'Real' Seahawks fan charged with lewd conduct in Vet Day altercation

A 40-year-old Hayden man is in jail for lewd conduct after biting a teenage girl in the crotch when he was drunk, according to police reports.

Bail for Jose U. Cuevas was set at $100,000 after being charged in First District Court with one count of lewd conduct with a child, and two counts of child abuse.

Prosecutors asked for a higher bail amount at Cuevas’s first court appearance, but defense attorneys argued that Cuevas has family in the area, is employed and requested bail set at an amount that is attainable.

Cuevas was allegedly intoxicated after drinking during the day, Nov. 11, at his Hayden home and later at Starlight Lanes bowling alley. According to a witness statement, he picked fights with people wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys, accusing them of “not being real Seahawks fans.”

He left the bowling alley in his own vehicle, police said, and at least one motorist reported he was in the road. Not long afterward, police responded to a call of a man who had solicited sex from a teenage girl, had grabbed her and bitten her slacks near the crotch while unzipping his trousers and showing his penis.

Deputies arrested Cuevas, whose fly was unbuttoned, and who denied any sexual contact with teenage girls, according to paperwork in court records.

Senior Judge Robert Burton ordered that Cuevas have no contact with teenage girls if he posts bail. The judge set a Nov. 22 preliminary hearing.