Former Mets celebrity Lenny Dykstra is dealing with drug costs following a site visitors cease in Pennsylvania on New 12 months’s Day, state police stated.
Dykstra, a member of the Mets’ 1986 World Collection-winning staff, was within the passenger seat seat of a 2015 GMC Sierra pickup truck when it was pulled over for “motor vehicle code violations” in Pike County close to Scranton, the place the 62-year-old lives.
Police stated that costs could be filed however didn’t specify what they could possibly be, nor what medicine have been allegedly concerned.
Dykstra’s lawyer, Matthew Blit, denied the allegations and stated in an announcement that he believes his shopper might be “swiftly absolved” within the case.
“Lenny Dykstra was merely a passenger in a vehicle that did not belong to him,” Blit stated. “Undeniably, the actual driver and owner was taken into custody at the scene under the suspicion of driving under the influence. Lenny was not accused of being under the influence of any substance at the scene, nor was he arrested or taken into custody at the scene.”
FILE – On this June 16, 2011 file picture, former baseball participant Lenny Dykstra seems in a courtroom in San Fernando, Calif. (AP Photograph/Nick Ut, File)
Dykstra has had his fair proportion of run-ins with the legislation. In April 2012, he pleaded no contest to exposing himself to ladies he met by means of Craigslist.
He additionally served time in a California jail for chapter fraud and cash laundering after pleading responsible to hiding baseball gloves and different memorabilia from his time within the MLB, which have been alleged to be part of his chapter submitting.
That six-month sentence ran concurrent with a three-year sentence for pleading no contest to grand theft auto and offering a false monetary assertion. He claimed that he owed greater than $31 million and had solely $50,000 in belongings, regardless of having hid or bought at the very least $200,000 price of things after submitting for Chapter 11 in 2009.
Six years after Dykstra was launched in jail in 2013, he pleaded responsible on behalf of his firm, Titan Fairness Group, to illegally renting out rooms in a New Jersey dwelling it owned, agreeing to pay about $3,000 in fines.
That very same 12 months, a decide dropped drug and terroristic menace costs in opposition to Dykstra stemming from an incident with an Uber driver in Linden, N.J. Police stated they discovered cocaine, MDMA and marijuana amongst his belongings, whereas the motive force claimed Dykstra held a gun to his head, although no weapon was discovered.
Lenny Dykstra of the New York Mets thrusts a fist within the air as he rounds the bases after his game-winning two-run dwelling run within the backside of the ninth inning of Sport 3 of the Nationwide League Championship Collection in opposition to the Houston Astros, Saturday, Oct. 11, 1986, in New York. (AP Photograph/G. Paul Burnett)
Previous to his authorized woes, Dykstra spent 12 years within the MLB, enjoying for the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. Along with being a World Collection winner, the centerfielder was additionally a three-time All-Star and a Silver Slugger winner. He final performed in 1996, although he launched a comeback try throughout spring coaching in 1998 earlier than lastly retiring on the age of 35.
