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Josh listed as victim in 1 police filing

There were already signs of domestic trouble between Giants kicker Josh Brown and his then-wife Molly in the fall and winter of 2014, months before his May, 2015 arrest in suburban Washington State for domestic assault, according to New Jersey police documents obtained by the Daily News.

Although by law the Garden State keeps domestic violence case files confidential — including police reports — two separate Hoboken Police Department dispatches detail instances in which law enforcement was called to the home of the Browns for alleged domestic disputes. And in one alleged incident, Josh Brown — not Molly — is listed as the victim.

“Caller wants wife removed from apartment the (sic) had a verbal dispute with his wife then when he bent over she proceeded to kick him in the ribs…” reads the dispatch report dated Oct. 1, 2014 and which lists Molly Brown as the defendant. “Everything was settled Husband and Wife were advised.”

Two months later, on Dec. 4, 2014, Hoboken Police responded to another alleged domestic dispute at the Brown household, but the dispatch report only says: “No signs of any injury. No complaints.”

According to Hoboken Police, neither instance escalated to the level of a criminal arrest.

Josh Brown was arrested by King County (Wash.) authorities on May 22, 2015 for fourth-degree domestic violence, but he was never charged in that case.

King County prosecutors, citing insufficient evidence, did not prosecute Josh Brown, although the investigation into that 2015 arrest was ongoing for a year, until May, 2016. During a lengthy statement to King County authorities after Josh’s arrest, Molly Brown (who has since divorced from Josh) said her thenhusband had been “physically violent to her on more than 20 different instances over the past several years.”

The Giants re-signed Brown, 37, earlier this year. The NFL suspended him one game to start this season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.