Grand Theft Auto - Former Met Lenny Dykstra Pleads To Auto Theft Reuters

LOS ANGELES Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:45pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former New York Mets superstar Lenny Dykstra pleaded zero competition with Wednesday that will lavish robbery auto charges stemming through precisely what prosecutors said seemed to be a structure to be able to rent autos employing bogus organization and credit information.

Dykstra, 48, accessed his plea, roughly the same as guilty in California, by carrying out a reading within Los Angeles Superior Court. In improvement to be able to three matters regarding awesome larceny auto, your dog likewise pleaded absolutely no tournament to at least one count connected with submitting false financial statements.

The onetime World Series persona faces your highest charges associated with four ages inside prison when he appears prior to your court pertaining to sentencing inside January.

Dykstra plus a couple affiliates were charged involving building a scheme, beginning earlier this kind of year, for you to hire high-end vehicles from dealerships using fraudulent data in addition to claiming consumer credit by way of a phony business known as Home Free Systems.

Although they were turned down during a couple of dealerships, prosecutors charge, these people drove down having about three cars and trucks through another business.

Dykstra, nicknamed "Nails" in the course of his baseball career, invested in excess of a decade from the Major Leagues, largely as a possible outfielder for any New York Mets and also Philadelphia Phillies.

He nevertheless fronts two additional and unrelated felony prosecutions. An indictment returned by just a federal great jury in May accuses Dykstra of taking as well as wrecking quite a few $400,000 with house that has been part of his chapter 13 case.

Then inside August, your dog has been billed in Los Angeles together with exposing herself to be able to some sort of stringed involving girls that clarified on the net work advertising he / she posted.

(Reporting through Alex Dobuzinskis ; editing by simply and Cynthia Johnston)