A little over a week ago I wrote a short news hit that didn’t bring me any pleasure. That’s because it was about former Blue Jay Octavio Dotel being implicated in a serious drug trafficking and money laundering scheme.
The original story was that both Dotel and fellow former big leaguer Luis Castillo were being implicated in the operation, but it sounds like the situation has improved a great deal for them since then.
Local authorities in the Dominican Republic have cleared both Castillo and Dotel of charges of money laundering, according to an article from ESPN yesterday.