An inmate at State Correctional Institution at Dallas will face assault charges after being found with a makeshift weapon following a fight with another prisoner, according to state police.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Cruz, 45, of Emmaus, is accused of assaulting 24-year-old Christopher Williams on J Block of the Jackson Twp. prison around 8:25 p.m. Oct. 24.<\/p>\n
According to police, a correctional officer saw the pair throwing punches at each other\u2019s faces. While breaking up the fight, the officer discovered Cruz was in possession of a padlock attached to an extension cord, police said.<\/p>\n
Cruz was combative with the officer and had to be placed in wrist restraints, police said.\u00a0The officer then secured the weapon.<\/p>\n
Troopers said assault charges were pending against Cruz, who is serving time for fleeing police in Monroe County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inmate at State Correctional Institution at Dallas will face assault charges after being found with a makeshift…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16612,102,104,103,7630,223,7631],"class_list":{"0":"post-98477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-luzerne-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}