James Hardy released from jail after alleged domestic incident

IU wide receiver James Hardy was released from an Allen County jail on $1,500 bond Monday morning after spending three nights there for the alleged battery of his girlfriend of seven years, Kyra Nolan.\nHardy was apprehended Friday night and charged with two class A misdemeanors, domestic battery and interfering with the reporting of a crime. \nFort Wayne police officers were alerted to the scene by Nolan's 911 call. According to the 911 dispatch log, an operator heard yelling and swearing before the line was disconnected. After calling back once and receiving no answer, a different operator heard Nolan say that Hardy had "hit her and her baby." \nAccording to the report, when police responded, an officer asked Nolan about red marks on her neck. She claimed that the red marks were from an altercation earlier in the week with another female, the report said. \nWhen police asked Hardy about the tears in his shirt and the red marks on the Nolan's neck, Hardy responded he and Nolan had only been arguing verbally and that his shirt was torn from wrestling with her brother, the report said. According to the report, he maintained that the marks on Nolan's neck were from them wrestling earlier before he wrestled with her brother.\nAt the scene police also saw a telephone broken into four pieces with the cord unplugged from its outlet, the report said. Hardy said that his infant son had probably broken the phone when he was playing with it. \nAccording to the police report, Hardy then told the officers that Nolan had gotten "into his face" and that he "pushed her away with his hand into her neck and that is where the red mark came from." He also admitted that he attempted to disconnect the phone, on speaker phone mode at the time, but that he didn't know who Nolan was trying to call, the report said.\nBesides Hardy and Thomas' infant son, the couple were the only ones in the house. The report listed no prior history of violence between the two.\nA spokesman for the athletics department said they will be monitoring Hardy's situation.\n"We are aware of the situation and are still in the process of collecting facts on the matter," said Pete Rhoda, IU director of athletic media relations. "If and when the matter is resolved, we will take the appropriate actions."\nHardy was IU's leading receiver in the 2005 season with 61 catches for 893 yards and 10 touchdowns. He was chosen as second team all-Big Ten and was a Rivals.com Freshman All-American. \nIn 2004, Hardy came to IU as a two-sport prospect. The 6-foot-7-inch, 216-pound forward started three games for the IU basketball team in his freshman year after redshirting on the football team. \nAfter his 2005 football success, however, the IU sophomore missed the entire 2005-06 basketball season and has since made no indication he wanted to continue to play basketball for IU.