{"id":330177,"date":"2026-07-05T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330177\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:01:08","slug":"ex-nfl-player-marcellus-wiley-arrested-in-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330177\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL player, Marcellus Wiley arrested in Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo above: News and weather for Sunday, July 5, 2026A former National Football League player and sports broadcaster was arrested in Central Florida. According to Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office records, Marcellus V. Wiley, 51, was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Saturday, July 4, on one count of domestic battery.WPBF 25 News requested an incident report and comment on the arrest from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and is awaiting a response.Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsJail records indicate that Wiley remains in the Orange County Jail in Orlando without bond as of Sunday afternoon.Wiley, a defensive lineman, played in 147 games during his 10 seasons (1997-2006) in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers (now located in Los Angeles), Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars. According to Fox Sports.com, Wiley was a sports broadcaster for ESPN and Fox Sports after his professional football career.TMZ was the first to report the arrest.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Video above: News and weather for Sunday, July 5, 2026<\/p>\n

A former National Football League player and sports broadcaster was arrested in Central Florida. <\/p>\n

According to Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office records, Marcellus V. Wiley, 51, was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Saturday, July 4, on one count of domestic battery.<\/p>\n

WPBF 25 News requested an incident report and comment on the arrest from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n

Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarcellus V. Wiley<\/p>\n

Jail records indicate that Wiley remains in the Orange County Jail in Orlando without bond as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Wiley, a defensive lineman, played in 147 games during his 10 seasons (1997-2006) in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers (now located in Los Angeles), Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharger defensive end Marcellus Wiley is loose prior to game against the Raiders at Qualcomm Stadium on Dec.8, 2002. (Photo by Vince Compagnone\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

According to Fox Sports.com<\/a>, Wiley was a sports broadcaster for ESPN and Fox Sports after his professional football career.<\/p>\n

TMZ<\/a> was the first to report the arrest.<\/p>\n

Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: News and weather for Sunday, July 5, 2026A former National Football League player and sports broadcaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[692,2788,147,44738,38312,28,30,29,136398,46909,675,677,115,116319,136400,33237,136401,136399,21042,189],"class_list":["post-330177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrest","tag-bond","tag-central-florida","tag-comment","tag-domestic-battery","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-former-nfl-player","tag-incident-report","tag-local-coverage","tag-neighborhood","tag-news","tag-newsjail-record","tag-office-record","tag-orange-county-sheriff","tag-sport-broadcaster-marcellus-wiley","tag-sports-broadcaster-marcellus-wiley-arrested-in-central-florida","tag-wiley","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}