Former Oregon Ducks football player Colt Lyerla attacked his girlfriend in Eugene on Monday and was arrested in Springfield the next day while trying to run from officers, police say.

Officers used a stun gun on Lyerla, 26, during his arrest and he was later found with heroin on him, according to Eugene police. Lyerla remains held Wednesday in the Lane County Jail on accusations of second-degree assault, strangulation, menacing, coercion and unlawful possession of heroin.

He is also suspected of violating the terms of his parole.

According to police, the 24-year-old woman reported Lyerla attacked her at home around 11:15 a.m. Monday. He was gone by the time officers arrived. She was taken to a hospital to treat unspecified injuries.

Police spotted Lyerla driving his car in Springfield Tuesday, and then later saw the car parked outside a home. Lyerla ran at some point as officers tried to arrest him, police said.

Lyerla played football at Hillsboro High School and later for the University of Oregon beginning in 2011. He left the team in 2013 and signed with the NFL’s Green Bay Packers the next year. He was later released from the team.

Lyerla’s criminal history includes a 2013 conviction in Lane County for cocaine possession. In April 2017, he was sentenced to six months in jail after admitting to using counterfeit $50 bills to pay for chewing tobacco, lottery tickets and other items in Hillsboro and Beaverton. He was transferred to a minimum-security residential facility to serve part of his sentence, climbed out of a first-floor window and fled. He was found the next day at a Hillsboro home about two miles away overdosing on heroin, prosecutors said at the time.

Washington County Circuit Court Judge D. Charles Bailey ordered Lyerla to serve another 30 days in jail for the escape and to check in with him every three weeks on his progress in staying sober.

According to court records, police arrested Lyerla that October on suspicion of violating his probation after testing positive for cocaine and failing to check in with his probation officer. He was arrested the next month for missing another status check and again in August 2018 for another probation violation.

In December, Lyerla was arrested at a Washington County Target after he was seen stealing about $120 worth of items and was chased by sheriff’s deputies in the store, court records said. Deputies found heroin in his sock after he was arrested.

He pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of heroin about two weeks later and sentenced to four months in prison and one year of post-prison supervision, court records show.

-- Everton Bailey Jr.

ebailey@oregonian.com | 503-221-8343 |@EvertonBailey

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