{"id":387967,"date":"2026-01-03T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:10:11","slug":"former-mlb-player-lenny-dykstra-to-face-drug-charges-in-pike-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387967\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB player Lenny Dykstra to face drug charges in Pike County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges are pending against Lenny Dykstra.<\/p>\n<p>PIKE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A former Major League Baseball player was found with drugs in Pike County, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers stopped a pickup truck along Route 507 in Green Township around midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During the traffic stop, authorities say the passenger, Lenny Dykstra, 62, was found with drugs and drug-related paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Dykstra was a former center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1990s and won a World Series championship with the New York Mets in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges are pending against Lenny Dykstra. PIKE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A former Major League Baseball player was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-387967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}