Incidents
At approximately one in the morning on May 7, 1991, Dykstra crashed his red
Mercedes-Benz SL 500[45] into a tree on Darby-Paoli Road in
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania after attending the bachelor party of teammate
John Kruk. Dykstra suffered broken ribs, a broken
collarbone and a broken facial bone, in addition to second-degree burns on his left arm and lower back.
Darren Daulton, also a former teammate, was a passenger in the car at the time; his injuries included an injured eye and a broken facial bone. According to Radnor Township Police, Dykstra's
blood alcohol content was measured at 0.179% shortly after the crash.
In 1999, he was arrested for
sexual harassment of a 17-year-old girl who worked at his car wash, but the criminal charges were later dropped.
In March 2009, press reports alleged that Dykstra's businesses were facing financial ruin and that he had used offensive terms when speaking about blacks, women and homosexuals.
In September 2009, he was banned from both of his foreclosed multimillion-dollar properties in Lake Sherwood, from which security officers were instructed to deny him access. He was accused of vandalizing the properties and not maintaining homeowners' insurance on them, and the court assigned a trustee to manage them.
In December 2010, Dykstra was accused of hiring a female escort and then writing her a bad $1,000 check: adult-entertainment star and escort Monica Foster claimed he had hired her on December 13, 2010 and then wrote her a worthless check. Monica Foster later posted a copy of the check on her blog.
In January 2011, Dykstra was accused of
sexual assault by his housekeeper, who alleged that he would force her to give him oral sex on Saturdays. The woman told investigators "she needed the job and the money, so she went along with the suspect’s requests rather than lose her job,” according to the filing, and “returned to work in the suspect’s home with knowledge obtained from the Internet about a claim of sexual assault by another woman.”
On April 14, 2011, Dykstra was arrested and charged with bankruptcy fraud. The Los Angeles Police Department Commercial Crimes Division also arrested Dykstra on separate grand theft charges related to the purchase of vehicles. He was held on $500,000 bail.
On June 6, 2011, Dykstra was arrested and charged with 25 misdemeanor and felony counts of
grand theft auto,
identity theft, filing false financial statements and possession of
cocaine,
ecstasy and the human growth hormone (HGH) known as
SomatropinHe first pled not guilty to the charges, but later changed his plea to no contest to grand theft auto and providing false financial statements in exchange for dropping the drug charges. On March 5, 2012, after unsuccessfully trying to withdraw his nolo-contendere plea, he was sentenced to three years in state prison,
[55] receiving nearly a year's credit for time already served.
On August 25, 2011, Dykstra was charged with
indecent exposure. The Los Angeles City Attorney accused him of placing ads on
Craigslist requesting a personal assistant or housekeeping services. The victims alleged that when they arrived, they were informed that the job also required massage service. Dykstra would then disrobe and expose himself.
This dude has lived quite the life. 
face throughout the whole interview!
