{"id":559726,"date":"2026-04-02T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:33:08","slug":"brandon-clarke-arrested-on-drug-fleeing-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559726\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Clarke Arrested On Drug, Fleeing Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzlies forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clarkbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandon Clarke<\/a> was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Cross County, Arkansas, on charges of trafficking a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, fleeing in a vehicle exceeding the speed limit and improper passing, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2026\/04\/01\/brandon-clarke-arrested-in-arkansas-charges-memphis-grizzlies-nba\/89426935007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z118301p119450l000750c119450e003000v118301d--76--b--76--&amp;gca-ft=175&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lucas Finton and Damichael Cole of The Memphis Commercial Appeal<\/a> write in a subscriber-only story.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447166 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brandon-Clarke-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>The sheriff\u2019s department refused to comment on the arrest, with Chief Deputy Larry Jones emailing a statement to the authors that read,\u00a0\u201cAt this time, there is no additional information that can be released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Tuomas Iisalo also offered little insight during a session with reporters before tonight\u2019s home game against New York, according to Finton and Cole. \u201cI\u2019m aware of the report but don\u2019t have any comments,\u201d Iisalo said.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke was only available for two games this season, as he missed the start of the campaign while recovering from a procedure on his right knee and then quickly suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/12\/grizzlies-forward-brandon-clarke-sidelined-at-least-three-weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">right calf strain<\/a>. After recent medical imaging, he was declared <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/03\/morant-clarke-edey-officially-ruled-out-for-rest-of-season.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">out for the season<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries have derailed a promising career for the 29-year-old Clarke, who finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year race in 2020 and was a reliable big man off the bench for the successful Grizzlies teams earlier this decade. He was limited to six games during the 2023\/24 season, and then rebounded for 64 a year ago before hurting his knee.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke is earning $12.5MM this season and has the same amount fully guaranteed for next year before becoming a free agent in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Cross County, Arkansas, on charges of trafficking a controlled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109036,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-559726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brandon-clarke","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}