Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra was sentenced last week to three years in prison for grand theft auto, said the New York Post. Dykstra, 49, was sentenced in Los Angeles after a trial revealed a scheme to lease expensive cars from dealers by giving phony financial and credit information. “He obviously didn’t have the money to get the vehicles,” said Judge Cynthia Ulfig. The troubled former ballplayer, who built a fortune and then lost it, has been charged in recent years with drug possession, indecent exposure, and bankruptcy fraud.
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