{"id":6352,"date":"2025-05-15T14:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rafael-furcal-arrested-in-florida-serious-charges-for-assault-and-battery\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:07:38","slug":"rafael-furcal-arrested-in-florida-serious-charges-for-assault-and-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/rafael-furcal-arrested-in-florida-serious-charges-for-assault-and-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Furcal Arrested in Florida: Serious Charges for Assault and Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League shortstop and three-time All-Star, Rafael Furcal, was arrested this week in Broward County, Florida.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to court records, the 47-year-old former baseball player, a Weston resident, surrendered on Wednesday to face two felony charges related to an incident that occurred on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Serious Charges<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Furcal faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and throwing missiles at dwellings, vehicles, buildings, or aircraft, according to information available online.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office (BSO), in charge of the investigation, has not yet provided details about the incident.<\/p>\n\n<p>Furcal owns a residence valued at $5.1 million in the Windmill Reserve community in Weston, according to county property records.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Major League Career<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Born in the Dominican Republic, Furcal had a distinguished 14-season career in Major League Baseball, playing primarily with the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>National League Rookie of the Year in 2000.<\/li><li>Won a World Series in 2011 with the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>He retired after a brief stint with the Miami Marlins in 2014.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is not Furcal&#8217;s first legal problem. During his time in Atlanta, he was arrested twice for driving under the influence of alcohol, in 2000 and 2004.<\/p>\n\n<p>As of the time of this publication, Furcal was no longer listed in the BSO system&#8217;s active inmate list.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League shortstop and three-time All-Star, Rafael Furcal, was arrested this week in Broward County, Florida. According to court records, the 47-year-old former baseball player, a Weston resident, surrendered on Wednesday to face two felony charges related to an incident that occurred on Monday. Serious Charges Furcal faces charges of aggravated assault with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[867,88,2289,2290],"class_list":{"0":"post-6352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-arrest","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-crimes","10":"tag-rafael-furcal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}