Leyritz arrested AGAIN

[Dr. Jack]

Former Yankee Jim Leyritz to spend weekend in jail after domestic battery arrest

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...,7755258.story

DAVIE - Former New York Yankee Jim Leyritz will be spending the Fourth of July weekend in jail following his arrest early this morning on charges of domestic battery, a Broward judge decided today.

Leyritz is accused of dragging his ex-wife out of bed and pushing her to the floor because she wrote a check without his permission, police say. Broward County Judge John Hurley set bail at $1,000 for that offense, but another judge revoked Leyritz's bond in a DUI manslaughter case stemming from a fatal 2007 crash.

His lawyer on the DUI case, David Bogenschutz, said he will ask Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold as early as possible next week to reconsider keeping Leyritz in jail. Bogenschutz said he will argue it has not been established that Leyritz violated the terms of his pretrial release. "That's the question: did he commit an offense, not that he was arrested for one," Bogenschutz said.

In the domestic battery case, Leyritz said his ex-wife, Karrie Leyritz, hurt herself to get back at him -- all because he wants to evict her from the house they share in the 9800 block of Ridge Trace.

"That's ridiculous," Karrie Leyritz said today. "Now all of a sudden I'm lying?"

Jim Leyritz, 45, was charged with simple domestic battery and booked at the Broward County Main Jail.

Karrie Leyritz called police from a neighbor's house, where she fled after the alleged argument, a police report said.

When officers arrived about 3 a.m., she was bleeding from a cut above her eye.

Police found streaks of blood on a wall at the Leytriz home, according to the report.

Karrie Leyritz told police what happened and admitted she had been drinking, the report said.

But police said in the report that the victim gave two "totally different" accounts of what happened.

First, she said she argued with her ex-husband in the foyer, then he hit her and pushed her to the ground.

Later, she said he dragged her out of bed and rammed her against the bedroom wall, the report said.

Karrie Leyritz denies giving two different versions of the story and says she was "misunderstood." The argument started in the bedroom, she said, and ended in the foyer.

Police woke up their three children, who apparently slept through the incident. The two children they spoke to didn't hear anything strange early this morning, the report said.

One child said he heard his parents argue earlier that evening, but that his mother was drunk and likely hit herself.

Jim Leyritz and one of the children said they heard Karrie Leyritz leave the house a few minutes before police arrived, and thought she had stepped outside for a cigarette, according to the report.

Karrie Leyritz said she's not surprised her son told police she made it all up.

"He's constantly hearing his father bad-mouth me," she said. "I can't control what my ex-husband says."

Jim Leyritz is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 14 for a fatal December 2007 crash in Fort Lauderdale.

Leyritz is accused of being legally drunk when he failed to heed a red light and collided with a car driven by Fredia Veitch, 30, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, killing the woman.

Leyritz played for six teams in 11 major league seasons, including a stint with the New York Yankees in which he hit a memorable 1996 World Series home run.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

[cman]

Wow....dude sounds like he needs to go to rehab in a bad way

wde

[PHILLYBIRDS20]

Gotta hang with this guy

[guzzi]

she drinkin wont fly...