NEW YORK (CBS Sports) — When New Jersey police arrested former MLB outfielder Lenny Dykstra in May and charged him with making terroristic threats during an Uber ride, they weren’t exaggerating. Or at least that’s what police reports obtained by My Central Jersey and shared by USA Today seem to suggest.
The 55-year-old Dykstra was arrested outside the Linden, N.J., police station around 3:30 a.m. on May 23 after, as Nick Muscavage reported, “officers were alerted to a vehicle that sped into the attached parking garage” — an Uber vehicle whose driver apparently exited the car “screaming for help.