Nathan Griffith is once again behind bars…and once again, the charge appears to be “Domestic Battery by Strangulation.”
The former Teen Mom 2 dad— and father of Jenelle Evans‘ middle child Kaiser— was arrested on Wednesday night and hauled off to jail in Las Vegas, where he remains as of press time. (The Sun broke the news Thursday morning.) Nathan was charged with Domestic Battery by Strangulation, as well as violating the terms of his probation/suspended sentence from the last time he strangled someone. (As The Ashley has previously reported, Nate pled guilty to strangling his sister in 2023. He is still currently on probation for that crime.)
In July 2024, Nathan agreed to the terms of his probation, stating he was aware that if he did not follow the terms, he would be sentenced to a minimum of 12 months in prison, with a max of 48 months. This means that if Nathan is found guilty of violating his probation terms on Wednesday night, he will be spending the next year (or more) in one of the Nevada Department of Corrections’ finest clinks.
From what The Ashley can gather, Nathan was arrested after a fight with his 21-year-old girlfriend Anastasia Biddle. The former soulmate of Jenelle was seen Live on social media briefly on Wednesday night, filming Anastasia— whom he has been in a very publicly over-the-top relationship with— telling him to get out of her car. Things appeared to escalate later that night, with Anastasia apparently calling Nathan’s mother Doris Davidson for help.
Nathan was arrested around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, and Doris was apparently not happy about it. On Thursday, Anastasia posted a screenshot of a text conversation she apparently had with Doris, where Doris writes, “Well, you told me Nate didn’t strangle you and they have him charged on domestic battery by strangulation.”
Anastasia added the comment, “I called you first man.”
Nathan is being held on a $15,000 bond for the strangulation charge, but there is no bond set for his probation violation charge as it’s currently under review. He is scheduled to go before a judge on Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
Nathan has a history of being charged with domestic battery and strangulation. In addition to the crime against his sister in 2023, Nate was charged in February 2023 with “domestic battery by strangulation” against a girlfriend (while he was married to May Oyola…naturally) in Florida. The case did not move forward because the alleged victim dropped the charges.
Nathan also had a similar altercation with his wife May in January 2024 that ended in her being arrested for domestic battery against Nate. Her charges were eventually dropped and the couple split. (It is unknown if they are still technically legally married, though, as The Ashley has found no indication that either has filed for divorce.)
In 2016, Nathan was arrested in South Carolina for attacking his then-girlfriend Jessica Henry. She told police at the time that Nate had come into her room while she was sleeping and started choking her.
In March of 2015, Nathan was arrested for domestic violence against Jenelle when he allegedly tried to rip the engagement ring he had given Jenelle off of her finger. (The incident played out on an episode of ‘Teen Mom 2.’ Who could forget a sobbing Nate screaming “Jenneeeeeellle!” in the back of a police car?!) Jenelle later dropped those charges against Nathan.
He has also been arrested numerous times for alcohol-related charges.
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Nathan has been dating Anastasia since last year and the couple frequently posts extremely sappy (and sometimes downright concerning) tributes to each other on social media. In January, Nathan and his barely legal lover posted that they frequently cover each other’s eyes whenever a sex scene is shown on TV or in a movie, in order to remain pure for each other.
No…seriously.
” … We decided to do it because we don’t want to be polluted,” Nathan explained. “She covered my eyes during a sexual content scene of a woman and the very next scene it was a guy. So, now we just do it every movie we watch because yes, we have a past (which we don’t talk about) but we don’t need to go any further than that besides each other now. Our eyes are meant for each other.”
Earlier that month, Nate made another concerning post to social media, where he rambled on TikTok Live about how people in relationships should be given no privacy. Nathan highly concerned his followers during the Live, due to him slurring his words and proclaiming that it’s OK to control your partner’s phone, life and activities if you are in love.
That Live— which had more red flags than Nick Cannon has baby mamas— had Nathan proudly proclaiming that if a person allows their partner to follow people of the opposite gender on social media, you are setting them up to cheat.
