By WFAN.com
Lenny Dykstra continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons.
The Mets' 1986 World Series Champion has apparently been causing issues for his neighbors near his residence in Linden, New Jersey.
NJ.com spoke to local residents and consulted public records to investigate complaints that Dykstra is running an illegal rooming house on his property. Linden City Councilwoman Gretchen Hickey has been fielding those complaints and leading the charge to remove Dykstra from the neighborhood.
"People are constantly moving in and out," Hickey told NJ.com. "(His neighbors) have no quality of life whatsoever. They live in fear … I think certain departments in this city have dropped the ball."
Dykstra's neighbors have complained about piles of garbage, fights, random people constantly moving in and out of the house, and construction noises in the middle of the night. The police have been called to the property multiple times and Dykstra has faced previous fines for housing illegal occupants.
The 55-year-old spent 12 years in Major League Baseball. He played four-and-a-half of those seasons for the Mets, and the rest for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Dykstra has had quite a bit of trouble with the law in recent years. In May 2018, he was arrested after an altercation with an Uber driver. He was subsequently charged with making terroristic threats and two counts of possession of a controlled substance after he was found with cocaine and methamphetamine. That case has not yet concluded.
He previously served six-and-a-half months in prison after pleading guilty to counts of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of bankruptcy property and money laundering following an incident where he secretly sold items from his house following a filing for bankruptcy.
