A Few Million Pesos Later, Angel Villalona Is A Free Man, For Now

Angel Villalona, the Giants prospect accused of fatally shooting a man in his native Dominican Republic, is out on bail and out 2 million pesos, too, having reportedly paid the victim's family to drop charges against him. That's $55,000. Prosecutors have vowed to proceed anyway. The San Francisco Chronicle explains: Villalona, 19 - who three years ago became the most expensive minor-leaguer ever signed by the Giants, at $2.1 million - still faces a charge that he shot a man to death in September in a wild bar fight in his hometown of La Romana, Dominican Republic. But the no-bail hold he had been under was relaxed because the family and prosecutor have not been able to pin a motive for the shooting on Villalona, Cedano [Jose Arturo Cevallos Cedano, Villalona's lawyer] said. "Angel was just there with a friend," Cedano said. "There was no evidence that he did the shooting." Prosecutor Jose Antonio Polanco, however, told The Chronicle the only thing th...