Retired professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra faces charges after Pennsylvania State Police said a trooper found drugs and paraphernalia in his possession during a traffic stop on New Year’s Day. <\/p>\n
Dykstra, 62, was a passenger when the vehicle was pulled over by a trooper with the Blooming Grove patrol unit in Pike County, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Scranton, where Dykstra lives.<\/p>\n
Police said in a statement that charges will be filed but did not specify what they may be or what drugs were allegedly involved. <\/p>\n
Matthew Blit, Dykstra\u2019s lawyer, said in a statement that the vehicle did not belong to Dykstra and he was not accused of being under the influence of a substance at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the extent charges are brought against him, they will be swiftly absolved,\u201d Blit said.<\/p>\n
Dykstra’s gritty style of play over a long career with the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies earned him the nickname \u201cNails.\u201d He spent years as a businessman before running into a series of legal woes.<\/p>\n
Dykstra served time<\/a> in a California prison for bankruptcy fraud, sentenced to more than six months for hiding baseball gloves and other items from his playing days. That ran concurrent with a three-year sentence for pleading no contest to grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement. He claimed he owed more than $31 million and had only $50,000 in assets.<\/p>\n In April 2012, Dykstra pleaded no contest to exposing himself to women he met through Craigslist.<\/p>\n In 2019, Dykstra pleaded guilty on behalf of his company, Titan Equity Group, to illegally renting out rooms in a New Jersey house that it owned. He agreed to pay about $3,000 in fines. <\/p>\n