{"id":503840,"date":"2026-01-03T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/503840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:25:17","slug":"ex-mlb-star-dykstra-to-be-charged-with-drug-possession-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/503840\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MLB star Dykstra to be charged with drug possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra was in possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia during a state police traffic stop on New Year\u2019s Day, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police at Blooming Grove stopped an SUV on Route 507 in Greene Twp. for a traffic violation just after midnight on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, they found Dykstra, 62, of Scranton, a passenger in the vehicle, to be in possession of \u201cnarcotics and narcotic related equipment\/paraphernalia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/2024\/10\/18\/lenny-dykstra-nailing-it-in-scranton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview with The Times-Tribune<\/a> of Scranton in October of 2024, Dykstra admitted to abusing drugs, but said he didn\u2019t consider himself an addict.<\/p>\n<p>Dykstra\u2019s 11-year-baseball career was split between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, including winning\u00a0a World Series championship as a member of the 1986 Mets and a successful transition to the Phillies in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Dykstra played his final game with the Phillies and as a Major League Baseball player in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>State police plan to file charges.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach Dykstra were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra was in possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia during a state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,8917,66799,4,66800],"class_list":{"0":"post-503840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-drugs","10":"tag-dykstra","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-narcotics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115830451294882157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}