Overview
- Pearce was released Sunday night on a $20,500 bond and is under a pretrial stay-away order involving Los Angeles Sparks forward Rickea Jackson.
- He is charged with five felonies — including two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated stalking, fleeing and eluding, and aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer — plus a misdemeanor resisting charge.
- A criminal complaint says Pearce repeatedly struck Jackson’s vehicle with his SUV, hit an officer while driving away, fled police, crashed, and then resisted arrest.
- Doral police chief Edwin Lopez confirmed Jackson as the individual in the reported dispute, and the case has been assigned to the felony domestic-crimes intake unit.
- Pearce’s attorneys say he maintains his innocence, the Falcons say they are gathering information, and the NFL has opened a review under its personal conduct policy.