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Lenny Dykstra’s Streak of 2,771 Days Without an Arrest May Have Come to an End

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Jan 2nd, 2026 · 9:47 PM EST

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TMZ staff reporting on a New Year’s incident involving Nails:

Lenny Dykstra — a longtime major leaguer best remembered as a member of the 1986 New York Mets — may be facing drug charges.

According to a police report obtained by TMZ, Pennsylvania State Police pulled over a car in which Dykstra was a passenger on New Year’s Day after they say they saw the driver commit a motor vehicle code violation.

Officers list Dykstra as the “arrestee” on the documents, however his high-powered attorney Matthew Blit says that’s not the case.

Blit tells TMZ …”Lenny Dykstra was merely a passenger in a vehicle that did not belong to him. Undeniably, the actual driver and owner was taken into custody at the scene under the suspicion of driving under the influence. Lenny was not accused of being under the influence of any substance at the scene, nor was he arrested or taken into custody at the scene. To the extent charges are brought against him, they will be swiftly absolved.”

We’re gonna need some confirmation here because Nails was on a hot streak. He posted on December 25th that he had gone 2,764 consecutive days without getting arrested, so tack on the past week and it’s now been 2,771 days. If he was indeed arrested, the run is over, and we reset the clock. It he was not arrested, the streak remains alive. Perhaps we can get a report from NNN, the “Nails News Network.”

For Lenny, this is like Cal Ripken Jr’s Ironman streak. Nails has gone seven and a half years without an arrest. That’s when he threatened to kill a Linden Uber driver while in possession of cocaine and ecstasy, allegedly. But, to be fair, we’ve all wanted to kill someone while driving through North Jersey.

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