Posted on 09/03/2004 5:35:33 AM PDT by nuconvert
Tigers Closer's Mom Kidnapped
Thursday, September 02, 2004
CARACAS, Venezuela — The mother of Detroit Tigers (search) pitcher Ugueth Urbina (search) was kidnapped by four unidentified men disguised as police officers, police said Thursday.
The men took Maura Villareal from a house owned by Urbina in suburban Caracas on Wednesday, said Joel Rengifo, director of the country's anti-kidnapping police force. The men have not contacted family members, he said.
The Tigers said Urbina had left the club to go to Venezuela (search), and the team is working with major league baseball and its Venezuelan contacts to assist the pitcher.
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Ransom, no doubt.
That would certainly explain his poor performance against the Royals on wednesday.
Bengal Bump
Those bastards. Good luck Ugie!!!! Hang in there Ugie's mom!
That is what happens when you let a creep like Hugo Chavez run the country. We need to get him out of there ASAP.
All the best to Ugie's mom, but what WAS she thinking when she named him Ugeuth Urtain Urbina?
Well, Carter says it was a fair election, so must have been. * BARF!*
Carter's definition of a fair election is one the left wins.
Richard Hidalgo, another ballplayer from Venezuela, was shot during a carjacking a year or so ago. Sounds like a scary place to be.
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