NEWARK, N.J. — The man in custody in the Dominican Republic on suspicion of shooting former baseball star David Ortiz was indicted Thursday on drugs and weapons charges unrelated to the shooting.
Rolfi Ferreira-Cruz was indicted in New Jersey on cocaine and heroin possession charges, a charge of conspiracy to distribute drugs and firearms possession, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark announced.
Ferreira-Cruz, 25, who was arrested last week, is among at least 11 people who have been arrested in the shooting so far.
Dominican authorities list his name as Rolfy Ferreyra. They said he has confessed to the shooting. New Jersey prosecutors did not address the difference in spelling but said the man they were looking for was the suspected shooter.
Ferreira-Cruz also faces state charges in New Jersey in connection with two armed robberies in 2017.
No attorney information is listed for the Reading, Pa., man.
In Reading, authorities are hunting for another suspect in the Ortiz shooting who’s also wanted for attempted homicide in the city in 2018.
According to a police affidavit, Luis Rivas-Clase — known in the Dominican Republic as “The Surgeon” — conspired with another man to shoot their victim in the back. He survived.
Court documents don’t list a defense attorney in the attempted homicide case.
Ortiz, 43, was shot in the back at a bar in the Dominican Republic on June 9 by a gunman who mistook him for the real target, Dominican officials said Wednesday.
Officials said the attempted murder was ordered from the United States by Victor Hugo Gómez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. They said Gómez had hired a gang of killers to eliminate his cousin, whom Gómez suspected of turning him in to Dominican drug investigators in 2011.
The cousin, Sixto David Fernández, was seated with Ortiz when a gunman approached and fired a single shot at Ortiz, the officials said.
The former Boston Red Sox star is in Boston recovering from surgery.
NEW YORK — Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is expected to be activated from the injured list Friday night to play against Houston, his first game since straining his left oblique on a swing April 20.
The 27-year-old right fielder was batting .288 with five home runs and 11 RBIs when he got hurt.
PHOENIX — Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story was placed on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right thumb.
Story was injured while sliding headfirst into second base trying to stretch a single into a double in the sixth inning of Wednesday night’s game, which the Rockies won 6-4.
CHICAGO — The New York Mets fired pitching coach Dave Eiland and bullpen coach Chuck Hernández and named Phil Regan interim pitching coach, Ricky Bones interim bullpen coach and Jeremy Accardo pitching strategist.
The 82-year-old Regan has been the Mets’ minor league assistant pitching coordinator since 2016 after spending 2009-15 as the pitching coach for St. Lucie of the Florida State League. The former pitcher managed the Baltimore Orioles during the 1995 season.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Elvis Andrus homered and had an RBI triple to back another impressive home start by Mike Minor as Texas earned a series split.
Minor (7-4) limited the Indians to three hits and one run over eight innings after they had scored 10 runs each of the last two nights. The lefty struck out four and walked three while throwing 70 of 110 pitches for strikes.
Danny Santana went deep in the Rangers’ eighth, his third homer in the four-game series and seventh overall. Andrus immediately followed with his seventh homer, his first since May 12 at Houston.
PHOENIX — Chris Iannetta’s two-run, bases-loaded single in the 10th inning lifted Colorado to a victory that completed a three-game sweep of Arizona.
Iannetta, a former Diamondbacks catcher, singled off the center-field wall against Yoshihisa Hirano (3-4) with one out to drive in Ian Desmond and Brendan Rodgers.