Aaron Hernandez’s Brother Had Bipolar Episode Days Earlier than ESPN Arrest, Cops Say

Cops say Aaron Hernandez‘s brother, Dennis “D.J.” Hernandez, skilled a bipolar episode lower than three weeks earlier than his ESPN arrest … one which resulted in a wild police chase by way of Connecticut roadways.

All of it allegedly went down on March 8 — simply 15 days earlier than he was accused of hurling a brick at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol — when cops say they tried to cease D.J. in his silver Hyundai as he was driving by way of Cheshire.

Based on the Cheshire Police Division, D.J. was driving erratically and at excessive charges of pace — at one level touring by way of grass fields in entrance of the Cheshire Correctional Establishment.

However, police say after they tried to tug him over … D.J. blew by way of a pink gentle and misplaced officers.

Based on police paperwork, obtained by TMZ Sports activities, cops made contact with D.J.’s mom — Terri Hernandez — a short while later … and so they say she informed them the 36-year-old former UConn soccer participant had “been performing very unusual and she or he believed he wanted to be mentally evaluated at a hospital.”

Finally, police paperwork present, the Bristol Police Dept. was in a position to take D.J. into custody “after a short foot chase.” Cops stated within the docs D.J. was having a bipolar episode … and informed them he had been driving throughout Connecticut attempting to get arrested as a result of “he now not wished to remain at his mother’s home.”

Cops say he was dedicated to the Bristol Hospital on a Police Emergency Examination Request.

D.J. — who modified his identify to Jonathan after Aaron’s homicide conviction — was in the end hit with 5 felony expenses over the incident, together with reckless driving and fascinating police in pursuit. He is due in court docket for a listening to on the matter in mid-April.

As we reported, on March 23, simply over two weeks following the March 8 incident, D.J. was arrested once more after he allegedly threw a white bag that contained a brick and a handwritten be aware at ESPN’s campus.