Deputy Bobby McNulty, 29, of 5135 Citrus Drive in Harahan, was booked with possession of 100 dosage units of Stanabol, a steroid.
Carroll was a 17-year veteran of the department, and McNulty was a 2-year veteran. Normand said the men have been implicated in a scheme involving Carroll's live-in girlfriend, Candy Brown, 35, that includes drug distribution and steroids use. McNulty and Carroll have both been terminated.
Karachi bodybuilders taking cow and buffalo steroids for extra muscles.
Various aspiring bodybuilders in Karachi are taking supplements containing anabolic steroids, which are also given to cows and buffaloes, in the hope of 'extra muscles' that could be dangerous for their health.
Apart from imported bodybuilding steroids, many also purchase unlabelled and substandard products. "Most of the bodybuilding clubs in the city provide these steroids to the trainees that are brought from Lahore and Gujranwala" the Daily Times quoted Rashid, a bodybuilder, as saying.
"These steroids are mostly those given to horses competing in races and to buffaloes and cows to increase milk production," he added. Rashid also said an aspiring bodybuilder named Jahangir had recently died after using such steroids.
Malik, a 46-year-old drug dealer at the medicine market in Kachi Gali near Napier Road sells a large variety of bodybuilding supplements, the prices of which range between Rs 500 and 5,000.
However, he denies that he sells supplements containing anabolic steroids."The supplements at my shop are imported from the USA and do not harm the human body... they are just food supplements and bodybuilders can use them instead of having meat, eggs, fruits and beans etc... they save time and help in weight control as well," said Malik.
On the other hand, Amir, an instructor at a bodybuilding club near Sabzi Mandi has no uncertainties about using steroids. He said, "A good body is a product of good diet, supplements, exercise and proper rest."
He said anabolic steroids are available at drug stores at Kachi Gali and other areas, but sold undercover.
Apart from imported bodybuilding steroids, many also purchase unlabelled and substandard products. "Most of the bodybuilding clubs in the city provide these steroids to the trainees that are brought from Lahore and Gujranwala" the Daily Times quoted Rashid, a bodybuilder, as saying.
"These steroids are mostly those given to horses competing in races and to buffaloes and cows to increase milk production," he added. Rashid also said an aspiring bodybuilder named Jahangir had recently died after using such steroids.
Malik, a 46-year-old drug dealer at the medicine market in Kachi Gali near Napier Road sells a large variety of bodybuilding supplements, the prices of which range between Rs 500 and 5,000.
However, he denies that he sells supplements containing anabolic steroids."The supplements at my shop are imported from the USA and do not harm the human body... they are just food supplements and bodybuilders can use them instead of having meat, eggs, fruits and beans etc... they save time and help in weight control as well," said Malik.
On the other hand, Amir, an instructor at a bodybuilding club near Sabzi Mandi has no uncertainties about using steroids. He said, "A good body is a product of good diet, supplements, exercise and proper rest."
He said anabolic steroids are available at drug stores at Kachi Gali and other areas, but sold undercover.
British Policeman in court on steroids supply charges.
A Police officer has appeared in court in connection with alleged drug dealing. Police Constable Darren Gilbert Towers is said to have been involved in a plot to supply anabolic steroids.
The Northumbria Police officer appeared briefly at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court to face three separate charges yesterday. Towers, 41, is a competitive body builder who has taken part in competitions at a national level.
The powerfully-built police officer appeared in court smartly dressed and spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address. Towers, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, has been suspended on full pay by bosses at Northumbria Police while the case progresses through the courts.
Towers faces one count of conspiring to supply a class C drug. He faces two charges of willful misconduct in a public office, for which the maximum penalty, if found guilty, is life in prison. Towers appeared in the dock alongside two other men.
Co-defendant Martin Robert Flett, 27, of Ely Way in Fellgate, Jarrow, faces one charge of conspiracy to supply a class C drug. Martin Fannan, 34, of Hudson Avenue, Horden, near Peterlee in County Durham faces a similar charge.
Anabolic steroids fall into the category of Class C drugs – making them similar in status to prescribed tranquillisers. Details of the charges against all three men were not read out in court other than confirmation that the drugs allegedly involved were anabolic steroids.
None of the three men were asked to enter pleas and magistrates were told that because of the serious nature of the charges the matter would need to be committed directly to Crown court.
They will all have to appear at Newcastle Court on Thursday, July 8. The men were granted unconditional bail. Towers didn’t speak to either of his co-defendants as he left court with his solicitor.
A statement from Northumbria Police said: “Darren Towers, 41, a serving Northumbria Police officer, has been charged with conspiracy to supply steroids and two counts of misconduct in a public office.
“Martin Flett, 27, of Ely Way, Fellgate, South Tyneside, and Martin Fannan, 34, of Hudson Avenue, Horden, County Durham, are both charged with conspiracy to supply steroids.”
Towers has publicly spoken about his bodybuilding in the past. Back in 2006 he competed in the final of the UK National Bodybuilding Championships. He revealed how he made it to the final of the competition by following a rigorous training regime and diet programme.
Towers revealed how he stuck religiously to a diet of protein rich foods including turkey, sweet potato, vegetables, rice, porridge in addition to protein supplements.
Apart from his eating programme, Towers revealed how he trained an average of six to seven days-a-week using a combination of gruelling weights sessions with cardiovascular workouts.
The Northumbria Police officer appeared briefly at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court to face three separate charges yesterday. Towers, 41, is a competitive body builder who has taken part in competitions at a national level.
The powerfully-built police officer appeared in court smartly dressed and spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address. Towers, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, has been suspended on full pay by bosses at Northumbria Police while the case progresses through the courts.
Towers faces one count of conspiring to supply a class C drug. He faces two charges of willful misconduct in a public office, for which the maximum penalty, if found guilty, is life in prison. Towers appeared in the dock alongside two other men.
Co-defendant Martin Robert Flett, 27, of Ely Way in Fellgate, Jarrow, faces one charge of conspiracy to supply a class C drug. Martin Fannan, 34, of Hudson Avenue, Horden, near Peterlee in County Durham faces a similar charge.
Anabolic steroids fall into the category of Class C drugs – making them similar in status to prescribed tranquillisers. Details of the charges against all three men were not read out in court other than confirmation that the drugs allegedly involved were anabolic steroids.
None of the three men were asked to enter pleas and magistrates were told that because of the serious nature of the charges the matter would need to be committed directly to Crown court.
They will all have to appear at Newcastle Court on Thursday, July 8. The men were granted unconditional bail. Towers didn’t speak to either of his co-defendants as he left court with his solicitor.
A statement from Northumbria Police said: “Darren Towers, 41, a serving Northumbria Police officer, has been charged with conspiracy to supply steroids and two counts of misconduct in a public office.
“Martin Flett, 27, of Ely Way, Fellgate, South Tyneside, and Martin Fannan, 34, of Hudson Avenue, Horden, County Durham, are both charged with conspiracy to supply steroids.”
Towers has publicly spoken about his bodybuilding in the past. Back in 2006 he competed in the final of the UK National Bodybuilding Championships. He revealed how he made it to the final of the competition by following a rigorous training regime and diet programme.
Towers revealed how he stuck religiously to a diet of protein rich foods including turkey, sweet potato, vegetables, rice, porridge in addition to protein supplements.
Apart from his eating programme, Towers revealed how he trained an average of six to seven days-a-week using a combination of gruelling weights sessions with cardiovascular workouts.
Paw Paw Strength Beyond gym owner pleads guilty and should avoid jail.
A gym owner arrested in a steroids probe pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Tuesday and likely won’t serve any jail time, according to authorities.
Aaron J. Diprima, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of an analogue, a two-year felony, during a hearing in Van Buren County Circuit Court, said Kalamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein. He was facing a charge of delivery/manufacture of the anabolic steroid Fluoxymesterone, a seven-felony.
In exchange for DiPrima’s plea, Klein said, prosecutors at sentencing will recommend he get probation and the chance to have the felony removed from his record if he completes probation if he cooperates with prosecutors and testifies truthfully against co-defendant Robert P. Kusmack, 33, a former Paw Paw police officer.
Diprima, according to his Facebook page, is owner of some of the Strength Beyond gyms in the area.
Kusmack, whose employment with the Paw Paw Police Department was terminated May 19, is charged with possession of Fluoxymesterone, a two-year felony. A hearing on evidence against him is scheduled for July 28.
The charges against Diprima and Kusmack were authorized last month by the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office, which was assigned as a special prosecutor by the state attorney general’s office because of Kusmack’s previous working relationship with the Van Buren County Prosecutor’s Office while a police officer.
Aaron J. Diprima, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of an analogue, a two-year felony, during a hearing in Van Buren County Circuit Court, said Kalamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein. He was facing a charge of delivery/manufacture of the anabolic steroid Fluoxymesterone, a seven-felony.
In exchange for DiPrima’s plea, Klein said, prosecutors at sentencing will recommend he get probation and the chance to have the felony removed from his record if he completes probation if he cooperates with prosecutors and testifies truthfully against co-defendant Robert P. Kusmack, 33, a former Paw Paw police officer.
Diprima, according to his Facebook page, is owner of some of the Strength Beyond gyms in the area.
Kusmack, whose employment with the Paw Paw Police Department was terminated May 19, is charged with possession of Fluoxymesterone, a two-year felony. A hearing on evidence against him is scheduled for July 28.
The charges against Diprima and Kusmack were authorized last month by the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office, which was assigned as a special prosecutor by the state attorney general’s office because of Kusmack’s previous working relationship with the Van Buren County Prosecutor’s Office while a police officer.
Second Canadian University of Waterloo football player arrested over steroid scandal.
Police have arrested another University of Waterloo football player in connection with a drug investigation that resulted in the one-year suspension of the team.
Brandon Krukowski, 22, a 6-foot, 220-pound third-year linebacker with the Warriors, was charged Monday with several counts of possession and trafficking drugs.
The charges relate to suspected anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.
“I’m shocked and sad,” said Carl Zender, the former assistant football coach who quit in protest after the team's upcoming season was suspended by UW.
Zender, whose son, Dustin, played on the team, said he learned of the latest arrest through the media Tuesday.
“I feel bad for everybody,” he said, when reached at his home.
The one-year team suspension was the result of what started as a police investigation into property crime.
Police found several types of anabolic steroids, including nandrolone, trenbolone, stanozolol and testosterone, along with a quantity of tamoxifen, a breast cancer drug sometimes used in conjunction with steroids to help reduce water retention.
Police charged UW receiver Nathan Zettler with possession of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone for the purpose of trafficking.
His teammate, Matthew Valeriote, 24, also from Waterloo, and a former teammate, Eric Legare, 26, are also charged in connection with the case.
After the arrests, the university had its football players tested for drugs and last week announced its team would be suspended for the 2010 season after nine positive drug tests. The results are considered one of the biggest steroid scandals in Canadian sports history.
