Why did lenny dykstra retire
In other words, you just don't make good decisions while high. According to Newsday , Dykstra's abuse of prescription drugs began in his playing days. When he appeared in court to face charges of fraud and money laundering in , papers filed with the court acknowledged that as a player, Dykstra regularly used Dexedrine, Adderall, and Vicodin. Considering how often Dykstra was injured, it's not terribly surprising he used painkillers and other drugs to get by.
After his playing days were over, however, he continued to abuse drugs. The same court filings admit that once retired he switched to alternative painkillers, most notably Percocet. Dykstra had long battled an alcohol problem as well. The New York Times reports that in Dykstra crashed his car, injuring himself and teammate Darren Daulton, and was found to have twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
In the court papers filed in , Dykstra admitted to drinking a liter of vodka a day. He was eventually sentenced to three years in prison. Lenny didn't learn much from his prison stint. Dykstra, 35, asked the Philadelphia Phillies to place him on the voluntary retired list rather than become a free agent on the last day for players to file.
He gave it his best shot, and at least he can go away saying he gave it a shot and it didn't work. Free-agent list. Nightengale: Free-agent notebook. After his retirement in and despite his growing family, Dykstra turned to drugs.
It was discovered that he, along with several other players, had used steroids in the MLB. When asked why he said he did it for his family. Dykstra and his wife divorced in , and he filed for bankruptcy the same year. His drug habit advanced into marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy, and his problems increased with charges for indecent exposure and sexual battery, as well as grand theft auto.
He served time in for bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, and money laundering. Dykstra served six-and-a-half months of a three-year sentence in federal jail for the bankruptcy fraud and grand theft auto. He was charged with two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure after prosecutors said exposed himself to six women who answered ads he placed on Craigslist between and April seeking a housekeeper or personal assistant.
He was sentenced in to nine months in jail after pleading no contest, according to CNN. The woman also claimed on her blog that she received emails from two other women who were not paid in full by Dykstra and that he stole one of their credit cards, the article states.
Dykstra was sentenced to three years in a California state prison in March after pleading no contest to grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sentenced him after refusing to allow him to withdraw his plea and said the scam to lease high-end automobiles from dealerships by providing fraudulent information and claiming credit through a phony business "showed sophistication and extensive planning.
Dykstra pleaded not guilty to 25 counts after police arrested him in June and allegedly found cocaine, ecstasy and synthetic human growth hormone at his Los Angeles home. He changed his plea in October to no contest and in exchange prosecutors dropped 21 counts. Dykstra was released from prison in July after serving six and a half months of his sentence. Associated Press photo. Associated Press. The indictment stemmed from a bankruptcy case that Dykstra filed on in He was accused of removing, destroying and selling property that was part of the bankruptcy estate without the permission of the bankruptcy trustee, the article states.
His prison term ran concurrently with the three-year sentence in the grand theft auto case. Rossi told TMZ that Dykstra offered to help her sell jewelry and that he kept everything except for a pair of diamond earrings. Rossi said that the earrings she got back were fake. According to a report from the New York Post, Dykstra allegedly checked in with a woman to a Hamptons hotel in August for a two-night stay and by the end of it, he was accused of damaging it, smoking marijuana and stealing towels, bedsheets and the receptionist's sunglasses.