Ex-Mets World Series champ Lenny Dykstra to face drug charges after Pennsylvania traffic stop

Lenny Dykstra could be facing more legal issues.

Dykstra, a member of the Mets’ 1986 World Series team, was allegedly in possession of drugs during a traffic stop just after midnight Thursday, Pennsylvania State Police records viewed by The Post show.

The 62-year-old, who lives in Scranton, was a passenger in a 2015 GMC Sierra truck that was stopped by police for alleged motor vehicle violations.

Dykstra was listed as the “arrestee” in the police report.

“During this investigation, the passenger was found to be in possession of narcotics and narcotic related equipment/paraphernalia. Charges to be filed,” the state police report said.

His lawyer, Matthew Blit, however, told TMZ on Friday night that Dykstra will be “absolved” in the case.

Former Met Lenny Dykstra appears during a press conference to promote their celebrity boxing fight in New York, NY on September 12, 2019. Christopher Sadowski

“Lenny Dykstra was merely a passenger in a vehicle that did not belong to him,” Blit told the outlet. “Undeniably, the actual driver and owner was taken into custody at the scene under the suspicion of driving under the influence. Lenny was not accused of being under the influence of any substance at the scene, nor was he arrested or taken into custody at the scene. To the extent charges are brought against him, they will be swiftly absolved.”

Dykstra, who played 12 seasons in MLB — including parts of five with the Mets — from 1985-96, has run into legal trouble numerous times in the past, and was most recently arrested in 2018 for drug possession and uttering terroristic threats to his Uber driver in Linden, N.J. He later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, while the third-degree terroristic threats charge was reduced to a petty disorderly persons offense.

The three-time All-Star has also been accused of sexual misconduct multiple times, first in 1999, when he was arrested for the alleged harassment of a 17-year-old girl who was an employee at his car wash — those charges were later dropped.

Then in 2011, Dykstra was accused of sexual assault by his housekeeper, who claimed that she “needed the job and the money so she went along with the suspect’s requests rather than lose her job,” according to the filing.

No charges ended up being filed.

New York Mets Lenny Dykstra (4) in action, at bat, hitting game winning home run vs Houston Astros at Shea Stadium. Sports Illustrated via Getty Ima

Later that year, he was arrested and subsequently charged with grand theft auto and drug possession, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2012.

In July 2012, Dykstra pleaded guilty in federal court to bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, and money laundering after admitting to hiding, destroying, and selling more than $400,000 worth of items that were a part of his bankruptcy filing in 2009.

His most recent legal battle was with former teammate — and current Mets TV broadcaster — Ron Darling, back in 2020.

Dykstra sued Darling for defamation after the ex-pitcher accused him of yelling racist taunts at Red Sox hurler Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd during the 1986 World Series.

A New York Supreme Court judge eventually threw out the lawsuit, saying that Dykstra was known as “among other things, racist, misogynist, and anti-gay, as well as a sexual predator, a drug-abuser, a thief, and an embezzler.”