The charge is among two similar cases involving three men, including two former law enforcement officers, who were arraigned in federal court Tuesday:
Bobby Brown, 38, of Vian, was charged with possession with the intent to distribute and manufacture anabolic steroids, distributing to persons younger than 21, and selling within 1,000 feet of Vian High School.
Dusty Lee Burns, 29, of Checotah, and Jimmy Russell Hamm II aka “Rusty” Hamm, 31, were charged with drug conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute and manufacture anabolic steroids.
All of the defendants pleaded not guilty in federal court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
Hamm is a former Creek Nation Lighthorseman and Burns is a former McIntosh County reserve deputy sheriff. Their alleged crimes occurred from around September 2005 until June 2008.
Brown’s alleged crimes took place between March 2006 and June 2008.
Brown is accused of distributing to three individuals, two of which are minors identified in the indictment by their first and last initials, and “others.”
The defendants were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 11. The indictments were not unsealed until Tuesday at the defendents’ initial court appearance.
U.S. Attorney Sheldon Sperling said evidence does not strongly support that Brown was working in conjunction with Burns and Hamm, but said the indictments stemmed from the same investigation."
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