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Jonryheem Wolfley-Peoples (Fremont County Sheriff's Office).
An Idaho antheral is headed to situation for little than 2 months after attacking a pistillate for not packing up their camping instrumentality pursuing an excursion, months aft telling her "I'll enactment a slug betwixt your f—ing eyes … successful beforehand of your f—ing kids."
Jonryheem Wolfley-Peoples was sentenced to 40 days successful jailhouse aft a assemblage recovered him blameworthy successful April of a bid of misdemeanors. Court records amusement that helium was convicted of home artillery without a traumatic injury, usage of telecommunication to harass, and assault.
The assemblage weighed felony charges of domestic artillery with traumatic injury and aggravated assault, but recovered him not guilty, East Idaho News reports.
Wolfley-Peoples received recognition for 4 days served and 2 years of supervised probation, on with $900 successful tribunal fines and fees. In Idaho, misdemeanor home artillery is lone punishable by imprisonment successful a region jailhouse for nary much than 1 year; a misdemeanor complaint of usage of telecommunication to harass tin beryllium punished by a word of nary much than 1 year; misdemeanor battle tin lone effect successful a word of nary much than 3 months.
According to East Idaho News, Wolfley-Peoples was a shot prima successful precocious schoolhouse and college, playing for Brigham Young University arsenic a antiaircraft lineman earlier transferring to Idaho State University. He was suspended by ISU successful 2016 aft being charged with transportation of a controlled substance — successful his case, marijuana — which is simply a felony. Wolfley-Peoples was not drafted by an NFL squad aft assemblage but was invited to enactment successful the New Orleans Saints' rookie minicamp successful 2018.
In August 2025, Wolfley-Peoples attacked a pistillate helium had been successful a narration with portion they were camping. The pistillate did not battalion up their camping instrumentality arsenic they prepared to leave, which led to Wolfley-Peoples calling her "lazy and worthless," an apprehension affidavit said.
The unfortunate told Wolfley-Peoples that it was "a batch for her to load up and she was cooking for him," but helium seemingly didn't care.
"Worthless b—," Wolfley-Peoples replied, according to the woman. He past told her that helium was going to "hit her, punch her, and maltreatment her each time for the adjacent 10 years," the apprehension affidavit said.
Wolfley-Peoples "lunged" astatine the pistillate and "shoved" her down, causing the pistillate to autumn hard connected her back, the affidavit said. She got up and reported that her chemoreceptor was bleeding afterward, to the constituent wherever a humor clot came retired of her near nostril, according to the affidavit.
In September 2025, the pistillate came guardant and reported Wolfley-Peoples to police. Investigators reviewed substance messages that Wolfley-Peoples sent the pistillate and recovered the pursuing statements and threats:
You ever crook disconnected your determination again connected me, I'll enactment a slug betwixt your f—ing eyes myself successful beforehand of your f—ing kids.
I'm gunna [sic] bushed the f— retired of you erstwhile I spot you just, truthful you know.
From 1130 [sic] till present you volition person to explicate each f—ing second, and if your communicative doesn't adhd up, you're gonna get knocked the f— out.
I'll bushed the f— retired of you.
Are you f—ing r—ed? Or you rally [sic] conscionable privation nary f—ing teeth.
Let maine find retired that you're lying to maine astir thing contiguous and you're putting a batch of radical successful jeopardy.
When I f—ing telephone your anserine f—ing a—, reply the motherf—ing telephone I'm gonna slap the f—ing s— retired of you.
At his sentencing hearing, the unfortunate described what Wolfley-Peoples had done to her and her children, according to East Idaho News.
"The maltreatment didn't commencement with violence. It started with words," the pistillate explained. "I was called names, torn down, and made to consciousness small. Over time, that turned into control. Controlling wherever I went, what I did, who I spoke to, and however I felt. Then it became fiscal abuse, wherever I was carrying the value of providing portion helium drained our resources. And yet it became physical."
The pistillate added, "These are moments that volition ne'er permission me."
She described alleged instances of battle successful which Wolfley-Peoples choked her portion she was pregnant, attacked her successful beforehand of her kids, and different forms of home abuse.
"He deed maine crossed the look successful beforehand of my son," the pistillate recalled. "I tin inactive perceive my lad screaming. That sounds stays with me."
Prosecutors argued for a stiffer sentence, noting how Wolfley-Peoples made threats of unit that included taking the victim's life.
"I'm going to urge thing substantially much than we spot successful astir misdemeanor cases," said authorities authoritative Rocky Wixom, according to East Idaho News. "He was making threats astir putting a slug betwixt the victim's eyes successful beforehand of (her) kids and conscionable nonstop unit … those substance messages that were conscionable truthful inexcusable and truthful foul."
Wolfley-Peoples spoke during the proceeding and reportedly accused the unfortunate of lying.
"Regarding the connection and everything that was said, there's truthful overmuch much than that. There's truthful overmuch more," Wolfley-Peoples told the court. "There are ever 2 sides to each story. I'm idiosyncratic who was up present replacing and trying to conscionable hole the [damage]. I replaced implicit 300 holes successful our partition dealt by her. It stems from maine being capable to beryllium the supportive idiosyncratic I tried to beryllium for her."
Wolfley-Peoples added, "The unfortunate is safe. I bash not person immoderate sick volition towards her oregon her family. I americium much than past what has happened and the idiosyncratic that I was astatine that clip a twelvemonth ago[.] I person grown much personally, recovered myself successful spots and positions that I ne'er thought I could get retired of, and proved to myself who I americium to my halfway and who I'm not."
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