Head coach Dennis McPhee and assistant, Marshall Bingeman, were put on paid leaves.
So far, only Warriors defensive end Joe Surgenor and linebacker Jordan Meredith were identified as Waterloo's drug cheats. They've been given two-year suspensions by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports.
The names of the remaining seven Warrior players who committed doping violations are expected to be released shortly.
Police have continued to investigate during the past several months, which led to the most recent arrest this week.
“We’ve been collecting evidence through the course of this investigation and as a result these charges are being laid,” said police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel. “We obviously take investigations of illegal drugs very seriously.”
Krukowski, who is enrolled in sociology at UW, is a former first-team Waterloo County all-star linebacker at Kitchener’s Grand River Collegiate who was recruited by the Warriors in 2007.
University spokesperson Michael Strickland confirmed Krukowski was on the team but said the university would not comment because of the ongoing police investigation and an internal review.
Retired Waterloo Regional Police chief Larry Gravill has been hired to head the internal investigation into how much the coaches on the Waterloo Warriors football team knew about steroid use among players.
The 53 players who tested clean said they feel unfairly punished and urged the university to reverse its decision. The university refused to do so, leaving the players to look at other universities.
Zender said his son is “investigating heavily” which school he may attend in the future.
Zender said the university “didn’t make the wrong call when dealing with kids who use steroids. They need to be firm. They need to be tough.”
But, he said, it’s unfair that clean players are being penalized.
“It breaks my heart when a situation goes bad,” he said.
Brandon Krukowski, 22, a 6-foot, 220-pound third-year linebacker with the Warriors, was charged Monday with several counts of possession and trafficking drugs.
The charges relate to suspected anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.
“I’m shocked and sad,” said Carl Zender, the former assistant football coach who quit in protest after the team's upcoming season was suspended by UW.
Zender, whose son, Dustin, played on the team, said he learned of the latest arrest through the media Tuesday.
“I feel bad for everybody,” he said, when reached at his home.
The one-year team suspension was the result of what started as a police investigation into property crime.
Police found several types of anabolic steroids, including nandrolone, trenbolone, stanozolol and testosterone, along with a quantity of tamoxifen, a breast cancer drug sometimes used in conjunction with steroids to help reduce water retention.
Police charged UW receiver Nathan Zettler with possession of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone for the purpose of trafficking.
His teammate, Matthew Valeriote, 24, also from Waterloo, and a former teammate, Eric Legare, 26, are also charged in connection with the case.
After the arrests, the university had its football players tested for drugs and last week announced its team would be suspended for the 2010 season after nine positive drug tests. The results are considered one of the biggest steroid scandals in Canadian sports history.
Head coach Dennis McPhee and assistant, Marshall Bingeman, were put on paid leaves.
So far, only Warriors defensive end Joe Surgenor and linebacker Jordan Meredith were identified as Waterloo's drug cheats. They've been given two-year suspensions by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports.
The names of the remaining seven Warrior players who committed doping violations are expected to be released shortly.
Police have continued to investigate during the past several months, which led to the most recent arrest this week.
“We’ve been collecting evidence through the course of this investigation and as a result these charges are being laid,” said police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel. “We obviously take investigations of illegal drugs very seriously.”
Krukowski, who is enrolled in sociology at UW, is a former first-team Waterloo County all-star linebacker at Kitchener’s Grand River Collegiate who was recruited by the Warriors in 2007.
University spokesperson Michael Strickland confirmed Krukowski was on the team but said the university would not comment because of the ongoing police investigation and an internal review.
Retired Waterloo Regional Police chief Larry Gravill has been hired to head the internal investigation into how much the coaches on the Waterloo Warriors football team knew about steroid use among players.
The 53 players who tested clean said they feel unfairly punished and urged the university to reverse its decision. The university refused to do so, leaving the players to look at other universities.
Zender said his son is “investigating heavily” which school he may attend in the future.
Zender said the university “didn’t make the wrong call when dealing with kids who use steroids. They need to be firm. They need to be tough.”
But, he said, it’s unfair that clean players are being penalized.
“It breaks my heart when a situation goes bad,” he said.
Former federal immigration agent pleads guilty to Chinese steroids and HGH importation.
A former federal immigration agent in Washington state has pleaded guilty to importing steroids.
Sean Patrick Ganley was a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent based in Blaine. He entered the plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
He acknowledged ordering human growth hormone and steroids from Beijing in April 2008 using a false telephone number and fictitious address. Customs inspectors working at JFK International Airport in New York discovered the drugs.
The U.S. attorney's office in Spokane handled the prosecution to avoid any appearances of a conflict of interest involving the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle.
The 37-year-old Ganley is scheduled to be sentenced in September. The maximum for importing steroids is 10 years in prison.
Sean Patrick Ganley was a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent based in Blaine. He entered the plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
He acknowledged ordering human growth hormone and steroids from Beijing in April 2008 using a false telephone number and fictitious address. Customs inspectors working at JFK International Airport in New York discovered the drugs.
The U.S. attorney's office in Spokane handled the prosecution to avoid any appearances of a conflict of interest involving the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle.
The 37-year-old Ganley is scheduled to be sentenced in September. The maximum for importing steroids is 10 years in prison.
Florida's steroids kingpin gets eight month sentence and three years of probation.
The Lakeland man responsible for amassing what authorities have called the largest collection of illegal steroids seized in Polk County history was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in federal prison.
Richard "Andy" Thomas claimed to investigators that he was the biggest steroid dealer in Central Florida, with clients who included professional athletes.
Following his arrest last year, he helped investigators build criminal cases against two other drug-related suspects, which was helpful in reducing his prison sentence.
Thomas, 36, also must serve three years of probation.
In November, he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
Thomas was a bodybuilder who was known to spend time at Gold's Gym on South Florida Avenue. Wearing a blue, button-down shirt and khaki pants, he appeared thinner at Wednesday's hearing than in his jail book-in photo from May 27, 2009.
His mother, Barbara Thomas, testified that her son was diagnosed with diabetes when he was about 9 years old.
She said his condition has worsened after his stay in the county jail and during the months spent resolving his case.
She said he has difficulty monitoring and regulating his blood sugar.
U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. commented that Richard Thomas sold a lot of steroids over a long period of time.
Richard Thomas told the judge that he knew his actions were wrong, and vowed not to go back to his life as a steroid seller.
"I'm done with it," he said.
Thomas' lawyer, A. Fitzgerald Hall, said his client began using steroids at a young age and became addicted to them.
Hall asked that Thomas receive probation and perhaps do community service, such as speak to youths about the dangers of steroids.
Prosecutors requested eight months in prison. Thomas had been facing a recommended sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison. But prosecutors filed a motion seeking a more lenient punishment for Thomas because he worked with investigators to build cases against a chiropractor accused of buying steroids and a state corrections officer accused of trying to buy 300 Valium pills.
Thomas helped introduce Deborah Frisina, who worked at the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution, to an undercover deputy, records state.
A sting took place in June 2009. Frisina, 52, later pleaded no contest to drug charges and was sentenced to three years of probation, according to court records.
In March, Douglas Owen Nagel, 50, a Virginia chiropractor who has treated members of the Washington Capitals hockey team, was arrested.
Nagel was released April 15 from the Polk County Jail and continues to face steroid-related charges in Florida, records show.
Investigators said Thomas bragged about selling steroids to professional athletes.
Nagel is accused of buying steroids from Thomas.
When Nagel was arrested in March, Sheriff Grady Judd said his deputies had "no conclusive proof" that athletes bought steroids from Nagel.
Judd reported Nagel has said he bought the steroids for personal use.
Carrie Eleazer, a Polk sheriff's spokeswoman, said on Wednesday that detectives are still investigating whether any steroids were sold to athletes.
The Washington Capitals have commented previously that Nagel isn't a "team chiropractor" and isn't affiliated with the team. Some players had gone to Nagel's office for "standard, routine chiropractic services."
The steroid investigation began in May 2009 when the Polk County Sheriff's Office learned from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that a shipment of steroids was caught being shipped to Thomas' home, according to a search warrant.
The package was delivered to the home on Stoney Creek Drive in Lakeland with an electronic beacon wired to signal an alert when it was opened. When the beacon went off, detectives entered the house, and Thomas was inside with the opened package, court records said.
Thomas and his wife, Sandra, were arrested, but charges against her were later dropped.
The Sheriff's Office estimated investigators recovered the county's largest collection of illegal steroids in the home, including thousands of pills, syringes and vials. The agency also reported finding firearms.
Richard "Andy" Thomas claimed to investigators that he was the biggest steroid dealer in Central Florida, with clients who included professional athletes.
Following his arrest last year, he helped investigators build criminal cases against two other drug-related suspects, which was helpful in reducing his prison sentence.
Thomas, 36, also must serve three years of probation.
In November, he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
Thomas was a bodybuilder who was known to spend time at Gold's Gym on South Florida Avenue. Wearing a blue, button-down shirt and khaki pants, he appeared thinner at Wednesday's hearing than in his jail book-in photo from May 27, 2009.
His mother, Barbara Thomas, testified that her son was diagnosed with diabetes when he was about 9 years old.
She said his condition has worsened after his stay in the county jail and during the months spent resolving his case.
She said he has difficulty monitoring and regulating his blood sugar.
U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. commented that Richard Thomas sold a lot of steroids over a long period of time.
Richard Thomas told the judge that he knew his actions were wrong, and vowed not to go back to his life as a steroid seller.
"I'm done with it," he said.
Thomas' lawyer, A. Fitzgerald Hall, said his client began using steroids at a young age and became addicted to them.
Hall asked that Thomas receive probation and perhaps do community service, such as speak to youths about the dangers of steroids.
Prosecutors requested eight months in prison. Thomas had been facing a recommended sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison. But prosecutors filed a motion seeking a more lenient punishment for Thomas because he worked with investigators to build cases against a chiropractor accused of buying steroids and a state corrections officer accused of trying to buy 300 Valium pills.
Thomas helped introduce Deborah Frisina, who worked at the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution, to an undercover deputy, records state.
A sting took place in June 2009. Frisina, 52, later pleaded no contest to drug charges and was sentenced to three years of probation, according to court records.
In March, Douglas Owen Nagel, 50, a Virginia chiropractor who has treated members of the Washington Capitals hockey team, was arrested.
Nagel was released April 15 from the Polk County Jail and continues to face steroid-related charges in Florida, records show.
Investigators said Thomas bragged about selling steroids to professional athletes.
Nagel is accused of buying steroids from Thomas.
When Nagel was arrested in March, Sheriff Grady Judd said his deputies had "no conclusive proof" that athletes bought steroids from Nagel.
Judd reported Nagel has said he bought the steroids for personal use.
Carrie Eleazer, a Polk sheriff's spokeswoman, said on Wednesday that detectives are still investigating whether any steroids were sold to athletes.
The Washington Capitals have commented previously that Nagel isn't a "team chiropractor" and isn't affiliated with the team. Some players had gone to Nagel's office for "standard, routine chiropractic services."
