Former Seattle Seahawks' participant Junior Siavii was discovered unresponsive Thursday within the US Penitentiary in Leavenworth.
AP / Elaine Thompson
Former NFL defensive sort out Saousoalii “Junior” Siavii died in a Kansas jail whereas awaiting trial on federal gun and drug trafficking expenses, information present.
Siavili, 43, was discovered unresponsive Thursday within the US Penitentiary in Leavenworth simply after 2:30 p.m., US Bureau of Jail spokeswoman Anna Armijo informed The Kansas Metropolis Star.
No particulars surrounding the ex-Kansas Metropolis Chiefs participant’s dying had been instantly out there.
Armijo mentioned no jail workers or inmates had been injured and “at no time was the general public at risk,” the Star reported.
Siaviii was arrested in August 2019 after police noticed him driving a automobile that had been reported stolen within the Kansas Metropolis suburb of Independence.
Prosecutors mentioned the 6-foot-5, 315-pound Siavii fought off officers, who tased him twice in the course of the confrontation. He was lastly subdued and cuffed after an officer carried out a neck restraint on Siavii till he went unconscious.
He was discovered was in possession of a gun, ammunition, methamphetamine and marijuana.
Siaviii was later indicted with eight others accused of being a part of a meth drug trafficking ring in western Missouri, based on the Star.
He had additionally been arrested twice earlier than whereas in possession of unlawful medicine and loaded firearms, based on the legal criticism.
Siaviii had simply been transferred to the medium-security jail in Leavenworth on Dec. 17, the Star reported.
Savii, a local of American Samoa, was drafted thirty sixth total 2004 NFL Draft by the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs out of the College of Oregon.
He was reduce from the crew in 2006, however later signed with the Dallas Cowboys in 2008, the place he intermittently frolicked till 2010.
In 2011, he was claimed off waivers by the Seattle Seahawks and a career-high in tackles earlier than he was injured and was launched that very same yr.
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