{"id":504969,"date":"2026-01-04T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:01:20","slug":"former-mlb-player-lenny-dykstra-faces-charges-for-possession-of-narcotics-paraphernalia-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504969\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB player Lenny Dykstra faces charges for possession of narcotics, paraphernalia | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra has been arrested for drug possession during a state police traffic stop on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>A Blooming Grove Patrol Unit stopped a vehicle on Route 507 in Greene Twp. for a traffic violation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, police found Dykstra, 62, of Scranton, the passenger of the vehicle, in possession of narcotics and narcotic-related equipment\/paraphernalia, according to the news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say that charges will be filed at a later time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dykstra played 12 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets. He has served prison time for crimes including bankruptcy fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra has been arrested for drug possession during a state police traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63085,5,1242,4,3838],"class_list":{"0":"post-504969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-pennsylvania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115835547360089652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504969","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=504969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}