The steroid investigation began in May 2009 when the Polk County Sheriff's Office learned from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that a shipment of steroids was caught being shipped to Thomas' home, according to a search warrant.
The package was delivered to the home on Stoney Creek Drive in Lakeland with an electronic beacon wired to signal an alert when it was opened. When the beacon went off, detectives entered the house, and Thomas was inside with the opened package, court records said.
Thomas and his wife, Sandra, were arrested, but charges against her were later dropped.
The Sheriff's Office estimated investigators recovered the county's largest collection of illegal steroids in the home, including thousands of pills, syringes and vials. The agency also reported finding firearms.
NY prosecutors going after Signature pharmacy yet again.
New York prosecutors are again going after the operators of an Orlando pharmacy accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes.
A 33-count indictment against the operators of Signature Compounding Pharmacy was unsealed Tuesday in Albany County Court as the five business associates were arraigned.
The indictment — alleging enterprise corruption, drug sales and attempted drug sales — marks the return of a case brought by Albany County District Attorney David Soares in 2007 that garnered national attention.
At that time, Signature was painted as the hub of a steroid network.
Signature's attorneys long have fought the allegations and denied the company was a distribution channel for pro athletes.
"These new charges are virtually identical to those that Judge Herrick dismissed in 2008. As the Loomises said yesterday at their arraignment, they are still not guilty," their Orlando attorney Amy Tingley said Wednesday.
In 2008, a judge tossed the New York tossed the case and barred prosecutors from seeking further charges. But earlier this year, the Appellate Division ruled that Soares' office could once again present the case to a grand jury.
On June 16, a grand jury indicted former pharmacy operators Naomi Loomis, 37, her husband, Robert "Stan" Loomis, 59; both of Windermere; his brother and former Signature pharmacy operator Kenneth Michael Loomis, who is in his early 60s, of Winter Garden; former business manager Kirk Calvert, 40, of Windermere; and former business manager Tony Palladino, 34, of Ocoee.
Each defendant was charged in every count. All pleaded not guilty.
Naomi Loomis was released on $35,000 bail, the rest on $30,000.
"We expect this indictment to suffer the same fate as the previous indictment," said attorney E. Stewart Jones, who represents Kenneth Loomis, Calvert and Palladino. "It will be dismissed."
When asked, Jones said the Loomises were "unable to work because everything is tied up as a result of forfeiture actions, civil lawsuits a pending criminal case. So their pharmacy business has basically been shut down."
The Loomises are licensed pharmacists.
The arraignment comes less than two weeks after an Orlando federal judge slammed the local criminal case against the pharmacy, which essentially halts prosecutors' efforts for the time being.
During a May hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Ho said one aspect of the local federal inquiry is to determine to what extent Signature's business was focused on steroids and human-growth hormone.
Prosecutors wanted to review evidence seized as part of the 2007 New York case. Signature's attorneys argued the property, seized from the pharmacy's offices in Orlando and Winter Park, should be returned to the company.
In response, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell issued a harsh ruling June 10 stating prosecutors overstepped their bounds in seizing the company's property in 2007. He ordered the U.S. Attorney's Office to return Signature's items.
The New York indictment also comes just weeks before a civil trial is slated to begin in Orlando federal court, in which Signature Pharmacy and its executives are suing Soares, the lead prosecutor and investigators on the original case.
The suit claims prosecutors misinformed the public, ruined the pharmacy's reputation and cost it business.
The civil trial is slated to begin July 19.
"We do not believe it is a coincidence that as they seek to recover damages from the Albany prosecutors for destroying their business reputation three years ago, new charges that are no different than those that were already dismissed have surfaced," Tingley said.
A 33-count indictment against the operators of Signature Compounding Pharmacy was unsealed Tuesday in Albany County Court as the five business associates were arraigned.
The indictment — alleging enterprise corruption, drug sales and attempted drug sales — marks the return of a case brought by Albany County District Attorney David Soares in 2007 that garnered national attention.
At that time, Signature was painted as the hub of a steroid network.
Signature's attorneys long have fought the allegations and denied the company was a distribution channel for pro athletes.
"These new charges are virtually identical to those that Judge Herrick dismissed in 2008. As the Loomises said yesterday at their arraignment, they are still not guilty," their Orlando attorney Amy Tingley said Wednesday.
In 2008, a judge tossed the New York tossed the case and barred prosecutors from seeking further charges. But earlier this year, the Appellate Division ruled that Soares' office could once again present the case to a grand jury.
On June 16, a grand jury indicted former pharmacy operators Naomi Loomis, 37, her husband, Robert "Stan" Loomis, 59; both of Windermere; his brother and former Signature pharmacy operator Kenneth Michael Loomis, who is in his early 60s, of Winter Garden; former business manager Kirk Calvert, 40, of Windermere; and former business manager Tony Palladino, 34, of Ocoee.
Each defendant was charged in every count. All pleaded not guilty.
Naomi Loomis was released on $35,000 bail, the rest on $30,000.
"We expect this indictment to suffer the same fate as the previous indictment," said attorney E. Stewart Jones, who represents Kenneth Loomis, Calvert and Palladino. "It will be dismissed."
When asked, Jones said the Loomises were "unable to work because everything is tied up as a result of forfeiture actions, civil lawsuits a pending criminal case. So their pharmacy business has basically been shut down."
The Loomises are licensed pharmacists.
The arraignment comes less than two weeks after an Orlando federal judge slammed the local criminal case against the pharmacy, which essentially halts prosecutors' efforts for the time being.
During a May hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Ho said one aspect of the local federal inquiry is to determine to what extent Signature's business was focused on steroids and human-growth hormone.
Prosecutors wanted to review evidence seized as part of the 2007 New York case. Signature's attorneys argued the property, seized from the pharmacy's offices in Orlando and Winter Park, should be returned to the company.
In response, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell issued a harsh ruling June 10 stating prosecutors overstepped their bounds in seizing the company's property in 2007. He ordered the U.S. Attorney's Office to return Signature's items.
The New York indictment also comes just weeks before a civil trial is slated to begin in Orlando federal court, in which Signature Pharmacy and its executives are suing Soares, the lead prosecutor and investigators on the original case.
The suit claims prosecutors misinformed the public, ruined the pharmacy's reputation and cost it business.
The civil trial is slated to begin July 19.
"We do not believe it is a coincidence that as they seek to recover damages from the Albany prosecutors for destroying their business reputation three years ago, new charges that are no different than those that were already dismissed have surfaced," Tingley said.
British man charged for steroid possession.
A 32-year-old man has appeared in Sunderland Magistrates' Court on drugs charges.
Alan Smart, of Shrewsbury Crescent, Sunderland, is facing five offences of possessing class C drugs, including steroids.
He is also jointly charged with Faye Herdman, 30, of the same address, of possessing a weapon designed to discharge noxious gas or liquid.
Neither was asked to enter a plea to the charges, which are alleged to have taken place on October 18 last year at an address in Sunderland.
Magistrates granted them unconditional bail until a hearing next month, when the case will be committed to Newcastle Crown Court.
Alan Smart, of Shrewsbury Crescent, Sunderland, is facing five offences of possessing class C drugs, including steroids.
He is also jointly charged with Faye Herdman, 30, of the same address, of possessing a weapon designed to discharge noxious gas or liquid.
Neither was asked to enter a plea to the charges, which are alleged to have taken place on October 18 last year at an address in Sunderland.
Magistrates granted them unconditional bail until a hearing next month, when the case will be committed to Newcastle Crown Court.
Australian female cop in trouble over steroids.
Australia's Queensland Police have suspended a junior constable over allegations surrounding steroid possession and falsifying documents.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission is investigating the 29-year-old officer, who was based in southeast Queensland, over allegations she permitted steroid possession.
She is also being investigated for untruthfulness, falsifying documents and other acts of dishonesty and misconduct, police said today.
Police said she had been suspended from duty.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission is investigating the 29-year-old officer, who was based in southeast Queensland, over allegations she permitted steroid possession.
She is also being investigated for untruthfulness, falsifying documents and other acts of dishonesty and misconduct, police said today.
Police said she had been suspended from duty.
Candian HGH Doctor's assistant to plead guilty.
Mary Anne Catalano is scheduled to appear in federal court next Thursday to plead guilty to one felony count of making a false statement.
Last month, Dr. Anthony Galea was charged by the federal government with unlawful distribution of HGH and other drugs, smuggling, and other charges in connection with his alleged treatment of star U.S. athletes, including the Yankees Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods.
It's believed that a good deal of the evidence against Galea has come from his former assistant, Catalano.
Last September, Catalano was trying to enter the U.S. at the Peace Bridge when she was pull aside by authorities.
According to federal documents obtained by 2 On Your Side, Catalano waived her Miranda rights to a lawyer and agreed to speak with federal agents.
Those agents found in Catalano's car HGH and other drugs, 111 syringes, a medical centrifuge and an ultra sound machine.
Catalano told the agents that she knew "the items that she was bringing in were illegal and that she was doing this for her employer," Dr. Galea.
Catalano said Galea "had admitted he had had problems attempting to import the same items into the U.S. on previous occasions."
Catalano said Galea had told her that "if she ever got stopped and questioned about her trip, she should say that she was coming in to meet Galea at a medical conference, and that none of the equipment was for treating medical patients."
Reports are that Catalano was on her way to the Washington area to meet up with Galea, where he was to treat Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss.
Moss has denied using HGH.
It appears that neither Moss nor other athletes allegedly treated by Galea will face charges.
Scott Brown: "Can you say whether any athletes involved are the target of the investigation?"
U.S. Attorney William Hochul: "In a particular case if somebody tells the government what they know in a timely way, those people are generally considered witnesses."
Hochul declined to comment on the plea deal with Catalano or the continuing investigation into Galea.
Catalano's Buffalo attorney, Rod Personius, says Catalano has been cooperating with federal authorities, and will continue to do until she's sentenced at some point in the future.
Last month, Dr. Anthony Galea was charged by the federal government with unlawful distribution of HGH and other drugs, smuggling, and other charges in connection with his alleged treatment of star U.S. athletes, including the Yankees Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods.
It's believed that a good deal of the evidence against Galea has come from his former assistant, Catalano.
Last September, Catalano was trying to enter the U.S. at the Peace Bridge when she was pull aside by authorities.
According to federal documents obtained by 2 On Your Side, Catalano waived her Miranda rights to a lawyer and agreed to speak with federal agents.
Those agents found in Catalano's car HGH and other drugs, 111 syringes, a medical centrifuge and an ultra sound machine.
Catalano told the agents that she knew "the items that she was bringing in were illegal and that she was doing this for her employer," Dr. Galea.
Catalano said Galea "had admitted he had had problems attempting to import the same items into the U.S. on previous occasions."
Catalano said Galea had told her that "if she ever got stopped and questioned about her trip, she should say that she was coming in to meet Galea at a medical conference, and that none of the equipment was for treating medical patients."
