By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI - A Miami man was charged on Thursday with alien smuggling for his suspected role in a conspiracy to bring Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Yasiel Puig to the United States from Cuba, according to court documents. Gilberto Suarez, 40, allegedly paid $250,000 to smugglers tied to the Los Zetas drug cartel to bring Puig to America in exchange for a cut of his expected Major League Baseball contract. In 2012, the now 23-year-old Puig signed a seven-year, $42 million contract with the Dodgers. His name emerged in a 2013 lawsuit filed in Miami as one of those said to have helped finance Puig's 2012 defection from the communist-governed island.
Miami man charged with smuggling Cuban baseball star to U.S.
Published September 11, 2014 at 5:35 PM
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