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The Sandy Springs, Georgia, police division arrested Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna on aggravated assault and misdemeanor battery costs Saturday.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported the news and relayed an announcement from the police division:
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From Sandy Springs, Ga., police: Officers allegedly witnessed Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna steal his wife by her neck and throw her in opposition to a wall. He additionally hit her with a solid on his arm, in accordance to the division’s unlock. pic.twitter.com/jArly4bEIk
A detention center info search on the Fulton County (Georgia) web position shows that Ozuna, 30, used to be arrested on two separate costs: aggravated assault strangulation and misdemeanor battery – household violence (first offense).
He is being held without bond on the Fulton County Detention center, per Alexis Stevens of the Atlanta Journal-Structure.
Per Passan, aggravated assault strangulation is a felony in Georgia. Convictions consequence in no much less than 300 and sixty five days in detention center and a most of 20 years.
Atlanta released a assertion following Ozuna’s arrest:
“We learned of Marcell Ozuna’s arrest earlier this evening and without prolong informed the Commissioner’s Jam of job. The Braves absolutely wait on Main League Baseball’s policy on domestic violence which stresses to the fullest that our society can no longer and can no longer tolerate domestic violence in any acquire. Except the investigation is achieved, we can maintain no additional observation and all inquiries into the topic ought to be referred to the Jam of job of the Commissioner.”
Atlanta re-signed Ozuna, who joined the crew as a free agent on a one-year contract in 2020, to a four-year, $64 million deal remaining February.
He is performed 48 video games for Atlanta this year and most no longer too lengthy ago took the self-discipline remaining Tuesday. On the other hand, Ozuna suffered fractured center and ring fingers on his left hand whereas sliding in a road sport in opposition to the Boston Crimson Sox that evening.
Atlanta positioned him on the 10-day injured checklist, and Ozuna revealed on Instagram (h/t Kevin McAlpin of Braves Radio Community) that he might maybe maybe presumably be out for six weeks.
Ozuna left the crew throughout its road day out, which currently has Atlanta taking half in in Original York in opposition to the Mets this weekend.
MLB is expected to open an investigation following Ozuna’s arrest, per Passan, who additionally tweeted that the outfielder “is also self-discipline to the league’s domestic-violence policy,” which contains a “doable suspension.”