Reports are that Catalano was on her way to the Washington area to meet up with Galea, where he was to treat Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss.
Moss has denied using HGH.
It appears that neither Moss nor other athletes allegedly treated by Galea will face charges.
Scott Brown: "Can you say whether any athletes involved are the target of the investigation?"
U.S. Attorney William Hochul: "In a particular case if somebody tells the government what they know in a timely way, those people are generally considered witnesses."
Hochul declined to comment on the plea deal with Catalano or the continuing investigation into Galea.
Catalano's Buffalo attorney, Rod Personius, says Catalano has been cooperating with federal authorities, and will continue to do until she's sentenced at some point in the future.
Ex-Tribal cop get probation for buying steroids during work.
A former tribal police officer who was accused of purchasing anabolic steroids has been given probation and home detention, but no prison time.
U.S. District Judge Ronald A. White formally sentenced Jimmy Russell Hamm II to 24 months of probation, four of which will be spent on home detention.
A federal grand jury indicted Hamm in August on a charge of drug possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
Prosecutors alleged the purchases and deliveries to Hamm were done while he was on duty and driving a marked patrol unit as a member of the Creek Nation Lighthorse Division.
U.S. District Judge Ronald A. White formally sentenced Jimmy Russell Hamm II to 24 months of probation, four of which will be spent on home detention.
A federal grand jury indicted Hamm in August on a charge of drug possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
Prosecutors alleged the purchases and deliveries to Hamm were done while he was on duty and driving a marked patrol unit as a member of the Creek Nation Lighthorse Division.
British pharmacy employee in court for $1 million growth hormone theft.
A pharmacy worker who stole more than £600,000 of human growth hormone to help his body building hobby has been warned to expect a long jail sentence.
Naheem Malik was convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday of theft and fraud while employed as an assistant dispenser at Lloyd’s Pharmacy in Leeds Road, Bradford.
He stole the drugs over a period of nine months after fraudulently claiming they were for patients.
Malik, 26, of Moorside Lane, Laisterdyke, Bradford, was remanded in custody to be sentenced on July 8.
His barrister, Henry Spooner, asked for a probation service report.
He said Malik had a history of mental instability and had begun hearing voices in May 2008.
Judge John Potter told Malik to expect “a significant and lengthy sentence”.
He refused to grant him bail because he said he might fail to turn up for his sentencing hearing.
The Crown had set a Proceeds of Crime Act timetable to confiscate any money or assets Malik gained from his criminality.
During the trial, the jury heard that Malik’s role at the pharmacy was to dispense medication, by prescription only, for elderly patients in residential homes.
It involved placing orders for products with linked company, AAH Pharmaceuticals.
He ordered large quantities of the human growth hormone drug, Somatropin, and then stole it, between September 2007 and May 2008.
The court heard the total value of Malik’s drugs haul was in excess of £625,000.
Malik had told the jury he was an honest and diligent employee. He was not able to explain how the drugs had gone missing.
Naheem Malik was convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday of theft and fraud while employed as an assistant dispenser at Lloyd’s Pharmacy in Leeds Road, Bradford.
He stole the drugs over a period of nine months after fraudulently claiming they were for patients.
Malik, 26, of Moorside Lane, Laisterdyke, Bradford, was remanded in custody to be sentenced on July 8.
His barrister, Henry Spooner, asked for a probation service report.
He said Malik had a history of mental instability and had begun hearing voices in May 2008.
Judge John Potter told Malik to expect “a significant and lengthy sentence”.
He refused to grant him bail because he said he might fail to turn up for his sentencing hearing.
The Crown had set a Proceeds of Crime Act timetable to confiscate any money or assets Malik gained from his criminality.
During the trial, the jury heard that Malik’s role at the pharmacy was to dispense medication, by prescription only, for elderly patients in residential homes.
It involved placing orders for products with linked company, AAH Pharmaceuticals.
He ordered large quantities of the human growth hormone drug, Somatropin, and then stole it, between September 2007 and May 2008.
The court heard the total value of Malik’s drugs haul was in excess of £625,000.
Malik had told the jury he was an honest and diligent employee. He was not able to explain how the drugs had gone missing.
More details from the Texan press about the Earhart family vs GeneScience case.
"It was foreseeable to the Defendants that the unlawful use of their products without the prior FDA approval, supervision of a physician or properly prescribed and administered would lead to a violent change in the conduct of the end uses such as David Jacobs," the court records state.
The plaintiffs are seeking damages for funeral expenses and medical expenses, mental anguish, pain and suffering, loss of companionship and society, loss of inheritance, exemplary damages, loss of economic support, advice and counsel, services, child's services, support, financial contributions and interest and court costs.
Most of the story was a repeat of the information found in our earlier steroid blog post.
The plaintiffs are seeking damages for funeral expenses and medical expenses, mental anguish, pain and suffering, loss of companionship and society, loss of inheritance, exemplary damages, loss of economic support, advice and counsel, services, child's services, support, financial contributions and interest and court costs.
Most of the story was a repeat of the information found in our earlier steroid blog post.
Researchers find pickle juice prevents muscle cramps.
( Which research chemical company will be the first to offer clenbuterol in pickle juice ? )
Gatorade isn't the only greenish drink that athletes crave. A new study indicates that pickle brine could help athletes when they need it most.
Researchers say the juice at the bottom of a pickle jar is more effective at staving off crippling muscle cramps than water.
To prove the salty premise long believed by some trainers and serious athletes, scientists induced toe cramps in male college students after forcing the subjects to bike to the point of mild dehydration. The average cramp lasted about two minutes and 30 seconds.
A new study has revealed that pickle brine might be more effective than sports drinks at treating muscle cramps, confirming a longstanding assumption in the sports world. Football players, cyclists and triathletes have been sipping dill-flavored drinks, including bottles of Pickle Juice Sport, for years.
They then repeated the experiment and gave the cramp-afflicted athletes "2.5 ounces of either deionized water or pickle juice, strained from a jar of ordinary Vlasic dills," according to The New York Times' Well blog.
Those who downed the brine stopped complaining of cramping within 85 seconds -- about 37 percent faster than the water drinkers and 45 percent faster than when they didn't drink anything at all.
The study might come as a shock to some fitness fanatics, but it didn't surprise Brandon Brooks, who has been selling a dill-flavored athletic drink called Pickle Juice Sport for years.
"I rolled it out as a novelty beverage, but pretty soon the trainers and the teams were saying, 'You guys have the tiger by the tail here -- you don't know what you're dealing with,'" said Brooks, who's found a way to brew the drink without even using any pickles.
Brooks' beverage has become a common sight on the bike frames of cyclists, in the fridges of triathletes, and even on NFL sidelines, where he says the New York Giants have been his biggest customer.
Gatorade isn't the only greenish drink that athletes crave. A new study indicates that pickle brine could help athletes when they need it most.
Researchers say the juice at the bottom of a pickle jar is more effective at staving off crippling muscle cramps than water.
To prove the salty premise long believed by some trainers and serious athletes, scientists induced toe cramps in male college students after forcing the subjects to bike to the point of mild dehydration. The average cramp lasted about two minutes and 30 seconds.
A new study has revealed that pickle brine might be more effective than sports drinks at treating muscle cramps, confirming a longstanding assumption in the sports world. Football players, cyclists and triathletes have been sipping dill-flavored drinks, including bottles of Pickle Juice Sport, for years.
They then repeated the experiment and gave the cramp-afflicted athletes "2.5 ounces of either deionized water or pickle juice, strained from a jar of ordinary Vlasic dills," according to The New York Times' Well blog.
Those who downed the brine stopped complaining of cramping within 85 seconds -- about 37 percent faster than the water drinkers and 45 percent faster than when they didn't drink anything at all.
The study might come as a shock to some fitness fanatics, but it didn't surprise Brandon Brooks, who has been selling a dill-flavored athletic drink called Pickle Juice Sport for years.
"I rolled it out as a novelty beverage, but pretty soon the trainers and the teams were saying, 'You guys have the tiger by the tail here -- you don't know what you're dealing with,'" said Brooks, who's found a way to brew the drink without even using any pickles.
Brooks' beverage has become a common sight on the bike frames of cyclists, in the fridges of triathletes, and even on NFL sidelines, where he says the New York Giants have been his biggest customer.
Canada's Waterloo University Football team suspended following steroid test results.
The University of Waterloo has suspended its football team for the entire 2010 season over a steroid scandal.
As many as nine potential doping violations were discovered during a mass test of 62 Warriors players.
As well, two players received suspensions and a former player faces charges in connection with a police probe into steroid trafficking.
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, Canadian Interuniversity Sport and the university held a news conference Monday to announce the findings of a sweeping probe of players in the football program.
On March 31, more than 80 urine and blood samples were taken, at the initiative of the university, resulting in the nine infractions.
A urine test from first-year player Jordan Meredith found Tamoxifen, which is commonly used by athletes to fight steroid side-effects. It is a banned substance and is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list. Meredith, a linebacker, waived his right to a hearing and admitted to using the substance. He is ineligible to play for two years.
Another linebacker, second-year student Joe Surgenor, also admitted steroid use and received the same penalty.
The Waterloo Regional Police have charged former Warrior Nathan Zettler with possession of steroids and human growth hormone for the purpose of trafficking.
"This is the most significant doping issue in CIS history, and we're taking it very seriously," CIS chief executive officer Marg McGregor said in a news release.
"This situation illustrates that the CIS doping control program needs to be strengthened to ensure a level playing field and protect the rights of the vast majority of student-athletes who respect the rules and complete clean."
The university said head football coach Dennis McPhee and assistant coach Marshall Bingeman had been placed on paid leave while the school reviewed the situation.
University officials, however, added that the move did not indicate an assumption of involvement from the coaches.
"That review will commence immediately," the university said in a statement.
As many as nine potential doping violations were discovered during a mass test of 62 Warriors players.
As well, two players received suspensions and a former player faces charges in connection with a police probe into steroid trafficking.
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, Canadian Interuniversity Sport and the university held a news conference Monday to announce the findings of a sweeping probe of players in the football program.
On March 31, more than 80 urine and blood samples were taken, at the initiative of the university, resulting in the nine infractions.
A urine test from first-year player Jordan Meredith found Tamoxifen, which is commonly used by athletes to fight steroid side-effects. It is a banned substance and is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list. Meredith, a linebacker, waived his right to a hearing and admitted to using the substance. He is ineligible to play for two years.
Another linebacker, second-year student Joe Surgenor, also admitted steroid use and received the same penalty.
The Waterloo Regional Police have charged former Warrior Nathan Zettler with possession of steroids and human growth hormone for the purpose of trafficking.
"This is the most significant doping issue in CIS history, and we're taking it very seriously," CIS chief executive officer Marg McGregor said in a news release.
"This situation illustrates that the CIS doping control program needs to be strengthened to ensure a level playing field and protect the rights of the vast majority of student-athletes who respect the rules and complete clean."
