Former Dolphins, University of Miami running back Mark Walton released from custody
UPDATE: Walton was released Monday.
Former Miami Dolphins and UM running back Mark Walton was released from Miami-Dade Corrections custody Monday.
Walton’s Miami-Dade Corrections online entry said he was on hold for another agency after being taken into custody Thursday.
After November’s arrest on a charge of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman — he was accused of repeatedly punching girlfriend Jasmin Thompson in Davie two days after finding out she was pregnant — Walton has been under the no-contact order that’s standard in domestic violence cases. Any contact with Thompson after Walton posted bond violates that order.
NBC6 reported that when Opa-locka police got to a call around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, it involved Walton and Thompson.
Walton pleaded not guilty to the November charges. The Dolphins, weary of Walton’s repeated legal troubles and especially this arrest, released him the day after his arrest. Despite being two games into a suspension for violating the NFL’s substance abuse and personal conduct policy, Walton’s 201 rushing yards actually led the Dolphins in that category for 2019 at the time he got cut.
Three arrests, all in Miami-Dade, in just over three months of early 2019 spurred the Bengals to cut Walton. Prosecutors decided to drop charges in misdemeanor marijuana possession and battery cases and got withheld adjudication on charges of open carrying a weapon, resisting an officer without violence and reckless driving.
The Dolphins gave him a tryout in May 2019. The franchise later said it didn’t know about an alleged March 2019 battery of Thompson by Walton in Miami Gardens.
This story was originally published February 27, 2020 at 2:50 PM.