“I’ve never been so happy in my entire life, I haven’t,” Nathan said, before declaring that he follows no women on Instagram, and his girlfriend follows no men.
UPDATE! On Thursday, Jenelle posted a story time to TikTok, revealing that Nathan randomly called her yesterday around 7 p.m.
“He said, ‘I need help. I usually don’t ask for help but I need help,'” Jenelle said, adding that Nate told her that he and Anastasia got into an argument.
“[Nathan told me], ‘She ended up leaving the house and now I need to leave before she calls the cops on me,'” Jenelle said. “I said, ‘What did you do? Did you make her mad, did you cheat on her?’ He’s like, ‘She thinks I cheated on her, but also, I’ve been drinking’ which he knows he’s not supposed to do because he’s on probation.”
Jenelle claimed that she gave Nate her address and he booked an Uber to get to her home.
“I said, ‘Listen, you can come over here, you can spend the night and stay in Kaiser’s room because he has a queen size bed,'” Jenelle stated. “But in a few days, you’ve got to figure out what you’re doing. But I will give you the option of trying to help you and I’m only doing that, of course, because it’s Kaiser’s father,” Jenelle said.
According to Jenelle, when Nate opened his door to get into his Uber, the cops were standing outside.
“He shut the door and…said, ‘Yeah, I’m not going out there!’ and I was like, ‘You should probably go talk to them’ and he was like, ‘No, they can call me.'”
Jenelle said she encouraged Nathan to speak to the cops, and he kept insisting that he didn’t hurt Anastasia.
“He was crying his eyes out and was like, ‘I don’t want to get arrested again, I’m gonna get arrested again!'” she stated. “I said, ‘Well, you shouldn’t be drinking, that’s your fault. But if you didn’t hit her, you need to go talk to them and tell them that.”
Nathan then claimed that it was Anastasia who attacked him, claiming he tried to leave “four or five times” and when he did Anastasia wouldn’t let him and “did circles around me.”
During this time, Nathan was apparently on FaceTime with his mom Doris.
“His mother talked to his girlfriend and his girlfriend said, ‘Look, he just got on top of me. He didn’t strangle me. But it scared me so then I called the police.'”
Jenelle claimed she was on FaceTime with Nathan for a few hours, until the cops broke into his home and tackled Nathan to the ground.
“Even though he wasn’t resisting when they arrived,” she said. “They promised Nathan, ‘We’re just gonna talk to you.’ But then as soon as he would open the door they would be like, ‘Put your hands up.'”
Jenelle insisted that she wasn’t trying to stick up for Nathan, but reminded fans that he has PTSD from being in the military.
“So when he heard that, he shut the door and got scared and started crying to me even more,” she said. “And it was really, really sad.”
Nathan— who, for some reason, had two phones– was apparently talking to Jenelle on FaceTime, while also speaking to cops on the other phone. Although the cops kept telling Nate they weren’t there to arrest him, after more than an hour, Nathan still refused to go outside his house to speak to the cops.
“That’s why [the cops] ended up coming in,” Jenelle said, adding that Nathan’s FaceTime was still running while Nate was being shoveled into the cop car.
“Once they got Nathan in the cop car, they said, ‘Oh well, at least we don’t have to deal with him for another two years because he’s going to be going to prison.’ And then they started laughing about it. And then [a cop] said, ‘Yeah, if he gives you a hard time, just tase him in the backseat.’ And they forgot to hang up on me and I heard all that.'”
This morning, Jenelle said she spoke to Nathan’s mom, who is “distraught” over what happened.
“I understand Nathan was drunk, but honestly, I mean if he was on FaceTime with his mom the whole time and the girlfriend admitted to his own mother that she didn’t get hit, I don’t understand why both of them didn’t get arrested.
“Before Nathan got arrested, they said, ‘We’ve got your girlfriend in handcuffs.’ And he’s like, ‘Why? Take her out of handcuffs!’ And they’re like, ‘No because she’s charged with domestic violence as well.’ Because I guess she bit him and he had two bite marks [on him]. He’s like, ‘She bit me! She hits me!'”