The university said head football coach Dennis McPhee and assistant coach Marshall Bingeman had been placed on paid leave while the school reviewed the situation.
University officials, however, added that the move did not indicate an assumption of involvement from the coaches.
"That review will commence immediately," the university said in a statement.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport reinstates Olympic medals for hammer throwers.
Two Belarusian hammer throwers had their Olympic medals reinstated Thursday after the world sport's highest court determined their doping tests were mishandled by the Beijing laboratory.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said doping tests of Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan were invalid because international laboratory standards were not respected in what it said was an "unusually complex doping case." CAS said the medals should be returned.
Devyatovskiy and Tsikhan won silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
They tested positive for elevated testosterone after the hammer throw final and were disqualified and stripped of the medals by the International Olympic Committee.
The silver medal was subsequently given to Krisztian Pars of Hungary and the bronze to Koji Murofushi of Japan. Primoz Kozmus of Slovenia won the gold medal.
The IOC said it was disappointed by the CAS ruling and "considering all possible options."
Devyatovskiy and Tsikhan denied doping and appealed to CAS on Dec. 31, 2008, to overturn the IOC ruling.
Although the three-man CAS upheld their appeal Thursday, it said the decision "should not be interpreted as an exoneration of the athletes," and the court did not say the athletes are free of any doping suspicion.
But CAS ruled that the Beijing National Laboratory, which carried out the tests, had violated "documentation and reporting requirements."
CAS said the lab had provided no "plausible explanation" for interruption of the automated testing procedure of the IRMS — isotope ratio mass spectrometry — instruments.
CAS also said the lab breached international standards by having the same analyst test both the "A" and "B" samples. Doping samples are divided into two, with the "B" used as the backup to confirm any positive finding in the "A."
The departure from these international standards "justify the annulment of the tests' results for both athletes," CAS in a statement.
In a statement, the World Anti-Doping Agency said it was "concerned" with the work done by the lab, and "disappointed" with the CAS decision.
"As in every case where departures from the International Standard for Laboratories are reported, WADA will follow up with the laboratory in order to request a complete report," the statement said. "WADA will be in a position to comment once it has received and carefully considered this report."
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said doping tests of Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan were invalid because international laboratory standards were not respected in what it said was an "unusually complex doping case." CAS said the medals should be returned.
Devyatovskiy and Tsikhan won silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
They tested positive for elevated testosterone after the hammer throw final and were disqualified and stripped of the medals by the International Olympic Committee.
The silver medal was subsequently given to Krisztian Pars of Hungary and the bronze to Koji Murofushi of Japan. Primoz Kozmus of Slovenia won the gold medal.
The IOC said it was disappointed by the CAS ruling and "considering all possible options."
Devyatovskiy and Tsikhan denied doping and appealed to CAS on Dec. 31, 2008, to overturn the IOC ruling.
Although the three-man CAS upheld their appeal Thursday, it said the decision "should not be interpreted as an exoneration of the athletes," and the court did not say the athletes are free of any doping suspicion.
But CAS ruled that the Beijing National Laboratory, which carried out the tests, had violated "documentation and reporting requirements."
CAS said the lab had provided no "plausible explanation" for interruption of the automated testing procedure of the IRMS — isotope ratio mass spectrometry — instruments.
CAS also said the lab breached international standards by having the same analyst test both the "A" and "B" samples. Doping samples are divided into two, with the "B" used as the backup to confirm any positive finding in the "A."
The departure from these international standards "justify the annulment of the tests' results for both athletes," CAS in a statement.
In a statement, the World Anti-Doping Agency said it was "concerned" with the work done by the lab, and "disappointed" with the CAS decision.
"As in every case where departures from the International Standard for Laboratories are reported, WADA will follow up with the laboratory in order to request a complete report," the statement said. "WADA will be in a position to comment once it has received and carefully considered this report."
MMA star Ken Shamrock finally admits his steroid use.
"Absolutely."
That was Ken Shamrock's answer to HDNet's Mike Straka's question of whether the UFC Hall of Famer ever used steroids.
"The (former) World's Most Dangerous Man" added the following:
"They want home runs, baby. They want people jacking them out of the park. But then when they find out about it they want to stick their heads in the sand and say, 'How bad, that was stupid, you're crazy, don't let him in the hall of fame.' It's like let's point the finger... Nobody wants to take responsibility, but everyone wants to see it... It's like going to the grocery store. It's that easy. It's that simple."
That was Ken Shamrock's answer to HDNet's Mike Straka's question of whether the UFC Hall of Famer ever used steroids.
"The (former) World's Most Dangerous Man" added the following:
"They want home runs, baby. They want people jacking them out of the park. But then when they find out about it they want to stick their heads in the sand and say, 'How bad, that was stupid, you're crazy, don't let him in the hall of fame.' It's like let's point the finger... Nobody wants to take responsibility, but everyone wants to see it... It's like going to the grocery store. It's that easy. It's that simple."
Steroids bust whilst still in jail for Australian Olympian Nathan Baggaley.
Disgraced Australian Olympic medallist Nathan Baggaley has been charged with possessing steroids in jail. Baggaley was already serving a nine-year jail term with a non-parole period of five years for dealing in ecstasy.
But on Thursday, while serving his time in Cessnock Correctional Centre, the three-time kayaking world champion and double Olympic silver medallist was charged with "possession of a prescribed restricted substance (steroids)". It is understood he has subsequently been moved to Silverwater Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre and will appear in Cessnock court on July 21.
The 2007 arrest of Baggaley, 34, on the ecstasy charge was featured just this week on the Nine Network program Australian Druglords.
A four-month police investigation at the time resulted in police seizing more than $62,000 and a 125kg pill press for making ecstasy. It was claimed after Baggaley and his brother Dru were convicted on ecstasy charges last year that the press was used to manufacture almost 15,000 tablets with a street value of $2.5 million.
Allegations of steroid use began the demise of the Baggaley's kayaking career.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency busted him for anabolic steroid use in 2005, resulting in an international two-year ban. Baggaley has continually maintained the steroids were consumed inadvertently. His lawyer said he consumed the steroids after drinking from an orange juice bottle belonging to his brother.
The bottle allegedly contained an unlabelled mix of steroids and orange juice in the family fridge.
But on Thursday, while serving his time in Cessnock Correctional Centre, the three-time kayaking world champion and double Olympic silver medallist was charged with "possession of a prescribed restricted substance (steroids)". It is understood he has subsequently been moved to Silverwater Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre and will appear in Cessnock court on July 21.
The 2007 arrest of Baggaley, 34, on the ecstasy charge was featured just this week on the Nine Network program Australian Druglords.
A four-month police investigation at the time resulted in police seizing more than $62,000 and a 125kg pill press for making ecstasy. It was claimed after Baggaley and his brother Dru were convicted on ecstasy charges last year that the press was used to manufacture almost 15,000 tablets with a street value of $2.5 million.
Allegations of steroid use began the demise of the Baggaley's kayaking career.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency busted him for anabolic steroid use in 2005, resulting in an international two-year ban. Baggaley has continually maintained the steroids were consumed inadvertently. His lawyer said he consumed the steroids after drinking from an orange juice bottle belonging to his brother.
The bottle allegedly contained an unlabelled mix of steroids and orange juice in the family fridge.
Federal judge angry about property seizure in Signature Pharmacy case.
A Florida federal judge scolded New York prosecutors for overstepping their authority in seizing property from a pharmacy that the government claimed was at the center of a steroid network that provided illegal drugs to professional athletes.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell on Thursday ordered prosecutors to return everything they confiscated from Signature Compounding Pharmacy, after a February 2007 raid of the company's central Florida offices. Hundreds of thousands of patient prescriptions were seized along with drugs and all of the company's electronic data.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell on Thursday ordered prosecutors to return everything they confiscated from Signature Compounding Pharmacy, after a February 2007 raid of the company's central Florida offices. Hundreds of thousands of patient prescriptions were seized along with drugs and all of the company's electronic data.
Controlled international delivery of Strombaject for two unlucky New Jersey residents.
A Clover Hill area man and another from Hillsborough in Somerset County were charged yesterday in connection with receiving anabolic steroids.
According to investigators, Scott R. Jacquish, 32, of Brennan Way in Hillsborough and David M. Reynolds, 31, of Amwell Road in the Clover Hill area were arrested on June 9 after Federal Homeland Security agents notified Hillsborough Police Detectives that an international package addressed to Jacquish containing a quantity of the anabolic steroid Strombaject (Stanozolol) was intercepted and would be turned over to Hillsborough Police for further investigation.
Police said search warrants were executed on Jacquish’s residence, as well Reynolds’ place of business on East Main Street in Somerville.
Jacquish was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, 3rd degree, and Reynolds was charged with attempt to possess a controlled dangerous substance, 3rd degree. Both men were released on their own recognizance.
According to investigators, Scott R. Jacquish, 32, of Brennan Way in Hillsborough and David M. Reynolds, 31, of Amwell Road in the Clover Hill area were arrested on June 9 after Federal Homeland Security agents notified Hillsborough Police Detectives that an international package addressed to Jacquish containing a quantity of the anabolic steroid Strombaject (Stanozolol) was intercepted and would be turned over to Hillsborough Police for further investigation.
Police said search warrants were executed on Jacquish’s residence, as well Reynolds’ place of business on East Main Street in Somerville.
Jacquish was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, 3rd degree, and Reynolds was charged with attempt to possess a controlled dangerous substance, 3rd degree. Both men were released on their own recognizance.
Colorado Springs pharmacist sentenced to fourty months foir HGH smuggling from China.
A federal judge in Denver today sentenced a former Colorado Springs pharmacist to 40 months in prison for smuggling human growth hormones from China.
U.S. District Court Marcia S. Krieger also let stand a jury verdict that calls for Thomas Bader to forfeit $4.8 million in assets obtained through the sale and distribution of HGH.
“Mr. Bader is a good man,” Krieger told a courtroom with about 27 of his friends and family members in the audience.
“But like most of us he is neither a hero or a villain or a victim,” the judge added. “He is a person who has made choices and whom the law holds accountable for those choices.”
Bader, 66, is the former owner of College Pharmacy. He sold the business in December 2007.
“Had I known that what I was doing was illegal, I wouldn’t have done it,” the white-haired defendant said, wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit. “I thought I was following the law, but I stand before you convicted.”
Bader said he turned down plea offers, believing that a jury would find him innocent of the charges.
Instead, a jury convicted him on Feb. 2 following a four-week trial.
“I just wanted to clear my name,” Bader told the judge. “I am faced with losing everything that I have worked for my entire life. I don’t think it’s deserved.”
The jury found him guilty of conspiracy, smuggling and distribution of human growth hormones plus possession with the intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
Krieger dismissed about 24 other counts against Bader in April and sentenced him today on the remaining eight counts.
