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Retired baseball star Dwight Gooden was arrested in New Jersey last month and charged with possession of cocaine. Police arrested him on June 7 for improper driving and tinted windows too dark. New York Post reports. Officers said they found plastic bags containing suspected cocaine, according to the complaint. Gooden has been charged with third degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug addiction props and being under influence. He also received a ticket for driving under the influence. Gooden, 54, did not appear in court for the charges against him. Newsday.
Gooden, who has played for several teams but is best known as Met and Yankee, has been dealing with drug and drug charges since the mid-1980s. In 1986, he missed Put after the team won the World Series, because, he said later, he had consumed a lot of cocaine at a party. Newsweek. In 2016, former teammate Darryl Strawberry, who has also beaten him against addiciton, said that Gooden had made a relapse after missing a scheduled appearance. In 2006, at a hearing on probation violations, Gooden told a Florida judge that he preferred to go to prison than to undergo a rehab or a new probation because he said: "I have a cocaine problem, sir." (Read more stories about cocaine.)
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