However, Nate refused to come outside to show the officers the alleged bite marks left by his girlfriend.
Jenelle said that she thinks this situation is “equally both their faults.”
She also revealed that Kaiser hasn’t seen Nathan in two years, despite the fact that both she and Nathan have been living in Las Vegas for over a year. However, she was apparently hoping this was the time to have Nathan step up as a father and be forced to stop drinking.
“I just wanted some help with Kaiser,” Jenelle said.
Jenelle said that, now that she’s single and has no man living with her, it would “be really nice if Nathan can help sometimes.”
“I was willing to give him that opportunity. And he didn’t make it out before the cops got there,” Jenelle giggled, before commenting that the situation is not funny.
“I shouldn’t be laughing. It’s sad. It was really sad to see him cry,” Jenelle said.
As for why Nate hasn’t quit drinking, Jenelle explained that Nate’s probation officer has threatened to file a violation against him if he tries to go to rehab to get help to stop drinking.
“So he can’t go get help, he can’t stop drinking, so where’s the middle here? It’s very hard for people to get into rehab in the first place, and when they’re willing to go that is the time to get them in,” she said. “I think someone needs to advocate for Nathan and I hope by me sharing this, I am hoping it’ll get back to the cops or the judge or the PO officer somehow because this time I don’t think it was entirely his fault.
“I know his intentions last night,” she continued. “He was more sad than angry. I’m not sure what really happened, but don’t take her word for it. Whatever she’s saying, whatever she’s posting, because I think both of them are in the wrong for this. And they both just need to go their separate ways.”
Jenelle then praised herself for staying single (for over a month!)
“Nathan needs to focus on himself, just like I am being single,” she said. “I’m not even going on dates or anything….[Nathan] was saying, ‘I love her so much’ and I was like, ‘I know you love her but you’ve got to get over being lonely. You just got to and it’s hard to do that. It took me almost 10 years.'”
Jenelle said she will still support Nathan.
“It’s sad to see him in that situation.”
You can watch Jenelle’s full TikTok below.
jenelle’s story time tiktok
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UPDATE #2: Nathan had his first court appearance in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon and…it did not go well for him. Click here to read all about what took place in court.
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Typical Jenelle, chasing abusive, loser d*ck for herself and someone to parent one of her kids.
As long as she doesn’t have to parent ANYONE can take the job!
I agree. Even if he does have PTSD, if I recall wasn’t he removed from his program for not following rules? Strangling in ager is a HUGE red flag. Nate needs help…while locked up somewhere.
These poor kids. Never had a chance.
Somebody is possibly going to die before he goes to jail, Ja Elle goes to rehab, the kids get removed.
Janelle is a very broken person and her identity is whoever she’s dating at the time.
Nathan is broken from the Marie’s. From war. From being shot at.
And the kids have never had a fighting chance at love, stability or a real home. It’s horrible for every single person involved.
Sooo she was going to let Nathan sleep in Kaisers bed and he hasn’t even seen his dad in two years?
And she sure loves to defend domestic abusers doesn’t she? What is she hoping to slide Nathan back in as a soulmate?
I was in an abusive relationship.. when they strangle you, he’s done this to his sister too, they’re more likely to kill you next time. Stay away from this broken man and men like him. It will never be good.. it doesn’t get better
Same. It started with him strangling me and escalated to him pulling a gun on me multiple times.
Mine went from hitting to strangling to pointing guns at me then eventually trying to murder me. If a man strangles you he will most likely try and kill you. Thankfully my husband’s plan to kill me didn’t work. Please get out of these relationships!!!!
I did. I told him I couldn’t be with him anymore. Besides the multiple attempts on my life, staying was setting a terrible example for my children. He couldn’t handle that and took his own life in July. I should have left the first time.
