{"id":76387,"date":"2026-01-02T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76387\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:49:07","slug":"ex-mlb-star-dykstra-to-be-charged-with-drug-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76387\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MLB star Dykstra to be charged with drug possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra was in possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia during a state police traffic stop on New Year\u2019s Day, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police at Blooming Grove stopped an SUV on Route 507 in Greene Twp. for a traffic violation just after midnight on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, they found Dykstra, 62, of Scranton, a passenger in the vehicle, to be in possession of \u201cnarcotics and narcotic related equipment\/paraphernalia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with the Times-Tribune of Scranton in October of 2024, Dykstra admitted to abusing drugs, but said he didn\u2019t consider himself an addict.<\/p>\n<p>Dykstra\u2019s 11-year-baseball career was split between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, including winning\u00a0a World Series championship as a member of the 1986 Mets and a successful transition to the Phillies in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>State police plan to file charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra was in possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia during a state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[11009,39321,5553,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-76387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-drugs","9":"tag-dykstra","10":"tag-narcotics","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}