Retired professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra is facing charges after Pennsylvania State Police said a trooper found drugs and paraphernalia in his possession during a traffic stop on New Year’s Day.
Dykstra, 62, was a passenger when a trooper with the Blooming Grove Patrol Unit stopped the car in Pike County, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Scranton, where Dykstra lives.
Police said in a statement that charges would be brought but did not specify what they were or what the alleged drugs were.
Dykstra’s attorney, Matthew Plett, said in a statement that the car did not belong to Dykstra, and that any charges against him “will be quickly cleared.”
“Lenny was not charged with being under the influence of any substance at the scene, nor was he arrested or detained at the scene,” Plett said.
Dykstra’s fearless playing style over his long career with the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies earned him the nickname “Niles.” He spent years as a businessman before running into a series of legal problems.
Dijkstra Time served In a California prison for bankruptcy fraud, he was sentenced to more than six months in prison for hiding baseball gloves and other items from his playing days. This coincided with his three-year prison sentence on charges of no contest to grand theft auto and making a false financial statement. He claimed he owed more than $31 million and had assets worth only $50,000.
In April 2012, Dykstra pleaded no contest to exposing himself to women he met through Craigslist.
In 2019, Dykstra pleaded guilty on behalf of his company, Titan Equity Group, to illegally renting out rooms in a home she owned in New Jersey. He agreed to pay fines of $3,000.
In the same year he became a judge Drug and terroristic threatening charges were dropped against Dykstra after an altercation with an Uber driver. Police said they found cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana among his belongings. Dykstra’s lawyer called this incident “exaggerated” and said he was innocent.
In 2020, New York Supreme Court Justice A Defamation suit Which Dykstra filed against former Mets teammate Ron Darling over his claim that Dykstra made racist remarks toward an opponent during the 1986 World Series.
Judge Robert D. Kalish said Dijkstra’s reputation “for unsportsmanlike conduct and intolerance” had already been so tarnished that it could not be damaged further.
“Based on the papers filed on this motion, prior to the book’s publication, Dykstra was notorious for being, among other things, a racist, misogynist, and homophobe, as well as a sexual predator, drug user, thief, and embezzler,” Kalish wrote.