When I look back in the goings on of Jenelle and her many dudes, it’s drugs, physical battery, child endangerment, child neglect, spousal abuse, animal cruelty, hate speech, multiple petty crimes. What will it take for one of these turds to be locked up!? At this point the system isn’t just failing the kids, it’s failing society.
He wouldn’t have lasted long living with Jenelle they would be fighting and her calling the police.
Mother of the year really said “hey I know you have nothing to do with your son, two years of being absent even though you’re right here, but you’re more then welcome to come sleep off your drunken rage in his bed, bring your drama here and hide from the cops.”
She’s FUCKING disgusting dude. 🤮🤮
Of course she was going to let his drunk ass sleep in Kaiser’s bed and stay at the house. These two don’t deserve that poor little boy.
not swamp queen 🧟♀️👑 thinking: ‘hey, ol’ nate is drunk 🥃🥴 and on the lam ~ what a PERFECT time for he and kaiser to reunite after 2️⃣ years!’
🙄🙄🙄🙄
The fact that her thought was like “well maybe he’ll have time for Kaiser now, since he’s on the run from the police and likely not getting back with the GF who called the cops on him…..!? I better invite him over ASAP before we even know what really happened…”
The fact that she equates him paying less attention to a GF with the fact that he’ll have more attention for Kaiser….? It should have never be an either/or! What is this idea that he’s going to suddenly be a good dad to Kaiser—literally bunking with him(!?!?)—just bc she assumes his GF filing DV/strangulation charges against him is just a “normal way of breaking up with people…?”
She’s basically broken up with everyone of her BF’s by involving the legal system and having them face some sort of charges…but still takes their side when she needs some help with the kids? David is somehow now absolutely a strangler of Jace now that he’s moved on and won’t come back to her?
But not Nathan was NEVER physically abusive in any way, despite she—and other women—accusing him……bc she’d like to have Nathan back (at least as a Kaiser nanny)?!?!?
Jenelle is only defending him because she wants somebody else.To parent her child
And a drunk Nathan who was in panic mode and freaking the F out. What a very pleasant and peaceful sleep mate this drunken, enraged, freaked out man, who was being hunted by the cops, and who was also apparently sobbing to Jenelle about his GF, would be to a child on a school night!
And let’s not even roll in the fact that this strange, drunk, sad, mad, paranoid man is the bedmate child’s FATHER that he hasn’t seen in years and likely will have a ton questions for dad, and a lot of mixed feelings! Possibly anger and resentment, but also possibly wanting to have a heart to heart with dad, and be vulnerable, and try to reconnect…..but Dad is drunk and running from the police, and only there bc it was a “safe space.” How does Kaiser then feel when he’s told his long-lost Dad only came to see him and sleep in his bed bc he was drunk AF and trying to avert cops!?!
I hate Nate for doing this….of COURSE he strangled this new GF….and I also hate Jenelle for seeing it as a chance to suddenly get a former soulmate back under her control.
Also, janelle’s so full of shit.They wouldn’t do anything if he went to rehab, they’d probably actually be really happy if he went to rehab
The courts might be picky about which rehab he went to but yeah no probation office is going to threaten you for wanting to go.
He’s been dealing with Veterans Court too. If you say you want rehab and are serious, the VA will make it happen.
It’s all a bunch of horseshit.
At this point I think it’s safe to say that nathan should be put down if he was a dog, he would be by now. He’s never going to change.He’s been given many chances he should get life ’cause clearly.He doesn’t give a fuck about changing
But, and this is where it gets really confusing for some people, dogs aren’t humans.
He’s run out of chances. He may have TBI. He may have PTSD. He may have substance abuse problem. He’s been given plenty of opportunities to address his demons and he squandered them all. At some point the judicial system needs to take notice and protect society from him because protecting him instead of society isn’t working!
“Jenelle said that, now that she’s single and has no man living with her, it would “be really nice if Nathan can help sometimes.”
“I was willing to give him that opportunity. And he didn’t make it out before the cops got there.”
