Taipei, June 11 (CNA) The Rakuten Monkeys baseball team on Tuesday terminated the contract of outfielder Chiu Tan (邱丹) after he was caught the previous day driving under the influence.
The Monkeys, which is one of the six teams in Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), said the 23-year-old Chiu had breached the
According to the National Highway Police Bureau, the baseball player was found drunk driving following a breathalyzer test after he crashed his vehicle into a guardrail early Monday morning on a northbound section of National Freeway No. 1 near Madou in Tainan.
No one was injured in the apparent single-vehicle collision, the bureau said, indicating that the case has been handed to the Tainan District Prosecutors Office due to Chiu’s alleged offense against public safety.