Angel Cabrera, former Masters, U.S. Open champ, sentenced to two years for assault
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Angel Cabrera will begin serving a two-year prison sentence immediately. (Nicolas Aguilera/Associated Press)
Angel Cabrera, a Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday in an Argentina court to two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting a woman with whom he formerly had a relationship.
Cabrera, 51, had been found guilty of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, his partner from 2016 to 2018. Cabrera denied wrongdoing during his trial in the province of Cordoba, which is roughly 500 miles from Buenos Aires. He was to begin serving the term immediately.
“His situation is much more complex than this, he has other charges for which there are arrest warrants, too,” prosecutor Laura Battistelli told Todo Noticias (via the Associated Press). “There are other victims.”
Those include his ex-wife, Silva Rivadero, and another former partner, Micaela Escudero, who claim he assaulted them. The first charges, however, were for assaulting Torres Mana, who said he punched and threatened her and attempted to run her over with his car in 2016, according to Argentina media.
The Cordoba province requested Cabrera’s arrest when he traveled to the United States last July without permission, and he was arrested by Interpol agents in January in Rio de Janeiro, then extradited to Argentina.
Argentina’s most successful golfer, Cabrera topped Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk in winning the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont by one shot. Two years later, he won a Masters playoff against Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell; he lost a Masters playoff to Adam Scott in 2013.
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Angel Cabrera, a Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday in an Argentina court to two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting a woman with whom he formerly had a relationship.
Cabrera, 51, had been found guilty of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, his partner from 2016 to 2018. Cabrera denied wrongdoing during his trial in the province of Cordoba, which is roughly 500 miles from Buenos Aires. He was to begin serving the term immediately.
“His situation is much more complex than this, he has other charges for which there are arrest warrants, too,” prosecutor Laura Battistelli told Todo Noticias (via the Associated Press). “There are other victims.”
Those include his ex-wife, Silva Rivadero, and another former partner, Micaela Escudero, who claim he assaulted them. The first charges, however, were for assaulting Torres Mana, who said he punched and threatened her and attempted to run her over with his car in 2016, according to Argentina media.
The Cordoba province requested Cabrera’s arrest when he traveled to the United States last July without permission, and he was arrested by Interpol agents in January in Rio de Janeiro, then extradited to Argentina.
Argentina’s most successful golfer, Cabrera topped Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk in winning the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont by one shot. Two years later, he won a Masters playoff against Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell; he lost a Masters playoff to Adam Scott in 2013.
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