It’s been a very, very bad week for Jenelle Evans.
The Ashley can exclusively report that the Teen Mom star’s eldest son, Jace, has been removed from her home following a nasty fight between the mother and son.
In a 911 call made last Sunday by Jenelle (which The Ashley has obtained the audio of and has posted below), the former ‘Teen Mom’ star frantically states that her 15-year-old son was mad and “started smashing things” in her Las Vegas rental home. She then says that he has run away for the second time in one weekend.
Jace— whom Jenelle only regained custody of earlier this year after he had been in custody of CPS for months— reportedly first ran away on Saturday night, causing Jenelle to place a call to 911 call regarding a missing person/runaway. Jace returned home later that night
However, things apparently escalated again on Sunday morning, after Jace and Jenelle got into a “nasty fight,” according to a local source, who tells The Ashley that cops made their way to Jenelle’s home on Saturday and Sunday, and that Jace was located soon after he ran away on Sunday.
Jace has since been removed from Jenelle’s home and has not been back since last weekend. The Ashley can confirm Jace is safe, but will not be going back to Jenelle’s home for the foreseeable future.
The trouble with Jace came less than 24 hours after the former ‘Teen Mom’ star high-tailed it to Tennessee to bring her middle son Kaiser home, after leaving him to live with his paternal grandmother, Doris Davidson. Kaiser had just arrived back to Jenelle’s Vegas home, so he and Jenelle’s youngest child, Ensley, were both present at the scene and can be heard in the background of Jenelle’s 911 call on Sunday. At one point in the call, Jenelle tells Kaiser to stop talking to her while she’s on the phone.
“I told my two younger kids to stay away from [Jace],” Jenelle tells the 911 operator, before adding that Jace allegedly caused damage to her home.
“He smashed his door, my door, a closet door,” Jenelle said.
“…Now everything in my house is, like, smashed, and it keeps happening and the cops said they wouldn’t help yesterday [when Jace ran away the first time],” Jenelle says tearfully.
Later in the call, Jenelle revealed that she believes Jace smokes weed, and that he “drinks behind my back.” She added that Jace’s alleged smoking played a part in causing their argument the day before, in addition to Jenelle confiscating his pocketknife.
“He’s mad that I took that away,” she tells the 911 operator.
The 911 operator called Jenelle back soon after her first call and had her confirm that she herself was not currently under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
According to the 911 Communication records– also obtained by The Ashley— the operator asked Jenelle this because he became aware that, one month earlier, Jenelle’s boyfriend “August Keen” made a 911 call in which he stated that Jenelle drinks a lot, smokes marijuana and takes pills. (“August” later rescinded those claims.)
Jenelle told the 911 operator that she was totally sober and then confirmed that Jace had allegedly committed his offenses in front of Ensley and Kaiser.
In the police incident report filed on Sunday— which has been obtained by The Ashley— Jenelle told cops that Jace screamed “f**k you b*tch” in her face and proceeded to smash her kitchen cabinets.
Jace was located soon after Jenelle made the 911 call, and according to the 911 Communication records for the incident, he was described as “a bit uncooperative” to the cops.
The Las Vegas source added that, following Jace’s removal from Jenelle’s home, CPS paid Jenelle a visit this week to speak to Kaiser and Ensley about what happened.
This is not the first time that Jace has been removed from Jenelle’s care. As Teen Mom 2 fans know, Jenelle’s mother Barbara Evans raised the boy until March 2023, when Barbara signed custody back over to Jenelle, who was then living in North Carolina with her husband David Eason. Just months later, though, Jace ran away from his school. Weeks later, Jace ran away again, this time leaving home for a few hours before being found at a gas station a few miles away from Jenelle’s home on The Land. He ran away again in September 2023, after allegedly being assaulted by David. (There is currently an open criminal case against David for this alleged incident.)
Following that incident, Jace was in the custody of CPS (although he stayed briefly with Barbara and was in a number of facilities during this time.) It wasn’t until February of this year that Jenelle regained custody of Jace. That same month she left David, and soon moved with Jace (and her other two kids Kaiser and Ensley) to Las Vegas, where her boyfriend “August” lives.
Jenelle had not publicly mentioned Jace being removed from her home. Earlier this week, though, when someone asked her on Facebook if she still had her kids, Jenelle replied, “Of course I do.”
