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2:07 PM PT — New police video shows Ozuna told a cop he had celebrated the Braves’ big win over the Mets on Thursday night with a few beers before he was ultimately arrested for DUI on Friday morning.
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In the footage, you can clearly hear Ozuna tell an officer, “We win today and we just kind of celebrated.” He did add, though, that he thought he was completely fine to drive.
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“I’m good, my man,” he said.
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Multiple times during the stop, according to the video, Ozuna referenced his status as a Braves player — even saying at one point, “I’m just famous.”
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The footage also shows Ozuna — who had roughly $8,000 worth of cash in his right front pocket — needed to pee so badly following his arrest, officers let him out his cuffs so he could relieve himself on a bush.
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1:32 PM PT — Ozuna just addressed the arrest with reporters a few hours before the Braves’ Friday night game … and he said he was “disappointed” about it all.
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Marcell Ozuna’s statement. He did not take questions pic.twitter.com/I6MyVpZhfC
— Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) August 19, 2022
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“I disappointed my team, disappointed my family,” he said. “And I don’t have anything to say more, and it’s a legal matter.”
Marcell Ozuna pulled the celeb card during his DUI arrest on Friday morning — telling a cop during the stop, “Sorry, I’m Ozuna from the Braves” … this according to a new police report obtained by TMZ Sports.
In the docs, a Norcross Police Dept. officer said he pulled over Ozuna — who was driving in a black 2021 Mercedes-Benz — at around 3:35 AM after he says the MLB slugger was speeding in a 35 MPH zone while failing to stay in a lane.
Moments after being stopped, Ozuna allegedly told the officer, “Sorry, sorry, I’m Ozuna from the Braves.” The baseball player’s car reeked of booze, the police officer said in the report. The officer also claimed Ozuna had red and watery eyes.
Ozuna told the cop, according to the docs, that he was in Norcross heading to “the party.” The officer said that he later learned the 31-year-old was on his way to “a nearby after-hours nightclub.”
When Ozuna went to hand his driver’s license to the cop, the officer said in the docs he also handed over an MLB ID card showing that he played for the Braves.
According to the report, just before administering field sobriety tests on Ozuna, the outfielder admitted he had drank “like three or four” beers before getting behind the wheel.
“If I’m drunk, if I can’t drive, I do like this,” the officer said in the docs, claiming Ozuna — who allegedly had $8,000 in cash in his pocket — “motioned for me to take his car key.”
After administering three tests, the officer arrested Ozuna. But, according to the cop, Ozuna refused both a breath test and a blood test.
Records show he was eventually booked on charges of DUI and failure to maintain lane.
Hours before the arrest, the Braves had won a huge game over the Mets in Atlanta — but Ozuna did not play in the contest.
This is the second time Ozuna has been arrested in the last 15 months — he was previously taken into custody in May 2021 after he was accused of roughing up his wife in an incident in Sandy Springs, GA.
Ozuna — who agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion program to close out the case a few months after the incident — was suspended 20 games by the MLB over it all.
He later said before this season began that he apologized to his teammates, adding, “I made a mistake.”
Marcell Ozuna on returning to #Braves after last year’s arrest on domestic violence charges. pic.twitter.com/cmH4MPpzoW
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Ozuna has played in 107 games for the Braves this season … batting .214 with 20 home runs.
Originally Published — 7:36 AM PT