{"id":375,"date":"2026-04-23T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/?p=375"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:55:10","slug":"chiefs-assistant-coach-dave-merritt-arrested-for-domestic-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs Assistant Coach Dave Merritt Arrested For Domestic Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL player and current Kansas City Chiefs defensive backs <a href=\"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/?p=362\">coach<\/a> Dave Merritt was arrested for domestic battery on Wednesday &#8230; after reportedly causing bodily harm to &#8220;a daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old was arrested around 9 PM in Overland Park &#8230; and was booked into jail without bond, according to the Kansas City Star.<\/p>\n<p>A complaint was filed with the Johnson County District Attorney&#8217;s Office on Thursday &#8230; claiming Merritt &#8220;unlawfully, knowingly, or recklessly&#8221; caused bodily harm to a daughter &#8212; a domestic violence offense, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>He is due in court in a matter of minutes, as of the time of this post.<\/p>\n<p>Further details surrounding the arrest were not provided.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs told the outlet they were aware of the allegations but had no further comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/?p=362\">Ex-Alabama girls high school basketball coach charged with \u2018deviant\u2019 sex with student, dumped by husband<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merritt has been a member of the Kansas City staff for seven seasons &#8230; and got into coaching after a short career as a linebacker for the Dolphins and Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>He has won five Super Bowls as a coach &#8212; two with the New York Giants and three with the Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL player and current Kansas City Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt was arrested for domestic battery on Wednesday &#8230; after reportedly causing bodily harm to &#8220;a daughter.&#8221; The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[160,166],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-gist","tag-coach","tag-dave-merritt","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dave-Merritt_.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijapopstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}