Angel Nunez: From pitching prospect to prison

Angel Nunez wanted to face big league hitters, not big-time drug charges.

[...] in 2009, the Dominican-born pitching prospect lost his baseball scholarship to the College of Saint Rose after a fight with another student.

Nunez, while living in Brooklyn, attended George Washington High School in upper Manhattan, where future Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians slugger Manny Ramirez once starred.

In March 2009, Nunez got into a fight with a male student which, according to Jurena, started because the student was intoxicated and began to become aggressive with his female companion.

Because of the arrest, and despite that fact that his case resulted in a non-criminal disposition, Angel lost his baseball scholarship.

"Due to all the injuries I had during my baseball career I started taking painkillers to withstand a normal day of activities and training," Nunez told the judge in his letter.

[...] Tuesday, Stanislav Petkevichus, 28, of Slingerlands, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute oxycodone he received from Nunez, was sentenced to served 96 days in jail already served and three years of supervised release, which includes six months of home detention.