DENVER, June 13 -- At the center of the second arrest is a protection order, and the woman it was written to protect. Denver Broncos pass rusher Jonathon Cooper was taken into custody again on Thursday night, eight days after a domestic-dispute arrest, and is now accused of doing the one thing a court had expressly forbidden him to do: contacting the girlfriend the order was designed to shield.

According to the account reported by the Washington Post, Cooper sent his girlfriend roughly 20 messages and placed two unanswered phone calls on Thursday before going to her apartment and knocking on the door. He now faces new charges of harassment from repeated phone calls and violation of a protection order, and was issued a stricter no-contact...