USA Today: Agent indicted in smuggling of Cuban ballplayers to USA

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Agent indicted in smuggling of Cuban ballplayers to USA
Updated 10/31/2006 10:57 PM ET

By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
A baseball agent who has represented Cuban defectors was indicted by a
Miami grand jury on Tuesday for allegedly smuggling ballplayers and other
Cuban nationals into the USA.

Gustavo "Gus" Dominguez, vice president of Total Sports International
in Encino, Calif., is charged as part of a 53-count indictment related
to two operations in 2004.

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A second smuggling operation on Aug. 22 succeeded, the indictment said.
The smugglers reached the Florida Keys with 19 Cubans, including five
baseball players.

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Castillo-Perez, 25, of Havana, is listed as a pitcher on the roster of
the Missoula Ospreys, a minor league affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks
in the Pioneer League. Osprey general manager and vice president Matt Ellis
did not return a phone message left at his office Tuesday afternoon.

Bueno-Trueba, 25, of Havana, is listed as a left-handed pitcher on the
roster of the Mississippi Braves, a Southern League affiliate of the Atlanta
Braves. The Braves office in Pearl, Miss., had closed for the day.

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