Baseball agent Bart Hernandez indicted on charges of alien smuggling

Bart Hernandez, a baseball player agent who has specialized in representing Cuban defectors, has been indicted on charges of alien smuggling by a federal grand jury in Miami, where he was arrested early Friday by agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

Hernandez has been affiliated with the Miami-based agency Praver Shapiro and has represented a handful of Cuban stars on Major League Baseball rosters, including Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox, Adeiny Hechavarria of the Miami Marlins, Jorge Soler of the Chicago Cubs and Leonys Martin of the Seattle Mariners.

According to the indictment, Hernandez conspired with two already-convicted Cuban alien smugglers, Eliezer Lazo…