The judge said she respected Bader’s sincerity and his attempts to challenge the regulations imposed on HGH by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration through two civil lawsuits.
But by importing HGH, Krieger said Bader was acting like a drug manufacturer, except that he wasn’t subject to inspection and regulations that are aimed at protecting the public.
“This is a case about a failure to recognize what regulations apply and to comply with them when they disagreed with what he thought the law should be,” the judge said near the end of a five-hour sentencing hearing. “This is a case about arrogance and greed.”
Bader’s lawyer Charles H. Torres said they will appeal the conviction, contending that the laws his client was found guilty of breaking are not clear.
“I think this area of the law is extremely unsettled,” Torres said. “It’s too bad Mr. Bader had to be the first to deal with this uncertainty.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaime Peña, however, said Bader’s criminal conduct was clear and repetitive.
“This was blatant criminal conduct over a period of time,” Pena told the judge. “Ultimately, this comes down to making money,” Peña concluded. “He may have been at the end of his career, but he was going to cash out.”
The $4.8 million verdict applies to properties in several states, including the building in which College Pharmacy is located at 3505 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Peña said. But the existing business and the government have a separate agreement that will enable the pharmacy to continue doing business there, he said.
U.S. District Court Marcia S. Krieger also let stand a jury verdict that calls for Thomas Bader to forfeit $4.8 million in assets obtained through the sale and distribution of HGH.
“Mr. Bader is a good man,” Krieger told a courtroom with about 27 of his friends and family members in the audience.
“But like most of us he is neither a hero or a villain or a victim,” the judge added. “He is a person who has made choices and whom the law holds accountable for those choices.”
Bader, 66, is the former owner of College Pharmacy. He sold the business in December 2007.
“Had I known that what I was doing was illegal, I wouldn’t have done it,” the white-haired defendant said, wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit. “I thought I was following the law, but I stand before you convicted.”
Bader said he turned down plea offers, believing that a jury would find him innocent of the charges.
Instead, a jury convicted him on Feb. 2 following a four-week trial.
“I just wanted to clear my name,” Bader told the judge. “I am faced with losing everything that I have worked for my entire life. I don’t think it’s deserved.”
The jury found him guilty of conspiracy, smuggling and distribution of human growth hormones plus possession with the intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
Krieger dismissed about 24 other counts against Bader in April and sentenced him today on the remaining eight counts.
The judge said she respected Bader’s sincerity and his attempts to challenge the regulations imposed on HGH by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration through two civil lawsuits.
But by importing HGH, Krieger said Bader was acting like a drug manufacturer, except that he wasn’t subject to inspection and regulations that are aimed at protecting the public.
“This is a case about a failure to recognize what regulations apply and to comply with them when they disagreed with what he thought the law should be,” the judge said near the end of a five-hour sentencing hearing. “This is a case about arrogance and greed.”
Bader’s lawyer Charles H. Torres said they will appeal the conviction, contending that the laws his client was found guilty of breaking are not clear.
“I think this area of the law is extremely unsettled,” Torres said. “It’s too bad Mr. Bader had to be the first to deal with this uncertainty.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaime Peña, however, said Bader’s criminal conduct was clear and repetitive.
“This was blatant criminal conduct over a period of time,” Pena told the judge. “Ultimately, this comes down to making money,” Peña concluded. “He may have been at the end of his career, but he was going to cash out.”
The $4.8 million verdict applies to properties in several states, including the building in which College Pharmacy is located at 3505 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Peña said. But the existing business and the government have a separate agreement that will enable the pharmacy to continue doing business there, he said.
Israel plans to crack down on pharmaceutical smuggling.
Most phony or illegal drugs are sold via the Internet or smuggled in as "personal imports," Health Ministry, customs officials say.
Although pharmaceutical crime in Israel – marketing medications with the wrong ingredients or without active ones, in incorrect amounts or under unsuitable conditions – kills, none of the few criminals actually prosecuted has been sent to prison.
So said Mickey Arieli, director of the Health Ministry’s Pharmaceutical Crime Unit, during the annual meeting of the Permanent Forum of International Pharmaceutical Crime, which is taking place this week.
Representatives of leading official pharmaceutical crime fighters – police officers, pharmacists and regulators from the US, Canada, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the UK and New Zealand – came here for the five-day conference despite Israel’s diplomatic problems. They are meeting at the capital’s Dan Panorama Hotel and touring relevant sites around the country until Friday.
Kiosks sell illegal amphetamines to teenagers, who are even more endangered by taking them at parties in combination with alcohol.
As Israel has a national health insurance system, patients can usually get necessary medications via their health funds. But “lifestyle drugs” for treating obesity, erectile dysfunction and balding, for example, are not covered and are popular among pharmaceutical criminals who aim to make huge profits.
As many Israelis are multilingual and have additional passports as immigrants from other countries, criminals among them have an advantage in pharmaceutical crime. Virtual pharmacies can carry out money laundering, Arieli said.
A raid by Haifa police caught a network of Jews, Druse and Muslim and Christian Arabs working harmoniously as a network distributing illegal anabolic steroids all over the country, he added. Criminals from Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon and Syria have been known to work with Israelis to make profits on counterfeit, diverted and other illegal drugs here.
Arieli told the conference participants, most of whom had never been in Israel before, that some illegal products are printed with labels claiming a Health Ministry license, even though they do not contain what they are supposed to. He mentioned a component in a “natural product” for impotence named Zebra, which was seized in Rehovot.
“It was done professionally, complete with holograms to supposedly show authenticity. But it contained a prescription drug for impotence that may not be sold over the counter. The whole gang was arrested.”
The pharmaceutical crime unit head said that some Israel Police units were very helpful, while in other regions they were apathetic. Without the full cooperation of government agencies, it is impossible for the unit to function, Arieli added. Suspects caught with the goods are often not prosecuted, and those found guilty are frequently not given more than a negligible fine, he said.
While the unit’s need for more professional staffers is urgent, a senior Health Ministry official told The Jerusalem Post that the Treasury has the sole power to approve additional investigators. The unit has found fake or illegal drugs in commercial pharmacies as well as in kiosks, storehouses and shipments.
Arieli said that while his unit has had major successes in identifying criminals, “we have reached only the tip of the iceberg, and we haven’t succeeded in educating the public about the dangers of buying medicine from unauthorized sources.
“We have hopes of building up our unit, but we need official investigative powers. At present, we can only ‘interview’ a suspect. We have no cooperation from the Agriculture Ministry on fake veterinary drugs. A lifeguard on a Tel Aviv beach has more powers than us. All we want to do is protect public heath.”
A representative of Israel Customs said that personal imports brought in by mail or in the luggage of incoming travelers was a growing problem, as the law gives visitors the right to bring in a “60-day personal supply” of medications for their own use.
But, she asked, “how much is a 60-day supply of Viagra or Cialis?” Some bring in hundreds of pills and say it is for their use for 60 days, she said.
Although pharmaceutical crime in Israel – marketing medications with the wrong ingredients or without active ones, in incorrect amounts or under unsuitable conditions – kills, none of the few criminals actually prosecuted has been sent to prison.
So said Mickey Arieli, director of the Health Ministry’s Pharmaceutical Crime Unit, during the annual meeting of the Permanent Forum of International Pharmaceutical Crime, which is taking place this week.
Representatives of leading official pharmaceutical crime fighters – police officers, pharmacists and regulators from the US, Canada, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the UK and New Zealand – came here for the five-day conference despite Israel’s diplomatic problems. They are meeting at the capital’s Dan Panorama Hotel and touring relevant sites around the country until Friday.
Kiosks sell illegal amphetamines to teenagers, who are even more endangered by taking them at parties in combination with alcohol.
As Israel has a national health insurance system, patients can usually get necessary medications via their health funds. But “lifestyle drugs” for treating obesity, erectile dysfunction and balding, for example, are not covered and are popular among pharmaceutical criminals who aim to make huge profits.
As many Israelis are multilingual and have additional passports as immigrants from other countries, criminals among them have an advantage in pharmaceutical crime. Virtual pharmacies can carry out money laundering, Arieli said.
A raid by Haifa police caught a network of Jews, Druse and Muslim and Christian Arabs working harmoniously as a network distributing illegal anabolic steroids all over the country, he added. Criminals from Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon and Syria have been known to work with Israelis to make profits on counterfeit, diverted and other illegal drugs here.
Arieli told the conference participants, most of whom had never been in Israel before, that some illegal products are printed with labels claiming a Health Ministry license, even though they do not contain what they are supposed to. He mentioned a component in a “natural product” for impotence named Zebra, which was seized in Rehovot.
“It was done professionally, complete with holograms to supposedly show authenticity. But it contained a prescription drug for impotence that may not be sold over the counter. The whole gang was arrested.”
The pharmaceutical crime unit head said that some Israel Police units were very helpful, while in other regions they were apathetic. Without the full cooperation of government agencies, it is impossible for the unit to function, Arieli added. Suspects caught with the goods are often not prosecuted, and those found guilty are frequently not given more than a negligible fine, he said.
While the unit’s need for more professional staffers is urgent, a senior Health Ministry official told The Jerusalem Post that the Treasury has the sole power to approve additional investigators. The unit has found fake or illegal drugs in commercial pharmacies as well as in kiosks, storehouses and shipments.
Arieli said that while his unit has had major successes in identifying criminals, “we have reached only the tip of the iceberg, and we haven’t succeeded in educating the public about the dangers of buying medicine from unauthorized sources.
“We have hopes of building up our unit, but we need official investigative powers. At present, we can only ‘interview’ a suspect. We have no cooperation from the Agriculture Ministry on fake veterinary drugs. A lifeguard on a Tel Aviv beach has more powers than us. All we want to do is protect public heath.”
A representative of Israel Customs said that personal imports brought in by mail or in the luggage of incoming travelers was a growing problem, as the law gives visitors the right to bring in a “60-day personal supply” of medications for their own use.
But, she asked, “how much is a 60-day supply of Viagra or Cialis?” Some bring in hundreds of pills and say it is for their use for 60 days, she said.
GeneScience of China ( maker of Jintropin HGH ) being sued by parents of the girl ( bodybuilder and steroid dealer ) David Jacobs killed.
Parents say a man shot their daughter to death in his home, then killed himself, in a fit of "'roid rage" brought on by taking illegal anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. The parents of Amana Jo Earhart-Savell sued Lei Jin and GeneScience Pharmaceutical, both of Shanghai.
Lei Jin is a Chinese citizen and a legal permanent resident of the United States who sometimes lives in Madison, Wisconsin, Gary and Kathy Earhart say in their federal complaint.
The Earharts say that David Jacobs intentionally killed their daughter in his Plano home on June 5, 2008, then killed himself, as a result of the steroids and human growth hormones he was taking.
"David Jacobs had previously been indicted and plead[ed] guilty to conspiring to sell anabolic steroids," according to the complaint. "Defendants knew the dangerous nature of the products they were selling unlawfully and knew that its products could and would cause harm to others, including but not limited to causing explosive rage in individuals using their products. Defendants were motivated entirely by greed and acted in conscious indifference to the rights, health and safety of others."
