(NEW YORK) — Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase was arrested by FBI agents upon arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City on Thursday, as he surrendered following his indictment this month in connection with an alleged sports gambling scheme.

Clase, who had traveled from the Dominican Republic, is due in Brooklyn federal court Thursday afternoon for arraignment on the indictment charging him with rigging pitches so sports bettors could make hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent bets.

Clase and fellow Guardians pitcher Luis Leandro Ortiz allegedly conspired with sports bettors to rig pitches they threw so the bettors would profit from illegal wagers, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and the FBI said.

According to the indictment, Clase started conspiring with sp

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