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Dwight Gooden, the former standout pitcher for the Mets and Yankees, was arrested last month in New Jersey and charged with cocaine possession and driving under the influence.
The police in Holmdel, a township in Monmouth County, said they pulled Gooden over just before 1 a.m. on June 7. According to Christopher Swendeman, a spokesman for the Monmouth County prosecutor’s office, Gooden was stopped for failure to maintain a lane, driving too slowly and overly tinted windows. According to the criminal complaint, the police found Gooden with two zip-lock baggies “containing suspected cocaine.”
Gooden, 54, faces up to five years in prison on the charge of possession of a controlled dangerous substance, a third-degree felony in New Jersey.