"As Mark Mentzer waits to answer felony charges in an alleged plot to bomb Weir High School, his mother will serve six months' probation for giving him anabolic steroids while he was still a minor.
Karen Mentzer of Weirton pleaded no contest Monday to contributing to the delinquency of a minor before Hancock County Circuit Judge Martin Gaughan.
Hancock County Prosecutor James Davis Jr. said Mentzer gave the drug to her son, now 19, to use while lifting weights. Mark Mentzer was still 17 years old at the time.
Davis said in April 2008, school officials discovered two vials of powder containing nandrolone decanoate in Mark Mentzer's possession at the John D. Rockefeller Career Center in New Cumberland, a vocational school serving public school students in Hancock County.
That substance, commonly used to treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, is illegal without a prescription, Davis said.
When school authorities contacted Karen Mentzer seeking proof of a prescription for the steroids, Davis said she admitted to purchasing them over the Internet.
If she violates the terms of her probation, Davis said Karen Mentzer could be sentenced on the original felony charge of delivering a controlled substance to a minor, which carries a prison sentence of one to five years."
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