Gooden Charged With Felonies

The Hillsborough County state attorney filed two third-degree felony charges of resisting arrest today against New York Mets pitching star Dwight Gooden, involved in a Dec. 13 scuffle with police that the prosecutor pledged would be dealt with in “a very stern fashion.”

Gooden, 22, was charged with resisting a police officer with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer. Each third-degree felony could carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine with conviction. Gooden and three other men arrested with him face trial Jan. 22.