Dodgers’ Julio Urias Arrested on Domestic Violence Felony
The Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias was arrested late Sunday night time and charged with a home violence felony after a bodily altercation together with his spouse at a stadium in South Los Angeles, the authorities stated on Monday.
The altercation occurred following a Major League Soccer match on the BMO Stadium, in line with Assistant Chief Chris Carr of the Exposition Park Department of Public Safety, 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 line with a reserving doc from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He is scheduled to look in court docket on Sep. 27.
Further info relating to the main points of the arrest weren’t instantly out there.
On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers stated 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 group stated in an announcement supplied by Jon Weisman, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “The organization has no further comment at this time.”
Neither Major League Baseball nor Urias’s agent instantly responded to requests for touch upon Monday afternoon.
The arrest comes 4 years after Urias, a star Dodgers participant who earns greater than $14 million a yr, was positioned on administrative depart following an identical incident wherein he was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on suspicion of “intimate partner battery.”
Urias, then 22, was concerned in an altercation with a girl in a shopping mall car parking zone, in line with a 2019 article in The Los Angeles Times. The metropolis 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.
Major League Baseball’s home violence and sexual abuse coverage, applied in 2016, supplies for the opportunity of self-discipline, together with suspensions, even when the authorized course of just isn’t 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 in opposition to them, however the depart has been prolonged in previous instances.
Urias was suspended for 20 video games, or round three weeks, following the 2019 incident, Mr. Weisman stated by electronic mail. He didn’t touch upon whether or not Urias could be suspended because of Sunday’s arrest.
