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Urías, 27, is about to be arraigned May 2 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on two counts of home battery and one rely every of injuring a partner/cohabitant/fiance/date/little one’s dad or mum, assault and false imprisonment, based on courtroom data.
The expenses had been filed just below three months after the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to file a felony case in opposition to Urías and as a substitute referred the matter to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for consideration of whether or not a misdemeanor case was warranted.
Urías, who turned a free agent on the finish of the 2023 season, was arrested Sept. 3 by police in Exposition Park following a much-publicized soccer match between LAFC and Inter Miami — that includes star Lionel Messi — at BMO Stadium. He was launched the subsequent morning on $50,000 bond.
According to a District Attorney’s Office cost analysis worksheet in January, the alleged sufferer within the case was Urías’ spouse, who was not recognized.
“They engaged in an argument whereby the defendant pushed the sufferer in opposition to a fence and pulled her by the hair or shoulders,” based on the doc. “Neither the sufferer’s accidents nor the defendant’s prison historical past justify a felony submitting. The case is accordingly referred to the town lawyer for misdemeanor submitting consideration.”
Urías was positioned on administrative depart by Major League Baseball days after his arrest, and the Dodgers issued a press release saying the group was cooperating absolutely with the investigation.
“The Dodgers take all allegations of the sort on this case very significantly, and we don’t condone or excuse any acts of home violence,” the group mentioned.
Urías was 11-8 through the 2023 season with a 4.60 earned-run common. He started his Major League Baseball profession with the Dodgers in 2016, and has a lifetime document of 60-25 with a 3.11 ERA.
He was suspended for 20 video games in 2019 by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred for an incident within the car parking zone of the Beverly Center on May 13 of that yr. TMZ reported {that a} witness known as police saying that Urías was arguing with a girl and shoved her to the bottom. Officers responded to the scene and spoke with the girl, who denied something bodily happened, insisting it was nothing greater than a heated argument.Urías was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor home battery in that incident, however no expenses had been filed.
