Judge rebukes prosecutors for accusing Angels of being evasive in Eric Kay drug case

A view of a Los Angeles Angels jersey with a patch to honor Tyler Skaggs, who wore the No. A federal judge sharply criticized the effort by prosecutors to compel the Angels to comply with a subpoena in the case against former employee Eric Kay and rejected their attempt in an order unsealed Tuesday. “The government apparently has no idea what specific items it wants from the Angels; indeed, it has no idea whether any items other than those already produced even exist,” U.S. District Judge Terry Means wrote in the five-page document initially filed Oct. 7 in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth. The government has wholly failed to present any evidence tending to suggest otherwise.” Kay is accused of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone and fentanyl since at least 2017 and with distributing the fentanyl that prosecutors allege led to pitcher Tyler Skaggs’ overdose death in a Texas hotel room on July 1, 2019. Those documents included “all records related to Kay and his communications with …” The Angels asked Means to unseal his ruling last month, noting in a court filing the document didn’t contain any non-public information.