The Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias was arrested late Sunday evening and charged with a home violence felony after a bodily altercation together with his spouse at a stadium in South Los Angeles, the authorities mentioned on Monday.
The altercation befell following a Main League Soccer match on the BMO Stadium, in response to 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 response to a reserving doc from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division. He’s scheduled to look in courtroom on Sep. 27.
Additional data concerning the small print of the arrest weren’t instantly accessible.
On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers mentioned it was “conscious of an incident” involving the participant.
“Whereas we try to study all of the details, he won’t be touring with the workforce,” the workforce mentioned in an announcement supplied by Jon Weisman, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “The group has no additional remark presently.”
Neither Main 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 go away following the same incident during which he was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Division on suspicion of “intimate accomplice battery.”
Urias, then 22, was concerned in an altercation with a lady in a shopping mall parking zone, in response to a 2019 article in The Los Angeles Occasions. Town prosecutor agreed to not file misdemeanor costs as long as Urias was not arrested once more for violent felony conduct that yr, the newspaper reported.
Main League Baseball’s home violence and sexual abuse coverage, applied in 2016, gives for the potential of self-discipline, together with suspensions, even when the authorized course of shouldn’t be accomplished.
The coverage states that gamers could also be positioned on paid administrative go away for as much as seven days whereas the commissioner’s workplace investigates accusations towards them, however the go away has been prolonged in previous circumstances.
Urias was suspended for 20 video games, or round three weeks, following the 2019 incident, Mr. Weisman mentioned by electronic mail. He didn’t touch upon whether or not Urias can be suspended on account of Sunday’s arrest.