MLB player Rafael Furcal's mugshot (Image: Broward County Jail)
Former MLB All-Star shortstop Rafael Furcal is facing a felony charge for an altercation in a grocery store parking lot last month. Furcal turned himself in to Broward County jail in South Florida, and was released on $7,500 bail.
It’s not Furcal’s first run-in with the law: he was arrested in 2000 and 2004 for driving under the influence.
According to court documents, the instigating incident was a near-crash in a parking lot. Furcal nearly drove head-on into a truck, which swerved away to avoid an accident.
The truck driver dropped his coworker off at the grocery store, and then turned by Furcal’s car again. At that point, Furcal allegedly began to throw rocks and plastic bottles at the truck – a situation that escalated when the driver emerged from the vehicle.
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The truck driver claims that Furcal then threw a larger rock, “the size of a small palm,” causing him to bleed profusely, before departing the scene.
Furcal, 47, played for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. He won the World Series with the Cardinals in 2011 and finished his MLB career with the Miami Marlins in 2014.
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