Former Mets stars Octavio Dotel and Luis Castillo were released from jail on Thursday after a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to link them to drug kingpin Cesar Emilio Peralta.
Dotel, 45, and Castillo, 43, were charged last week with being members of Peralta’s cocaine and opioid empire, in what Dominican Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez said was the largest operation targeting an organized crime ring.
But the ex-ballplayers were released from prison Thursday after Judge Jose Alejandro Vargas found insufficient evidence to link them to Peralta, according to various news reports in the Caribbean nation.