The Santo Domingo Este Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case of a 14-year-old minor who died in a hospital in the municipality of San Luis after he was allegedly injected with a performance-enhancing substance at a baseball boarding house.
Investigators are trying to determine the circumstances that led to the death of the young man Ismael Ureña Pérez and alleged injuries to two of his brothers, also minors.
The incident, according to a complaint filed in the Santo Domingo Este Prosecutor’s Office, would have occurred at the Yordy Cabrera Baseball Academy baseball boarding house, owned by former major league player Yordy Cabrera.
The minor’s parents reported that their son told them that they were mistreating him, so after checking his urine they proceeded to take him to the doctor, where he died.
His mother Iris Pérez stated that at the health center, they told her that her son was given a medication that is injected into horses to improve performance.
The information would have been confirmed by the teenager, but he refused to tell his parents.
Investigators are also trying to determine if it is true that two of his brothers who trained at the boarding house were injected, since their parents say they are suffering from tachycardia and vision problems.
The case was taken on by lawyer José Orlando Aracena Peña, from the Family Without Violence Foundation (Funfasinvi), who filed a complaint against the owner of the boarding house.
Last Tuesday, five lawyers from the aforementioned foundation filed a formal complaint in the Prosecutor’s Office of Santo Domingo Este against Yordy Cabrera, a former baseball player who runs the academy where the events would have occurred. They seek that, immediately, a measure of coercion be known and preventive detention be imposed on Cabrera, until the investigation is completed.
