Bachelorette winner Devin Strader’s shocking history of criminal acts against ex-girlfriend revealed – as ABC’s faces grilling from fans over duty of care

The Bachelorette winner Devin Strader has found himself at the center of a media storm after it was revealed that he was handed a restraining order in 2017 by an unnamed ex-girlfriend days after he burglarized her house.

Devin, 28, who won the heart of leading star Jenn Tran in the latest season of the ABC dating show before brutally dumping her shortly after their engagement, was 21 when he was arrested for breaking into his former partner’s home in Louisiana.

According to reports, his ex-girlfriend filed a restraining order against him just three days later, claiming that he had spat on her and put her in a ‘chokehold’. 

In legal documents filed on March 19, 2017, Devin’s former partner claimed her house was broken into and a diamond necklace he had gifted her was missing.

She also alleged to the police that he had ‘come to her house banging on the door several times and screaming at her’.

The contestant brutally dumped leading star Jenn Tran after their engagement in the latest season of the ABC dating show

‘Later that evening, [Strader] made a fire out in the street with what appeared to be the actual restraining order,’ the affidavit, seen by Entertainment Weekly, continued.

‘She also had a tire flattened in her vehicle and when it was getting changed, [Strader] came outside and began laughing at her.’

Devin allegedly pleaded guilty to criminal trespass charges and criminal damage to property of less than $500 and received one year of unsupervised probation.

Meanwhile, the restraining order, which was filed on March 22, 2017, alleged that Devin ‘spit on me and threw his drink on me at Pelicans game in front of everyone in the crowd’ and ‘put me in a chokehold covering my mouth.’

Reports of Devin’s alleged criminal past have been circulating far and wide on social media, which in turn has raised questions about The Bachelorette’s casting process and its duty of care.

In one viral TikTok, user lovetoseeitpod pleaded with producers to be more rigorous when it comes to carrying out background checks on future participants.

Speaking in the video, she said: ‘It is something that we believe should really have been disqualifying for Devin to be on the show.

‘I think that we can all agree that the production company [and] the network all need to be very careful about prioritizing the safety of their leads and not putting their leads in a position to date someone who has a track record which indicates they might not be a safe person to form a serious relationship with.’ 

According to reports, Devin burglarized his ex-girlfriend’s house and took a necklace he had once gifted her 

It has also been reported that he repeatedly broke the restraining order that was taken out against him

‘It feels like laziness or negligence that they weren’t discovered earlier,’ the user added of the court documents.

‘We want people who go on this show to be safe and not be put in a position to be around people who might harm them, physically or emotionally,’ she finished.

‘Do better casting, I think you have to up the detail of your background checks in the future because this is not okay.’

A source close to production told Entertainment Weekly: ‘We take the safety of our contestants very seriously and make every effort to conduct thorough diligence.

‘As exhaustive as our vetting process is, this protective order did not surface in our searches.’

DailyMail.com has contacted ABC, Devin, and Jenn for comment.

Devin brutally ended his relationship with Jenn shortly after the cameras stopped rolling 

While Jenn and Devin left The Bachelorette loved up, their relationship quickly soured after filming stopped and he broke off their engagement over the phone.

In an interview with People, she said: ‘I had no idea what was going to happen, and in the moment I was just thinking about the things that were important to me.

‘And what was important to me was the fact that he disrespected our entire relationship after the fact.’

She then called him out for being so loving towards her initially and switching up so quickly.

‘Like I said, I can sit here and try to understand why someone would change their mind after saying all those crazy, crazy proclamations of love,’ she said.

‘But to also then sit there and disrespect the entire relationship by doing things that you know are going to hurt me, and by doing things that are just disrespectful to me, is next level of crazy.’

She also said she was surprised that he was not more upset after he ended their engagement over the phone.

During the finale of The Bachelorette, Devin claimed he did have ‘real’ feelings for Jenn but they faded.

‘Obviously I failed you,’ he told her. ‘And there’s nothing I can say other than that. But everything I felt for you was real.’