By Sara Jean Green
Seattle Times
SEATTLE — A Seattle man with an obvious passion for football has been transferred from prison to the King County Jail on Friday to face charges that he caused another inmate’s broken arm after that man changed channels on a jail TV during halftime of a football game.
Cedric Cureaux, 48, who has a long criminal history in Washington and California, was being held in the King County Jail on drug and escape charges on Sept. 14, the day of the alleged incident, according to second-degree assault charges filed last week by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He pleaded guilty to the drug and escape charges on Sept. 23 and was later transferred to the custody of the state Department of Corrections to begin serving a yearlong prison sentence, court records show.
According to charging documents, Cureaux had warned other inmates housed in his jail unit on Sept. 13 — a Friday — “that they were going to watch football all weekend,” and he “didn’t care if anyone got hurt if they changed the TV from football.”
Full story: Don’t touch that dial when this jail inmate is watching football