Dodgers’ Julio Urias Arrested on Domestic Violence Felony

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 mentioned on Monday.

The altercation happened following a Major League Soccer match on the BMO Stadium, in response to 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 response to a reserving doc from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He is scheduled to seem in court docket on Sep. 27.

Further info relating to the main points of the arrest weren’t instantly accessible.

On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers mentioned 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 mentioned 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 round three years after Urias, a star Dodgers participant who earns greater than $14 million a 12 months, was positioned on administrative go away following an identical incident through which he was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on suspicion of “intimate partner battery.”

Urias, 22, was concerned in an altercation with a girl in a shopping mall parking zone, in response to a 2019 article in The Los Angeles Times. The metropolis prosecutor agreed to not file misdemeanor costs as long as Urias was not arrested once more for violent felony habits that 12 months, the newspaper reported.

Major League Baseball’s home violence and sexual abuse coverage, applied in 2016, offers for the potential 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 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 e mail. He didn’t touch upon whether or not Urias can be suspended on account of Sunday’s arrest.