Fact check: Dwyane Wade's son, Zaire Wade, was arrested for felony domestic violence.

Verdict: mostly true — Trust Score 75/100

The Instagram post accurately reports that Dwyane Wade's son, Zaire Wade, was arrested for felony domestic violence by the Burbank Police Department, confirmed by 4 sources. He was booked on charges including felony domestic violence, criminal threats, and false imprisonment. However, the post includes product images for 'THORNE Amino Complex' and 'THORNE Daily Green Plus' which are unrelated to the news content.

Platform
instagram
Source author
hearasap — see all fact-checks of this account
Original post
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaEKbCZykx0/?igsh=MTN1Z3pxb2VueWx0NA==
Verified on
June 26, 2026
Verification ID
M4fDAPUFWl8hu46I-uF-2w

Original content reviewed

Platform: INSTAGRAM Author: @hearasap --- Caption/Description --- 👉 Follow @hearasap for more #BREAKING: Dwyane Wade’s son has been arrested for felony d*mestic violence .. Zaire Wade — the NBA Hall of Famer’s eldest child — was arrested and booked by the Burbank Police Department on Sunday. He was booked on three charges ... felony domestic v*olence, criminal threats, and false imprisonment and an emergency protective order has been issued. We’ve reached out to cops for more information. According to NBC4 ... Burbank police were called to a home around 5:30 AM on Sunday after receiving a call about a woman screaming. When officers showed up, the outlet reports they found Zaire and a woman with lacerations on her face and body. Despite her alleged injuries, the woman was reportedly not transported to the hospital. Zaire was released later in the day after posting a $50K bond. Zaire played high school basketball at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California, where he received several scholarship offers ... but he ultimately turned them down to go pro. He played one year for the Salt Lake City Stars of the G League and spent a couple seasons overseas, playing in South Africa and Macau. --- On-Screen Text (OCR) --- BREAKING WAY OF WADE THORNE Amino Complex DIETARY SUPPLEMENT THORNE Daily Green Plus DIETARY SUPPLEMENT Dwyane Wade oldest son, Zaire arrested for felony domestic assault Follow @hearasap for more HEAR ASAP Published: 2026-06-26T22:00:14.000Z ---VERIFICATION_SUMMARY--- Platform: INSTAGRAM Author: @hearasap --- HOW TO VERIFY THIS (provenance-first) --- 1. SOURCE-TRACE: take the MOST DISTINCTIVE, verbatim details above — exact unusual quotes, named people/places/objects — and web-search them TOGETHER as a combination, alongside the subject/person shown and the topic, to find the ORIGINAL source of this clip (an official channel, the uploader, a news report). A combination of distinctive phrases has essentially ONE source on the web. 2. JUDGE F

Claims analyzed (3)

  1. mostly true: Dwyane Wade's son, Zaire Wade, was arrested for felony domestic violence.
    Multiple reliable news sources, including TMZ and Us Weekly, reported on June 26, 2026, that Zaire Wade was arrested by the Burbank Police Department on Sunday for felony domestic violence, criminal threats, and false imprisonment. An emergency protective order was also issued. NBC4 reported that police found Zaire and a woman with lacerations on her face and body. Zaire was released after posting a $50K bond.
  2. mostly true: Zaire Wade was arrested and booked by the Burbank Police Department on Sunday.
    News reports from TMZ and Us Weekly confirm that Zaire Wade was arrested and booked by the Burbank Police Department on Sunday, June 21, 2026.
  3. verified: Zaire Wade played one year for the Salt Lake City Stars of the G League and spent a couple seasons overseas, playing in South Africa and Macau.
    Zaire Wade was drafted by the Salt Lake City Stars in the 2021 NBA G League draft and played one season with them. He later played for the Cape Town Tigers in the Basketball Africa League in 2023 and signed with the Macau Black Bears in The Asian Tournament in 2024.

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