The accused batterer was tossed out.
Former World Series MVP Manny Ramirez was released on $2,500 bail yesterday after facing charges he slugged his wife.
The Major League disgrace, who abruptly retired upon testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs earlier this year, was so enraged by questions about his arrest that he threw a reporter’s microphone out a car window.
“That’s a closed case,” Ramirez said in Spanish when asked about the incident.
When another reporter asked for further comment, he added in English, “That’s my problem, that’s not your problem.”
Ramirez, 39, who faces as much as a year in jail if convicted, spent the night in the Broward County jail after his arrest.
On a recording of a 911 call released by the sheriff’s office, his wife, Juliana Ramirez, 32, says, “My husband just hit me.”
When the dispatcher asks where she was struck, Juliana replies, “My face and my head, in the bed. I have a bump on my head.”
The dispatcher then asks if Juliana has a safe room to get away from her husband.
“He’s not doing anything anymore because he knows I’m calling the police,” she says. Later, Juliana told sheriff’s deputies she called 911 because she was afraid the situation would escalate.
A judge ordered Ramirez not to have direct contact with his wife.
Ramirez had told investigators that he grabbed his wife by the shoulders during an argument and “shrugged” her, causing her to hit her head on their bed.
According to a police report, his wife’s face was badly swollen, and she had a contusion on the back of her head that seemed consistent with her story.
With AP