The complaint adds: "GeneScience was engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing, exporting, and distributing human Growth Hormone (hGH) under the brand name GenLei Jintropin (hereinafter Jintropin) as well as anabolic steroids. GeneScience utilized the internet and various intermediaries to export Jintropin and steroids into the United States and other countries throughout the world." (Parentheses as in complaint.)
The parents seek damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium and other charges, and want the defendants enjoined from selling their stuff. They are represented by David Schiller of Plano.
Lei Jin is a Chinese citizen and a legal permanent resident of the United States who sometimes lives in Madison, Wisconsin, Gary and Kathy Earhart say in their federal complaint.
The Earharts say that David Jacobs intentionally killed their daughter in his Plano home on June 5, 2008, then killed himself, as a result of the steroids and human growth hormones he was taking.
"David Jacobs had previously been indicted and plead[ed] guilty to conspiring to sell anabolic steroids," according to the complaint. "Defendants knew the dangerous nature of the products they were selling unlawfully and knew that its products could and would cause harm to others, including but not limited to causing explosive rage in individuals using their products. Defendants were motivated entirely by greed and acted in conscious indifference to the rights, health and safety of others."
The complaint adds: "GeneScience was engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing, exporting, and distributing human Growth Hormone (hGH) under the brand name GenLei Jintropin (hereinafter Jintropin) as well as anabolic steroids. GeneScience utilized the internet and various intermediaries to export Jintropin and steroids into the United States and other countries throughout the world." (Parentheses as in complaint.)
The parents seek damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium and other charges, and want the defendants enjoined from selling their stuff. They are represented by David Schiller of Plano.
Nightclub owner's younger brother survives hit and beats steroid charges.
FADI Ibrahim has escaped a conviction for possessing steroids because police failed to check who the drugs belonged to.
The younger brother of Kings Cross nightclub boss, John Ibrahim, faced Hornsby Local Court this morning charged with nine counts of possessing steroids without a prescription.
The drugs, in liquid and pill form, were found in a kitchen cupboard, a bedroom and a wardrobe of his Castle Cove home during a police search on December 23 last year.
In a hearing of the case, police confirmed they charged Ibrahim without checking how many people were living at the house. The court heard that another man, Alla Kassoua, was living with Ibrahim at the time.
Police Prosecutor Richard Taylor said even if the steroids were not Ibrahim's, he must have known they were in his house because some of the drugs were found near his bank books and beside a pill box containing medication he took daily.
Ibrahim was taking large doses of prescription drugs at the time while he recovered from gunshot wounds.
The 35-year-old was shot five times at point blank range as he sat in his luxury Lamborghini with his girlfriend in June last year.
Mr Taylor said the charge of possession extends to knowledge of a substance and failure to do anything to remove it.
"The fact is (Ibrahim) knew they were there and he did nothing about it," he said.
But Ibrahim's defence lawyer, Brett Galloway, said there was no case for his client to answer as the police could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that the steroids were his or that he knew of their existence.
He said the police hadn't done their job properly and the court couldn't rule out that the drugs belonged to Mr Kassoua, who was not charged.
Magistrate McGowan agreed that the prosecution case had not been proved and she dismissed all charges.
In applying for the prosecution to pay Ibrahim's legal costs, Mr Galloway said the police had "unreasonably" pursued the case against his client because of his "infamous family" - a suggestion Mr Taylor dismissed as "outrageous."
"There was a link between the substances he had been prescribed and the restricted substances found...they were side by side," Mr Taylor said.
"It was reasonable to commence proceedings and continue with them."
Magistrate McGowan will make a decision regarding costs this afternoon.
The younger brother of Kings Cross nightclub boss, John Ibrahim, faced Hornsby Local Court this morning charged with nine counts of possessing steroids without a prescription.
The drugs, in liquid and pill form, were found in a kitchen cupboard, a bedroom and a wardrobe of his Castle Cove home during a police search on December 23 last year.
In a hearing of the case, police confirmed they charged Ibrahim without checking how many people were living at the house. The court heard that another man, Alla Kassoua, was living with Ibrahim at the time.
Police Prosecutor Richard Taylor said even if the steroids were not Ibrahim's, he must have known they were in his house because some of the drugs were found near his bank books and beside a pill box containing medication he took daily.
Ibrahim was taking large doses of prescription drugs at the time while he recovered from gunshot wounds.
The 35-year-old was shot five times at point blank range as he sat in his luxury Lamborghini with his girlfriend in June last year.
Mr Taylor said the charge of possession extends to knowledge of a substance and failure to do anything to remove it.
"The fact is (Ibrahim) knew they were there and he did nothing about it," he said.
But Ibrahim's defence lawyer, Brett Galloway, said there was no case for his client to answer as the police could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that the steroids were his or that he knew of their existence.
He said the police hadn't done their job properly and the court couldn't rule out that the drugs belonged to Mr Kassoua, who was not charged.
Magistrate McGowan agreed that the prosecution case had not been proved and she dismissed all charges.
In applying for the prosecution to pay Ibrahim's legal costs, Mr Galloway said the police had "unreasonably" pursued the case against his client because of his "infamous family" - a suggestion Mr Taylor dismissed as "outrageous."
"There was a link between the substances he had been prescribed and the restricted substances found...they were side by side," Mr Taylor said.
"It was reasonable to commence proceedings and continue with them."
Magistrate McGowan will make a decision regarding costs this afternoon.
Three police officers arrested for steroid possession.
Police Capt. Daniel D. Zampelli said three members of the Akron Police Department were arrested Sunday and charged with violations related to anabolic steroids.
Those arrested include police Sgt. Shawn Boal, 38, and a 14-year member of the Akron Police Department. He is currently assigned to the midnight patrol shift as a first-line supervisor.
Boal has been charged with one felony count of drug abuse -- anabolic steroids over bulk amount.
Also arrested was Patrolman Paul Achberger, 39, an 11-year member of the department.
Achberger is also assigned to the midnight shift as a patrol officer and was charged with one misdemeanor count of drug abuse -- anabolic steroids and drug abuse instruments -- for possessing hypodermic needles.
The third is Patrolman Anthony Sutton, 49, and a 15-year member of the department.
Sutton is assigned to the day shift patrol. Sutton has been charged with one misdemeanor count of drug abuse -- steroids and drug abuse -- instruments.
All three officers are currently on administrative leave with pay.
The investigation is ongoing and police said no further details will not be released at this time.
Those arrested include police Sgt. Shawn Boal, 38, and a 14-year member of the Akron Police Department. He is currently assigned to the midnight patrol shift as a first-line supervisor.
Boal has been charged with one felony count of drug abuse -- anabolic steroids over bulk amount.
Also arrested was Patrolman Paul Achberger, 39, an 11-year member of the department.
Achberger is also assigned to the midnight shift as a patrol officer and was charged with one misdemeanor count of drug abuse -- anabolic steroids and drug abuse instruments -- for possessing hypodermic needles.
The third is Patrolman Anthony Sutton, 49, and a 15-year member of the department.
Sutton is assigned to the day shift patrol. Sutton has been charged with one misdemeanor count of drug abuse -- steroids and drug abuse -- instruments.
All three officers are currently on administrative leave with pay.
The investigation is ongoing and police said no further details will not be released at this time.
Overview of anti-doping at the South African Wold Cup.
( current Van der Merwe jokes from South African readers welcome in comments )
FIFA hopes the 2010 World Cup will not see a repeat of 1994's Diego Maradona doping scandal, but if any players do get busted for drugs, Pieter van der Merwe will be the man who busts them.
Van der Merwe is the head of the South African Doping Control Laboratory at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, the official drug testing lab of the June 11 to July 11 tournament.
He oversees the running of the 1.6-million-dollar (1.3-million-euro) equipment that analyses the urine samples FIFA collects randomly from players and delivers by courier to the university's pharmacology department.
Testing began during the pre-tournament training phase and will continue through to the final with tests after each match. Van der Merwe and his staff are working virtually around the clock to get test results back to FIFA within 24 hours.
Their machines include six gas chromatograph mass spectrometers, which heat the samples to 300 degrees Celsius to separate out the various components, and three liquid chromatograph mass spectrometers that analyse the samples at room-temperature to avoid destroying heat-sensitive compounds.
Technicians prepare the samples in a room reminiscent of a secondary school chemistry lab, then introduce them into the gleaming, whirring machines.
The highly sensitive instruments separate the samples' components and identify each compound.
"It's almost like a fingerprint of a human," Van der Merwe said of the measurement.
The machines then send their output to computers that graph the concentration of each material.
A spike in the graph for any one of the more than 100 substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency -- from steroids to stimulants to diuretics to narcotics -- could mean a doping scandal for the World Cup.
Van der Merwe said he is happy that part of the process is in FIFA's hands.
"We just do the scientific part of it and then we report to the sporting body. What happens to the positive dope testing is in their hands," he told AFP.
"The science is easier than the politics, because science is true facts that you can work on, while the politicians are working on other types of things," he said.
The World Cup has been blessed with a relatively doping-free history, the notable exception being when Argentine bad-boy Maradona was kicked out of the 1994 tournament after testing positive for the stimulant ephedrine.
The football legend is back at the World Cup this year as Argentina's head coach, the first time he has participated in the tournament since.
FIFA hopes the 2010 World Cup will not see a repeat of 1994's Diego Maradona doping scandal, but if any players do get busted for drugs, Pieter van der Merwe will be the man who busts them.
Van der Merwe is the head of the South African Doping Control Laboratory at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, the official drug testing lab of the June 11 to July 11 tournament.
He oversees the running of the 1.6-million-dollar (1.3-million-euro) equipment that analyses the urine samples FIFA collects randomly from players and delivers by courier to the university's pharmacology department.
Testing began during the pre-tournament training phase and will continue through to the final with tests after each match. Van der Merwe and his staff are working virtually around the clock to get test results back to FIFA within 24 hours.
Their machines include six gas chromatograph mass spectrometers, which heat the samples to 300 degrees Celsius to separate out the various components, and three liquid chromatograph mass spectrometers that analyse the samples at room-temperature to avoid destroying heat-sensitive compounds.
Technicians prepare the samples in a room reminiscent of a secondary school chemistry lab, then introduce them into the gleaming, whirring machines.
The highly sensitive instruments separate the samples' components and identify each compound.
"It's almost like a fingerprint of a human," Van der Merwe said of the measurement.
The machines then send their output to computers that graph the concentration of each material.
A spike in the graph for any one of the more than 100 substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency -- from steroids to stimulants to diuretics to narcotics -- could mean a doping scandal for the World Cup.
Van der Merwe said he is happy that part of the process is in FIFA's hands.
"We just do the scientific part of it and then we report to the sporting body. What happens to the positive dope testing is in their hands," he told AFP.
