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Former Riders DB Justin Cox pleads guilty to assault charge

by
3Down Staff
September 5, 2018

Former Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive back Justin Cox has pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm.

A trial for Cox was to begin this morning, but he instead entered the guilty plea.

The one-time Rider is to return to court at a later date for sentencing.

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Cox was arrested a year ago in two separate incidents alleged to have occurred in August 2017.

At the time, Regina police said they had received calls from a hospital about a woman who said she had been physically assaulted by Cox, and from an employee at a business who alleged that Cox pointed a gun at her.

Cox must return to court in December to face a charge of assault with a weapon.

He was let go from the Roughriders in April 2017 after he was arrested for assault related to an alleged domestic dispute, but he was found not guilty.

However, then-commissioner Jeffrey Orridge said the CFL would not allow any other team in the league to sign him.

– CJME, The Canadian Press