A few months ago, former Major League Baseball player Lenny Dykstra, 48, was charged with bankruptcy fraud for selling belongings from his $18.5 million mansion after he had filed for bankruptcy in 2009.
On Monday June 6, 2001, Lenny Dykstra was charged with grand theft auto and drug possession by prosecutors who claim he used phony information to lease a car from a Southern California dealership.
He was charged with 25 misdemeanor and felony counts of grand theft auto, attempted grand theft auto, identity theft and other
drug crimes.
His accountant and a friend were charged in connection with the alleged auto theft.
Prosecutors assert that the three men tried to lease high-end cars from dealers this year by providing phony information and claiming credit through a phony business called Home Free Systems.
Two dealerships rejected the lease applications but a third allowed the men to drive off with three cars.
Police who arrested Dykstra on April 14 found cocaine, Ecstasy and the synthetic human growth hormone Somatropin at his San Fernando Valley home.
Dykstra made a statement to the newspaper stating, "Of course I'm not guilty, the car got stolen alright - stolen by them. I don't have it anymore. It's gone like my computer, my phone, my clothes."
That may have been a reference to Dykstra's financial woes.
Dykstra spent 12 years in the big leagues and helped the Mets to the World Series championship in 1986. He was a three-time All-Star in the 1990s while with the Phillies.
He now faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.
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