BY DAVE RAGAZZO
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
If you thought the outlook was bad for this year’s New York Mets, it is going to be a whole lot worse for one former Met.
Lenny Dykstra, a member of the 1986 world champion Mets team, was sentenced to three years in a California state prison. On Monday he plead no contest to grand theft auto and providing false financial statements, reported the Associated Press.
Dykstra was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ulfig after she refused to allow him to withdraw his plea. Ulfig explained that Dykstra’s crime showed “sophistication and planning,” and because of this he had to see jail time.
"He obviously didn't have the money to get the vehicles," Ulfig said Monday. "His conduct was indeed criminal."
Dykstra fought hard to get probation but was not granted that sentence. He tried to show the court that he was a changed man and that if granted probation he would do everything he could to stay clean and out of trouble.
