{"id":245666,"date":"2026-04-12T00:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:16:18","slug":"cowboys-safety-markquese-bell-arrested-on-drug-possession-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245666\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys safety Markquese Bell arrested on drug possession charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McKINNEY, Texas (AP) &#8212; Dallas Cowboys defensive back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/markquese-bell\/\" 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>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>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>&#8220;Certainly let Markquese have his day like anybody else,&#8221; Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Bell joined the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent out of Florida A&amp;M in 2022 and has played 48 games with 11 starts over four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>While Bell mostly has 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 Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Bell played all 17 games again last season and is going into the second year of a $9 million, three-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McKINNEY, Texas (AP) &#8212; Dallas Cowboys defensive back Markquese Bell has been arrested on drug possession charges in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[557,102,113,104,103,18084,223,73259,93584],"class_list":{"0":"post-245666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-markquese-bell","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-sensitive-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245666","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=245666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}