Overview
- Officers responded around 6:20 p.m. Saturday to the Chain of Lakes Complex in Winter Haven during a multi-team travel event.
- Investigators report that 38-year-old Yosmany Fernandez confronted and punched the umpire’s father in the stands after the warning.
- The umpire left the field to aid his father and was punched by 25-year-old Marcos Aballi as a 17-year-old player kicked the umpire during the melee.
- The umpire and his father suffered injuries, and the umpire was treated at a hospital.
- Police charged Aballi, Fernandez and the 17-year-old with battery on a sports official, and noted Fernandez had prior encounters with the victims; the two adults were booked into the Polk County Jail.