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Atlanta Falcons<\/a> edge rusher James Pearce Jr<\/a>. was arrested on Saturday in South Florida on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon (two counts), aggravated stalking and fleeing and eluding police,\u00a0police reports show.<\/a><\/p>\n Pearce, 23, fled the scene of a domestic dispute involving his girlfriend, Los Angeles Sparks\u00a0star Rickea Jackson,\u00a0according to Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez<\/a>. Police said that Pearce later crashed at Northwest 103rd Avenue and 66th Street before being placed in handcuffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pearce was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County. His bond has been set at $20,500, and Pearce was give a pre-trial conditional stay-away order pertaining to Jackson.<\/p>\n “We are aware of an incident involving James Pearce Jr. in Miami,”\u00a0the Falcons said in a statement.<\/a> We are in the process of gathering more information and will not have any further comment on an open legal matter at this time.”<\/p>\n Pearce, who was selected by the Falcons with the No. 26 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a>, recorded 10.5 sacks last season, which ranked No. 1 among all rookies in his class. He finished the 2025 season with 26 total tackles (17 solo), 10 tackles for loss and a forced fumble. The Falcons traded back up in the first round of the draft with the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> last spring to select the former Tennessee product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Atlanta Falcons edge rusher James Pearce Jr. was arrested on Saturday in South Florida on charges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[1766,49,48,189230,189233,189232,19253,189231,1749,632,514,82,630],"class_list":["post-463131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-james-pearce-arrest","tag-james-pearce-falcons","tag-james-pearce-girlfriend","tag-james-pearce-jr","tag-james-pearce-rickea-jackson","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}