The three time All Star nicknamed "Nails" during his career is accused of being part a three man team who tried to lease high-end cars from dealers this year by providing phony information and claiming credit through a fake business called Home Free Systems. Cops also found cocaine, Ecstasy and the synthetic human growth hormone Somatropin at his San Fernando Valley home.
It's just the latest in a string of brushes with the law for the one time
World Series winner, as he was charged with more than a dozen federal counts, including bankruptcy fraud, just last month.
When he filed for bankruptcy two years ago, claiming he owed more than $31 million and had only $50,000 in assets.
But Federal prosecutors contend that he hid, sold or destroyed more than $400,000 worth of items from the $18.5 million mansion without permission of a bankruptcy trustee.
He faces a maximum sentence of up to 80 years in prison if convicted in that case.
But the 48-year-old who has now been charged with 25 misdemeanor and felony counts of grand theft auto, attempted grand theft auto, identity theft and other crimes, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
He faces up to 12 years in state prison if convicted.
He was jailed on $500,000 bail with a bail-review hearing set for Friday and Robison said Dykstra had not obtained a lawyer to represent him in the case.
Dykstra was bullish about the charges however, telling the New York Daily News: "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."
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