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Former Oriole Charged With Battery, Arrested While Naked From Waist Down

MIAMI, Fla. (WJZ) -- A former Orioles outfielder was arrested Sunday night in Miami and charged with battery.

MASN reports Delmon Young was arrested after he allegedly choked a valet attendant at the Viceroy Hotel, where he is a resident, threatening to kill him after he was denied access to a club. He also used ethnic slurs.

According to ESPN, the police report claimed Young, 30, requested the valet open an elevator. When the valet said that the elevator was closed, Young replied, "Stupid Cuban, open the f****** door. I'm here. Now what?"

The valet again told him the elevator was closed, to which Young allegedly said: "I'm going to f****** kill you, you Latin piece of s***." That's when Young then began to choke the valet for approximately five seconds, according to reports, before the valet got free and ran off.

When police arrived at Young's residence to arrest him he was naked from the waist down and wobbly.

According to MASN, he told an officer "I'll slap you in the face with money, you (expletive) Cuban."

He was arrested and charged with a count of battery. He bonded out early Monday.

Young was arrested in 2012 in New York for aggravated harassment and suspended for seven games without pay.

In that incident, Young, a member of the Detroit Tigers at the time, was standing outside the team hotel in Manhattan when a group of Chicago tourists staying at the hotel were approached by a panhandler wearing a yarmulke and a Star of David around his neck, according to police.

Afterward, as the group walked up to the hotel doors, Young started yelling anti-Semitic epithets, police said.

It was not clear whom Young was yelling at, but he got into a scuffle with the Chicago group, and a 32-year-old man was tackled and sustained scratches to his elbows, according to police and the criminal complaint.

Both Young and the group went inside the hotel, and at some point, police were called, and Young was arrested, police said. Young was first taken to a hospital because he was believed to be intoxicated, police said.

Young apologized to his teammates and fans afterwards in a statement before being arraigned hours after his arrest.

"I take this matter very seriously," he said, "and assure everyone that I will do everything I can to improve myself as a person and player."

Currently Young is a free agent. He played for the Orioles for two seasons before he was released on July 9.

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