Former Chicago White Sox pitcher and Atlantic Coast baseball coach Joel Davis has been arrested again on charges involving domestic battery.
Former Atlantic Coast High baseball coach Joel Davis is in the Duval County jail after being charged Wednesday with three misdemeanor counts of domestic battery, violating a protective injunction and resisting an officer without violence.
Davis, 55, has been electronically monitored since Feb. 15 for two other counts of violating a protective order against his estranged wife. Wednesday he was booked into jail shortly before 2 p.m. and was listed as being held in pretrial detention. He has a court appearance scheduled for Thursday at 9 a.m.
The Times-Union has requested the arrest report on the latest charges. Details have not been released.
Davis’ attorney, Lee Lockett, declined comment, telling the Times-Union via email that he didn’t get a chance to review the arrest and booking reports until late Wednesday afternoon and had not yet spoken with his client on the new charges.
Davis has previously been charged with violating injunctions for protection orders issued on behalf of his current wife, who filed for divorce on Jan. 3 after five years of marriage, and another woman eight years ago. His current wife filed for the protective order four days after filing for divorce.
According to the Jan. 7 injunction, his estranged wife said she moved out of their Mastin Cove Road home in September after several instances of violence. She said Davis has been stalking her and calling her multiple times, including 10 times on Dec. 18. She said he came to her apartment multiple times daily and pounded on her door.
She said in the injunction that Davis has threatened to kill her and has a history of domestic violence with his two previous wives.
Court records show another woman filed an injunction for protection against him in 2012. She said she locked herself in a bedroom after he made a comment, and he hit the door so hard that it popped open. He began to yell and she told him it was the last straw. He told her she was not going to get out of there with his kids.
She said they had discussed divorce, but “he told me that if I ever tried to leave him that he would kill me and bury me so deep that no one would find me,” she said in the document.
Davis was released as the Atlantic Coast baseball coach after his arrest of February. At the time, Duval County Public Schools spokeswoman Laureen Ricks said Davis “remains employed at the school but was released from coaching baseball due to personal and health concerns including the arrest.”
Davis had been at Atlantic Coast since 2010.
He played high school ball at Sandalwood, where he was the Times-Union’s player of the year in 1982 and 1983. Davis was a No. 1 pick by the Chicago White Sox, where he played from 1985-88. He was 8-14 with a 4.91 ERA for his career, and started 41 of 49 games. He struck out 126 batters in 247.2 innings.