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Former Mets star Dykstra indicted on drug, terroristic threat charges
NEW YORK, Oct 11, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Former New York Mets and Philadelphia
Phillies center fielder Lenny Dykstra has been indicted by a New Jersey grand
jury on charges of drug possession and threatening an Uber driver.
The charges stem from a May 23 incident in which the driver said Dykstra
pulled a weapon and threatened him when he refused to comply with Dykstra’s
desire to change his destination.
Dykstra faces charges of possession of cocaine and possession of
methamphetamine and of making a terroristic threat. A date for his
arraignment has not been set.
Dykstra “did threaten to commit any crime of violence with purpose to
terrorize” the unnamed driver, according to the prosecutor’s filing to the
Superior Court of New Jersey.
No weapon was found when the police arrested Dykstra, but authorities said
he had cocaine and methamphetamine on him when the frightened driver pulled
into the parking garage of a police station in Linden, New Jersey, and fled
his car.
Dykstra said in May that he was the victim in the incident, telling the New
York Daily News that the driver “went nuclear on me”.
Dykstra 55, was a member of the 1986 World Series-winning Mets team.
He has had previous brushes with the law since retiring in 1996, serving
three years in state prison after pleading no-contest in 2012 to a variety of
felony charges that included grand theft auto and drug offenses.
BSS/AFP/RY/08:35 hrs