LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Police in Boca Raton, Fla., said Thursday they arrested Reginald St. Fleur, 20, and charged him with armed burglary of the documents that have become a primary item of discussion in Alex Rodriguez’s appeal against Major League Baseball.
St. Fleur, an employee at Boca Tanning, is accused of breaking into two vehicles in the parking lot of that business and taking paperwork from Biogenesis, the shuttered South Florida anti-aging clinic, from the car of Porter Fischer. Dan Mullin, the senior vice president of MLB’s department of investigations, wound up purchasing what’s believed to be those very documents from a man named Gary Jones for $25,000 in cash, after paying $100,000 in cash to Jones for other Biogenesis information.
Fischer, prior to that incident, took the documents from Biogenesis owner Anthony Bosch, who became MLB’s star witness against Rodriguez and whose evidence also led to 13 other players being suspended. Fischer gave the documents to the Miami New Times, which initially broke the story of Rodriguez’s involvement in Biogenesis in January.
As The Post reported first on Oct. 18, MLB COO Rob Manfred testified during Rodriguez’s appeal hearing that he didn’t know the documents were stolen.
The theft from Fischer’s car occurred on March 25 of this year. Fischer, who earlier had engaged with MLB investigators and publicly has expressed his curiosity whether MLB was involved with the theft, told officers a .32 Beretta pistol, cash, gym clothes, electronics and documents were stolen from trunk and passenger compartment of his car.
According to the police report posted on the department’s website, police targeted St. Fleur after testing blood on Fischer’s car for DNA. St. Fleur has denied any involvement with the alleged theft of the documents.
It is not clear how the paperwork made its way from St. Fleur to Jones, but the whole matter has boosted Team A-Rod’s efforts to paint MLB’s investigation as shady. Jones has signed an affidavit with A-Rod’s lawyers attesting that he sold the information to MLB.