Dwight Gooden’s battle with addiction has been heavily publicized over the years and it seems he has relapsed once again.
The 54-year-old’s first bout with addiction came back in 1987 when he tested positive for cocaine, which made Major League Baseball force him into rehab.
Unfortunately, it did not stop there as he would suspended the entire 1995 season for cocaine and has been in and out of jail since retiring back in 2000.
He is now in trouble in 2019 after the NY Post reported Gooden was busted last month in New Jersey for possession of cocaine and driving under the influence.
“The retired pitcher, best known as “Doc,” was arrested June 7 by Holmdel police, who pulled him over just before 1 a.m. and allegedly found him with “two small green zip-lock style plastic baggies containing suspected cocaine,” according to a criminal complaint filed by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
Gooden was pulled over for driving too slowly on a highway, failing to maintain the lane and for having overly tinted windows, which are illegal in the Garden State, prosecutor’s spokesman Christopher Swendeman said.
He was charged with third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia and being under the influence at the time, the complaint obtained by The Post on Friday shows.”
It was just back in 2016 when he told The Post he was sober ever since entering rehab four years earlier.
Gooden went 194-112 with a 3.51 ERA across his 16 seasons with Major League Baseball.
