{"id":245246,"date":"2026-04-11T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:31:09","slug":"cowboys-db-markquese-bell-arrested-on-drug-possession-charges-near-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245246\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys DB Markquese Bell Arrested on Drug Possession Charges Near Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\"><a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> defensive back <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/markquese-ball-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markquese Bell<\/a> has been arrested on drug possession charges in the Dallas area, according to online jail records posted Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Bell is facing counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana in Collin County, north of Dallas. Police in Prosper, where the arrest was made, didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">A spokesman for the Cowboys said the club was aware of the arrest and declined to comment further. Deiric Jackson, Bell&#8217;s agent, said his client would let the legal process play out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">&#8220;Certainly let Markquese have his day like anybody else,&#8221; Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The 27-year-old Bell joined the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/florida-am-rattlers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida A&amp;M<\/a> in 2022 and has played 48 games with 11 starts over four seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">While Bell has mostly played special teams, injuries have led to substantial playing time in the secondary. He had 94 tackles in 2023, when he played all 17 regular-season games and tied for the team lead in tackles with eight in a wild-card loss to the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/green-bay-packers-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Bell played all 17 games again last season and is going into the second year of a $9 million, three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys defensive back Markquese Bell has been arrested on drug possession charges in the Dallas area, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103,18084,6030],"class_list":{"0":"post-245246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-markquese-bell","13":"tag-national-football-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}