Ezekiel Elliott and accuser allegedly involved in another incident in February

Florida police were called to Elliott's apartment in February

When Ohio police were asked to investigate a domestic incident in July between Ezekiel Elliott and his ex-girlfriend, it wasn't the first time that cops had looked into a situation involving the former couple.

According to an incident report obtained by USA Today, the two also had an alleged altercation in February at Elliott's apartment in Florida.

During the Florida incident, Elliott told Aventura (Fla.) Police that a spat started when the woman "became angry over a social media incident and upset because she was asked to leave his apartment, and go back to Ohio."

Elliott was in Florida training for the NFL Draft. The former Ohio State running back says that the woman refused to leave, so he decided to lock himself in his room. The woman didn't want Elliott to lock himself in his room, so she grabbed him around the waist, and at that point, Elliot pushed her off.

After police investigated the incident, they found no signs of injury. Although the woman was told she could file charges against Elliott, it appears that she decided not to. A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office told USA Today that there's no record of the accuser filing chargers and that the case was never forwarded to the prosecutor's office for review.

In the incident report written by police, the woman didn't call herself Elliot's girlfriend. She said they were "friends with benefits."

The alleged February incident came five months before a second alleged incident between the two that occurred in Columbus, Ohio in July.

In the aftermath of that incident, the city attorney's office of Columbus announced in September that Elliott would not face any charges stemming from the incident. The attorney's office explained that it wouldn't be pressing charges "due to conflicting and inconsistent information" from Elliott's ex-girlfriend.

Despite the fact that there were no charges filed, Robert Tobias, the principal assistant city attorney in Columbus, told USA Today on Oct. 31 that it was his personal opinion that violence occurred between the two parties in July.

"For the Ezekiel Elliott matter, I personally believe that there were a series of interactions between Mr. Elliott and (his accuser) where violence occurred," Tobias wrote in an email. "However, given the totality of the circumstances, I could not firmly conclude exactly what happened."

The NFL is still investigating the July incident as part of its new domestic violence policy that can lead to a player being suspended for six games for a first offense. It's not known if the league is aware of the February incident. Under the league's policy, a player doesn't necessarily have to be formally charged with a crime to be punished by the NFL.

CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora reported on Oct. 30 that Elliott could face a lengthy suspension if the NFL finds that he violated the domestic violence policy. The NFL interviewed Elliott in September. If NFL were to decide that Elliott was in the wrong, the league could suspend him for six games.

Elliott's lawyer, Frank Salzano, says that his client is innocent and that the only reason the league is dragging out the investigation is because they blew it in the Josh Brown incident.

"We remain firm that the NFL will clear Mr. Elliott of any wrongdoing and this matter can be finally put to rest," Salzano said in a statement released on Oct. 31."We firmly believe that the NFL should promptly close its investigation which is only open because of their apprehensiveness stemming from the recent scrutiny it has come under for its handling of other domestic violence matters."

Jerry Jones would also like to see the investigation be put to rest. After Dallas' 29-23 overtime win over Philadelphia on Sunday, the Cowboys owner said that he had been told the NFL didn't find any damaging information in the league investigation.

"People that have a lot more information than I have have given him a total clean bill of health," Jones said. "I do know that all the real information that anybody has is that he doesn't have an issue."

However, Jones did note that he doesn't necessarily expect the investigation to be completed anytime soon.

"I don't know that the NFL has a closure, has a situation where they've cut it close, which could be a frailty of the system," Jones said, via ESPN.com. "As you know in law, one of the things in the Constitution is that not only are you innocent before proven guilty, you get quick addressing and then you don't get it drawn out. It has certain time frames and has a lot of economic limitations. So we have to, in my mind, just make sure that we inject that in the type of looking for information that we do in the NFL.

"But law has many, if you will a couple 100 years at least, working on through how you basically create some timeframes, create how it's initiated, create what the circumstances are about. And several which pertain to the NFL and companies, they don't necessarily have to go by that. We have a different deal though. We're so public and our issues are so public that we don't afford some of the things for some of the players, other people involved in the NFL, that the law does."