• Submitted by: Camila
• Sports
• 02 / 21 / 2015

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The player Luis Alberto Valdés was caught in an attempt to escape the Island with his wife, a few days after winning with his team the Caribbean Series in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said the government journalist Alejandro Céspedes Morejon in his blog Sports in Pinar.

Céspedes Morejon, sports commentator on television provincial Pinar del Rio, said the capture of Valdés would have occurred on Friday February 13.

The dung was Saturday at the Research Center of the Ministry of Interior in the province, according to Céspedes Morejon. This type of arrests usually last two to three days.

"This confirms suspicions that the absence of Pinar del Rio Valdés team participating in the 54th National Baseball Series and ignorance of his whereabouts by his family, was part of a possible illegal emigration from Cuba," the government journalist .

The escape attempt Valdes, 26, was rumored for several days. Follow leakage Osniel Wood, Lazaro Alonso Rojas and Yoel also Pinar del Rio, confirmed last Friday by the national commissioner of baseball, Heriberto Suárez.

Aggravates the situation of the payroll Vegueros, who had already lost in Puerto Rico to pitcher Vladimir Gutiérrez (main team's closer and Rookie of the Year in 2014), who escaped along the Matanzas Dainer Moreira during the Caribbean Series

Source: Diario de Cuba