Mets Legend Lenny Dykstra
May Face Drug Costs After New 12 months’s Day Site visitors Cease
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Lenny Dykstra — a longtime main leaguer greatest remembered as a member of the 1986 New York Mets — could also be going through drug fees.
In accordance with a police report obtained by TMZ, Pennsylvania State Police pulled over a automotive wherein Dykstra was a passenger on New 12 months’s Day after they are saying they noticed the motive force commit a motorized vehicle code violation.
In the course of the visitors cease, officers declare they discovered Dykstra had “narcotics and narcotic associated tools/paraphernalia.” Officers checklist Dykstra because the “arrestee” on the paperwork, nevertheless his high-powered legal professional Matthew Blit says that is not the case.
Blit tells TMZ …”Lenny Dykstra was merely a passenger in a car that didn’t belong to him. Undeniably, the precise driver and proprietor was taken into custody on the scene underneath the suspicion of driving underneath the affect. Lenny was not accused of being underneath the affect of any substance on the scene, nor was he arrested or taken into custody on the scene. To the extent fees are introduced towards him, they are going to be swiftly absolved.”
Lenny performed within the huge leagues from 1985 to 1996 with the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. He was a three-time All Star, a Silver Slugger winner and a member of the 1986 World Collection champion Mets.
Like different notable members of that Mets workforce, Dykstra has a documented historical past of substance abuse points. He additionally served time in federal jail for fraud and cash laundering within the early 2010s.
