{"id":602166,"date":"2026-04-23T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602166\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:31:07","slug":"chiefs-defensive-backs-coach-dave-merritt-arrested-charged-with-domestic-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602166\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt arrested, charged with domestic battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Star reports that an Overland Park, Kansas, police officer <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/article315507770.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">arrested Merritt at about 8:50 p.m. Wednesday<\/a> and he was booked into the Johnson County jail at about 10:25 p.m. No bond has been set.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, the Johnson County District Attorney\u2019s Office filed a complaint accusing Merritt of \u201cunlawfully, knowingly, or recklessly\u201d causing bodily harm to a daughter, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Merritt is due in court today.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old Merritt has been the Chiefs\u2019 defensive backs coach since 2019. He has previously held NFL coaching jobs with the Cardinals, Giants and Jets, and spent time as a college assistant coach. He was a 1993 seventh-round pick of the Dolphins and had a brief NFL playing career before going into coaching.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs said they are aware of the arrest and have no comment. Merritt will likely be put on leave and the NFL will begin an investigation into a potential violation of the league\u2019s personal conduct policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery. The Kansas City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-602166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602166","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=602166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}