Rowlett Police Officer Marquale Dijon Pierson and his wife, Samantha Gabrielle Pierson, were arrested by the Rockwall Police Department on May 1, 2026. The arrests came after a female victim contacted Rockwall police on April 19, 2026, regarding an alleged assault during the early morning hours at an establishment in the 2800 block of Ridge Road. Both Piersons, who are 35, were arrested by warrant. Jail records show both Piersons were booked on a charge of assault causes bodily injury. The records show Marquale Pierson’s bond was set at $8,000 and Samantha Gabrielle Pierson’s bond was set at $5,000. Both were released the same day on surety bonds.

Rowlett places Pierson on administrative leave

The Rowlett Police Department said it was aware of the arrest and placed Marquale Pierson on administrative leave while an internal investigation is underway. Pierson is currently listed as a school resource officer with the department. He joined the Rowlett Police Department as a sworn officer on March 23, 2018, after previously serving as a detention officer with the agency. His arrest now places a school-assigned officer with a visible role in the department under both criminal and administrative review.

Pierson had also gained public visibility early in his time with the department through an agency lip sync battle that was circulated on the City of Rowlett’s social media and uploaded to the city’s YouTube page. The appearance helped make him recognizable beyond routine department staffing announcements. Over the years, he also received internal recognition from the department. In 2019, he was named Rookie of the Year.

Career background and public profile

Pierson’s LinkedIn profile shows he worked with the Garland Independent School District from February 2013 to September 2015 in the Physical Education division. It also shows he attended Harding University from 2009 to 2011 and the University of North Texas from 2011 to 2012. In 2022, Pierson received the department’s Life Saving Award for his actions during a July 5, 2022 welfare check. According to the department’s account of the incident, officers were dispatched to a residence after dispatchers advised there was a subject attempting to commit suicide. When Officers Pierson and Webb arrived, they heard a vehicle running in a closed garage, received no answer at the front door, checked the residence, and found all doors locked. They then kicked in the front door, opened the garage, found the subject barely conscious in the driver’s seat, removed the person from the vehicle, and carried them outside until Rowlett Fire Rescue took over treatment.

Recognition now contrasted with arrest

After reviewing that 2022 incident, police command staff determined that without the quick actions of Officers Pierson and Webb, the person would have perished. That award became one of the department’s public markers of Pierson’s standing inside the agency. The May 1, 2026, arrest now places those prior commendations alongside an assault case being handled by Rockwall police and an internal investigation by his own department.

Prior reporting raised prior Rowlett licensing questions

The arrests also land against a longer history of review involving Rowlett and peace-officer licensing. In 2020, The Hawk’s Eye reported on records tied to Rowlett officer Steven J. Ferrie that showed a Basic Reserve Officer Course through the City of Royse City in the early 1990s, while TCOLE records showed Royse City had never been approved to provide that BROC. That report also said Royse City confirmed it had no transcripts on file for Ferrie’s training in its “academy,” raising questions about how the training was credited and why no corrective action followed.  TCOLE declined to take action and attributed the concern to shoddy tracking and their inability to reconstruct earlier procedures by TCOLE.

That reporting was followed in 2021 by The Hawk’s Eye review that said TCOLE had confirmed people in Texas were holding peace-officer licenses without properly approved training but still failed to take action. That story specifically identified Rowlett officer David R. Mayne and Rowlett officer David W. Nabors as examples tied to the unapproved Dallas Security Force Academy, which the report said was not a legitimate academy before Aug. 3, 1983. The article argued that, despite those findings, TCOLE had not moved against the licenses or employment tied to those records.

Pierson’s arrest is separate from those licensing questions. But it adds to an existing record of reporting that has already put Rowlett policing and TCOLE oversight in question.  

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