So Janelle wanted him to play dad with Kaiser and the other kids while he was at her house hiding from the law?!?!
Also the article mentions he has two phones. I thought at one point I read a stipulation to his probation was that he was not allowed to have a smart phone. Although That could be some other lowlife I was thinking of.
The argument started about Nathan drinking again. Violation one.
DV, violation two.
Second phone, violation three.
If only there would be groups where people can get free help for their alcohol addiction anonymously. Somewhere people can go multiple times a week should need be.
But when your GF is bitching about your alcohol use and you need a place to crash, you’ll want to go to rehab, instead of living in a place that’s not good enough for you, paid from your dissability, and go to AA meetings.
Nate always calls others to house him while he has an income.
Many don’t even have that much income and they survive the tough neighborhoods when they’ve hit rock bottom.
I think he was only allowed to ha e one phone. I can’t remember if “not a smart phone” was a stipulation.
That might’ve been it – just one phone. I recalled some restrictions on a phone.
How many more dumb ass women will go out with him knowing all the women he abused and strangled. Also what did Jenelle think maybe he could be her man now that she don’t have one ? Or did she thank free babysitter for the kids?
Both.
Not Jenelle trying to move Nathan back in to help with the kids 😂 she never wants to parent damn! She doesn’t go out on dates, but she goes out drinking every night with Tori 🙄 she just needs to stfu bc she is no better. Sadly we all knew this was coming for his gf. I just feel so bad for Kaiser
Wow how many chances to theses people get?!?
And Jenelle, I am so sure you’re telling the truth, like always. You only defend him right now because, as you said, you need to pawn a kid off on him. And it’s only a matter of time before soulmate number 863 comes along. It’s really hard to decide who is worse- her or amber?!?
Not Jenelle chiming in! Bitch STFU!! What kind of low life sticks up for an abuser?!? oh….wait
In her warped mind, she probably sees this as her chance to get back together with him. She was offering to help him evade arrest. It has been a whole month of being single. He has been given way too many chances. Hopefully he’ll really go to prison this time.
Nathan needs a good long PRISON vacation or admit to a mental facility. He needs ECT, deep psychotherapy and consistent medication. How do you even begin to explain this to your child? You know, the kid that doesn’t stand a snowballs chance…… sigh.
Are they waiting for him to finally kill a woman before doing anything? How come a man gets so many opportunities after multiple women accused him of strangling them?
Also Doris STFU. You know he strangles women. He even strangled his sister aka your daughter
Men who “choke” (strangle) during domestic violence incidents are more likely to murder their victims. It is a HUGE red flag! Nathan is on a very dangerous path and he needs to be locked up.
may God help these kids beat the odds to break this toxic cycle and become better than their sorry excuse of a mother and her sperm donors 🙏🏼
To be honest I have been terrified for this girl. The over the top love bombing and the weird statements about it being ok to control someone if you’re in love speak to the manipulative and controlling nature he has. He posts nonstop zoomed in pictures of her butt. He isn’t in love. He is in lust.
I said it the last 12 times he got arrested. He is going to kill someone. Period. And the court system could prevent a woman from dying. Will they? Doubtful.
And what a backwards bullshit statement his mom made. The fact that his girlfriend allegedly told Doris she wasn’t strangled means that Doris asked. So Doris knows her son is a violent psycho with a preference for trying to squeeze the life out of those he claims to love. He strangled and pled guilty to strangling his sister who is also her child. This is a repeated problem and his mommy seems to not grasp the seriousness of the situation.
I wish their was some place the women could Google him before going out with him.
He needs four years. He can have one year for every woman he’s accused of strangling.
Maybe it’s almost better that he hasn’t seen Kevin since they’ve all been in Vegas together..
FFS, lock that animal up in a cage where he belongs and throw away the key before he kills someone!!!!
Poor Kaiser 😢
I just want to add to the caption of the top picture.
“Here I am again… being a guy”.
No but seriously, I can’t believe he hasn’t killed anyone yet. Nathan is such a meance.