Tampa Bay Rays' Wander Franco is scheduled to go to trial Dec. 12 in a sexual abuse case involving a 14-year-old girl. He was also charged with sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking.
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was involved in an armed altercation in a parking lot in the Dominican Republic countryside and was arrested, police said Monday.Tampa Bay Rays' Wander Franco is scheduled to go to trial Dec. 12 in a sexual abuse case involving a 14-year-old girl. He was also charged with sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking.
Meregirdo Espinosa, a Dominican police spokesman, told The Associated Press the altercation happened in a parking lot in San Juan de la Maguana, a city that is located 116 miles west of Santo Domingo. Franco was arrested Sunday. Another man and a woman were also detained, and two firearms were seized, police said.
Espinosa said one of the guns presumably belonged to Franco, who was allegedly fighting with the other man over the woman's attention.The 23-year-old Franco is scheduled to go to trial Dec. 12 in the northern province of Puerto Plata in a sexual abuse case involving a 14-year-old girl. He was also charged with sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking.
Franco was in the midst of his third major league season when his career was halted in August 2023. He agreed to an 11-year, $182 million US contract in November 2021. Tampa Bay placed him on the restricted list on July 10, cutting off the pay he had been receiving while on administrative leave.
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