LOS ANGELES - Ex-baseball falling star Lenny Dykstra, already coating federal bankruptcy shark charges, was charged in a California maintain happening on Monday with trying to charter cars using phony business and accept information. Dykstra, best known for his post-season heroics for the New York Mets during their 1986 championship run, was also charged with possessing controlled substances after prosecutors rephrase a study of his territory turned up cocaine, Ecstasy and a false fallible evolution hormone. The 48-year-old one-time ballplayer was hit with a total of 25 flagitious counts by Los Angeles County prosecutors. He faces 12 years in articulate detention if convicted at trial. publicity | Also charged in the protection were his accountant, 27-year-old Robert Hymers, and crony Christopher Gavanais, 30.
At a run through hearing on Monday afternoon, Dykstra was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 handcuffs in a holding pattern a bail reassess on Friday. Prosecutors for example that beginning in January, Dykstra, Hymers and Gavanais tried to sublet a series of high-end automobiles from dealerships using duplicitous info and claiming depend on through a phony business, Home Free Systems. Though they were rejected at two dealerships, prosecutors charge, they drove off with three cars from another. In all Dykstra was charged with three counts of principal appropriation auto, five counts of attempted bottom-line snitching auto, eight counts of filing ersatz pecuniary statements, three counts of possessing a controlled affluence -- all felonies. He was also charged with two misdemeanors: guardianship of a controlled meat without a medicine and unofficial tenure of a syringe.
Dykstra was indicted by a federal lavish jury in May, accused of embezzlement or destroying some $400,000 in idiosyncrasy that was area of his bankruptcy case. He faces a limit judgement of up to 80 years in prison if convicted in that case, according to federal prosecutors. Dykstra, nicknamed "Nails" during his playing days, worn out 11 years in the important leagues, mostly as an outfielder for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, He is as the case may be best remembered by Mets fans for the 1986 season, when he struck a walk-off game-winning hospice seep in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. In Game 3 of the 1986 World Series, he also hit a clue lead-off household run, sparking a comeback by the Mets from a 2-0 series default to net the championship over the Boston Red Sox. Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters.
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