable than not' that the squad had intentionally deflated the balls. 

Nevertheless, Brady was suspended for 4 games, the Patriots were fined $1million and forfeited 2 draught picks (including a first-rounder successful 2016).

Brady appealed the suspension, which was vacated by a US District Court. An entreaty of that determination was past overturned again by a US Court of Appeals - which forced Brady to service the suspension successful the archetypal 4 games of the 2016 season.

Brady and the Patriots yet got the past laughter - going 3-1 without their starting backmost and yet ran each the mode to Super Bowl LI. 

There, they completed the top single-game comeback successful NFL past aft being down arsenic overmuch arsenic 25 points to triumph a 5th Super Bowl title. 

Even years aft the ungraded reached a conclusion, statement astir whether oregon not the Patriots intentionally deflated footballs rages on. 

'Spygate'

Before Deflategate, determination was different '-gate' that the Patriots were astatine the halfway of.

Back successful 2007, the Patriots were accused by the New York Jets of videotaping their antiaircraft signals from an on-field determination which violated NFL rules.

The contented was not the taping of signals itself, but the information that it was done successful a spot that wasn't allowed. 

Belichick apologized for the actions of his staff, saying that his mentation of the regularisation differed from what was written. 

Belichick believed that if footage collected wasn't utilized during the game, that the enactment of collecting said video was legal. He was besides adamant that helium ne'er utilized video to summation an vantage portion a crippled was underway, thing commissioner Roger Goodell agreed with.

The Patriots were heavy punished for their actions - with Belichick being fined $500,000, the largest good imposed connected a manager successful NFL history. The squad was separately fined $250k and had its first-round draught prime successful 2008 stripped away.

In the aftermath of that ailment from the Jets, an autarkic probe by Congress was called for by Pennsylvania legislator Arlen Specter - but nary probe came about.

Additionally, further accusations of different times that the Patriots filmed successful amerciable areas - including successful the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough earlier Super Bowl XXXVI - came astir but nary further punishments were levied.

Tuck Rule Game

The genesis of the Patriots scandals (at slightest successful the 2000's) came with an incidental that wasn't adjacent successful their control.

In the 4th fourth of the 2001 AFC Divisional playoff game, Patriots backmost Tom Brady was sacked by Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson and mislaid the shot successful the process - which was initially ruled arsenic a fumble.

When the officials reviewed the play, they determined that contempt Brady appearing to halt his passing question and 'tucking' the shot backmost into his body, it was an incomplete walk and not a fumble nether since-changed NFL rules. 

The Patriots were capable to support possession arsenic the telephone was overturned and they were capable to march into tract extremity scope - with kicker Adam Vinatieri knocking done a game-tying tract extremity to unit overtime.

In OT, Vinatieri was called into work again - knocking done a 23-yard spot changeable to triumph the game.

Thanks to this, New England would spell connected to triumph Super Bowl XXXVI and started the Patriots' dynasty.