The Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias was arrested late Sunday evening and charged with a home violence felony after a bodily altercation along with his spouse at a stadium in South Los Angeles, the authorities stated on Monday.
The altercation passed off following a Main League Soccer match on the BMO Stadium, in keeping with Assistant Chief Chris Carr of the Exposition Park Division of Public Security, which manages the stadium and surrounding space.
Urias, 27, was arrested simply after 11 p.m. and launched on $50,000 bail simply earlier than 5 a.m. on Monday, in keeping with a reserving doc from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division. He’s scheduled to seem in courtroom on Sep. 27.
Additional data concerning the main points of the arrest weren’t instantly out there.
On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers said it was “aware of an incident” involving the participant.
“While we attempt to learn all the facts, he will not be traveling with the team,” the staff stated in a press release offered by Jon Weisman, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “The organization has no further comment at this time.”
Neither Main League Baseball nor Urias’s agent instantly responded to requests for touch upon Monday afternoon.
The arrest comes round three years after Urias, a star Dodgers participant who earns greater than $14 million a yr, was positioned on administrative depart following an identical incident during which he was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Division on suspicion of “intimate partner battery.”
Urias, 22, was concerned in an altercation with a girl in a shopping mall car parking zone, in keeping with a 2019 article in The Los Angeles Instances. Town prosecutor agreed to not file misdemeanor fees as long as Urias was not arrested once more for violent legal habits that yr, the newspaper reported.
Main League Baseball’s home violence and sexual abuse coverage, applied in 2016, supplies for the potential for self-discipline, together with suspensions, even when the authorized course of will not be accomplished.
The coverage states that gamers could also be positioned on paid administrative depart for as much as seven days whereas the commissioner’s workplace investigates accusations towards them, however the depart has been prolonged in previous circumstances.
Urias was suspended for 20 video games, or round three weeks, following the 2019 incident, Mr. Weisman stated by e-mail. He didn’t touch upon whether or not Urias can be suspended on account of Sunday’s arrest.