Personal Life
Pearce lives in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife, LuAnne. He has five children, Dodi, Sean, Colten, Justin and Joshua. In 1980 LuAnne filed a petition for dissolution of marriage which alleged that he: "is possessed of a violent temper, and has from time to time hit and shoved the wife, when he grabbed the wife by the throat and threw her down." LuAnne was later reconciled with her husband. When asked many years later about the allegations, she acknowledged the 1980 petition but, despite having signed the document under oath, categorically denied ever having been struck, grabbed by the throat, thrown down, or threatened by her husband, adding that she did not know how the allegations came to be part of the court document signed by her under oath. Her husband likewise denied the allegations.
Pearce's son Justin resigned from the Arizona Motor Vehicles Division in 1999, after he produced counterfeit driver's licenses for himself and four friends with false ages, in an effort to avoid alcohol prohibition laws. Justin Pearce subsequently pled guilty to tampering with a public record and received a suspended sentence.
In February 2011, Mesa police arrested Pearce's son Joshua Trent Pearce on two outstanding warrants tied to a probation violation and failing to appear in court.
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