"The science is easier than the politics, because science is true facts that you can work on, while the politicians are working on other types of things," he said.
The World Cup has been blessed with a relatively doping-free history, the notable exception being when Argentine bad-boy Maradona was kicked out of the 1994 tournament after testing positive for the stimulant ephedrine.
The football legend is back at the World Cup this year as Argentina's head coach, the first time he has participated in the tournament since.
Britain gets anti-doping twenty four hour hotline.
It's perhaps unsurprising that an organisation staffed by former police officers should be encouraging snouts to drum up evidence of wrong-doing.
Yet it’s disturbing that an initiative announced yesterday by the UK Anti-Doping agency wants whistle-blowers to report suspected drug cheats.
The launch of a confidential 24-hour hotline encourages anonymous callers – athletes, coaches, support staff, and even concerned parents and friends – to provide tip-offs about those they think might be cheats, or supply and traffic in performance-enhancing substances.
At first sight this may appear sound. More cheats have been outed in the US on the evidence of whistle-blowers than by the tens of millions of dollars invested in anti-doping tests by the Olympic movement and World Anti-Doping Agency.
Informants presented evidence of a designer steroid and testimony about cheats. But in the US, those providing such evidence were all identified and examined individually, usually by the FBI. They did not remain anonymous. Significantly this triggered the Balco affair which exposed a raft of cheats, including multiple Olympic medallist Marion Jones who was jailed. Not for failing an anti-doping control, however (she passed 167 tests) but for lying to the FBI.
That the world’s greatest serial cheat should pass tests developed at a cost of millions explains UKAD’s latest initiative. Drug tests are not cost-effective.
I detest drug cheats with a passion, but it’s self-evident that the anonymous British system will be open to abuse, a charter for envious rivals to make malicious mischief and waste public money by dialing the Report Doping In Sport hotline (0800 032 2332) which will be staffed by Crimestoppers operators with appropriate training.
Evidence will be as suspect as that from underworld informers with an agenda. Any number of law-abiding members of the public can use steroids, beta blockers, or countless other substances which would be judged cheating in the sports arena, but not elsewhere. Some banned substances are legitimately used by athletes holding a valid therapeutic-use exemption certificate. Why would a whistle-blower be aware of who possesses one? Countless meaningless calls are guaranteed. Every athlete using an asthmatic inhaler or taking any kind of medication, TicTac or Parma Violet risks needless – and pointless – invasion of privacy.
Where will it end? Can’t stand that guy who beat me in the squash ladder last week. He’s jolly muscular. Must be on the gear.
UKAD chief executive Andy Parkinson believes clean athletes will be protected from malicious calls, “as we are going to verify that intelligence before we act on it”.
I think he is living in a dream world. Yet UKAD considers this a key tool in protecting the integrity of sport on the run-in to 2012.
Yet it’s disturbing that an initiative announced yesterday by the UK Anti-Doping agency wants whistle-blowers to report suspected drug cheats.
The launch of a confidential 24-hour hotline encourages anonymous callers – athletes, coaches, support staff, and even concerned parents and friends – to provide tip-offs about those they think might be cheats, or supply and traffic in performance-enhancing substances.
At first sight this may appear sound. More cheats have been outed in the US on the evidence of whistle-blowers than by the tens of millions of dollars invested in anti-doping tests by the Olympic movement and World Anti-Doping Agency.
Informants presented evidence of a designer steroid and testimony about cheats. But in the US, those providing such evidence were all identified and examined individually, usually by the FBI. They did not remain anonymous. Significantly this triggered the Balco affair which exposed a raft of cheats, including multiple Olympic medallist Marion Jones who was jailed. Not for failing an anti-doping control, however (she passed 167 tests) but for lying to the FBI.
That the world’s greatest serial cheat should pass tests developed at a cost of millions explains UKAD’s latest initiative. Drug tests are not cost-effective.
I detest drug cheats with a passion, but it’s self-evident that the anonymous British system will be open to abuse, a charter for envious rivals to make malicious mischief and waste public money by dialing the Report Doping In Sport hotline (0800 032 2332) which will be staffed by Crimestoppers operators with appropriate training.
Evidence will be as suspect as that from underworld informers with an agenda. Any number of law-abiding members of the public can use steroids, beta blockers, or countless other substances which would be judged cheating in the sports arena, but not elsewhere. Some banned substances are legitimately used by athletes holding a valid therapeutic-use exemption certificate. Why would a whistle-blower be aware of who possesses one? Countless meaningless calls are guaranteed. Every athlete using an asthmatic inhaler or taking any kind of medication, TicTac or Parma Violet risks needless – and pointless – invasion of privacy.
Where will it end? Can’t stand that guy who beat me in the squash ladder last week. He’s jolly muscular. Must be on the gear.
UKAD chief executive Andy Parkinson believes clean athletes will be protected from malicious calls, “as we are going to verify that intelligence before we act on it”.
I think he is living in a dream world. Yet UKAD considers this a key tool in protecting the integrity of sport on the run-in to 2012.
Oregon man faces steroid distribution charges after FBI's Canby police corruption case.
An Oregon City man who accepted a plea deal in state court last year, admitting he sold steroids to a Canby police officer, now faces federal allegations of steroid distribution, the first federal indictment stemming from the FBI's Canby police corruption case.
Brian Casey Paul Jackson, 37, was arraigned in U.S. District Court on Friday afternoon after he was arrested in the parking lot of his Beaverton employer.
Before a row of friends and family, Jackson pleaded not guilty to two counts of distribution of anabolic steroids and two counts of distribution of human growth hormone. He's accused of selling steroids between 2005 and 2007, and the human growth hormone through May 2008.
He also faced a separate federal indictment, accusing him of fraud.
An FBI investigation that arose out of the agents' inquiry into steroid sales alleges that Jackson and his then-fiancee falsely reported the theft of her 2006 Subaru Legacy in September 2007, stripped it of its leather seats and a rear spoiler, and then burned the vehicle.
Once the insurance claim was settled for $26,614, Jackson is accused of selling the stripped parts on the Internet and depositing the proceeds into their joint checking account, according to a federal search warrant affidavit. He shipped the spoiler to a buyer in Bend, and sent the leather seats via FedEx to a buyer in Canada, the indictment alleges.
Jackson pleaded not guilty Friday to three counts of fraud involving use of the mail and commercial carrier in connection with the burned vehicle case.
Assistant federal public defender Harold Ducloux represented Jackson in court Friday. Jackson, booked in at 6-foot- 6, 300 pounds, was expected to be released from Multnomah County Detention Center by late Friday. A jury trial was set for Aug. 10.
Court records show that the federal charges were pursued after Jackson, a former Oregon City High School strength and conditioning coach, stopped cooperating with an ongoing FBI investigation looking into his sale of steroids to other law enforcement officers.
On May 21, 2009, Jackson was sentenced to 30 days in jail in Clackamas County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to delivery of a controlled substance. At that time, Jackson only admitted in court that he sold and supplied then-Canby officer Jason Deason with steroids. Deason was seen riding his police motorcycle to Oregon City, and purchasing steroids from Jackson while on duty and in uniform.
As part of his plea deal with the state, Jackson had agreed to submit to a FBI polygraph to determine whether his denials of more extensive steroid sales were to be believed. The polygraph found him to be "deceptive," the federal affidavit says.
Two days after federal agents were advised that Jackson would no longer cooperate with their investigation, the FBI asked for further analysis of the hard drives from two computers they had seized from his home, and began questioning numerous friends, acquaintances and associates of Jackson, an affidavit says.
In contrast, Canby resident William Jake Traverso, who also sold to Deason, cooperated extensively with the FBI by identifying other law enforcement officers he sold steroids to, and got a lenient sentence of 15 days in jail, 30 days home detention and 24 months probation, with no federal charges.
Jackson admitted to the FBI that he had used steroids in the 1990s and switched to human growth hormone to ease back pain after a motorcycle accident. Jackson and Deason worked out together at a gym in Oregon City, where they'd run into Traverso, a former competitive bodybuilder. Soon, the three men were sharing tips on anabolic steroids and how to get them, court records show. Traverso told the FBI that Jackson was his main supplier of steroid pills from 2002 through 2005.
Jackson was let go as an assistant coach for the Oregon City girls basketball team in May 2008 during the FBI inquiry. But the school athletic director said the school had no evidence Jackson sold steroids to student athletes. Thursday night, he was arrested in the parking lot of his current employer, Western International Forest Products.
Brian Casey Paul Jackson, 37, was arraigned in U.S. District Court on Friday afternoon after he was arrested in the parking lot of his Beaverton employer.
Before a row of friends and family, Jackson pleaded not guilty to two counts of distribution of anabolic steroids and two counts of distribution of human growth hormone. He's accused of selling steroids between 2005 and 2007, and the human growth hormone through May 2008.
He also faced a separate federal indictment, accusing him of fraud.
An FBI investigation that arose out of the agents' inquiry into steroid sales alleges that Jackson and his then-fiancee falsely reported the theft of her 2006 Subaru Legacy in September 2007, stripped it of its leather seats and a rear spoiler, and then burned the vehicle.
Once the insurance claim was settled for $26,614, Jackson is accused of selling the stripped parts on the Internet and depositing the proceeds into their joint checking account, according to a federal search warrant affidavit. He shipped the spoiler to a buyer in Bend, and sent the leather seats via FedEx to a buyer in Canada, the indictment alleges.
Jackson pleaded not guilty Friday to three counts of fraud involving use of the mail and commercial carrier in connection with the burned vehicle case.
Assistant federal public defender Harold Ducloux represented Jackson in court Friday. Jackson, booked in at 6-foot- 6, 300 pounds, was expected to be released from Multnomah County Detention Center by late Friday. A jury trial was set for Aug. 10.
Court records show that the federal charges were pursued after Jackson, a former Oregon City High School strength and conditioning coach, stopped cooperating with an ongoing FBI investigation looking into his sale of steroids to other law enforcement officers.
On May 21, 2009, Jackson was sentenced to 30 days in jail in Clackamas County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to delivery of a controlled substance. At that time, Jackson only admitted in court that he sold and supplied then-Canby officer Jason Deason with steroids. Deason was seen riding his police motorcycle to Oregon City, and purchasing steroids from Jackson while on duty and in uniform.
As part of his plea deal with the state, Jackson had agreed to submit to a FBI polygraph to determine whether his denials of more extensive steroid sales were to be believed. The polygraph found him to be "deceptive," the federal affidavit says.
Two days after federal agents were advised that Jackson would no longer cooperate with their investigation, the FBI asked for further analysis of the hard drives from two computers they had seized from his home, and began questioning numerous friends, acquaintances and associates of Jackson, an affidavit says.
In contrast, Canby resident William Jake Traverso, who also sold to Deason, cooperated extensively with the FBI by identifying other law enforcement officers he sold steroids to, and got a lenient sentence of 15 days in jail, 30 days home detention and 24 months probation, with no federal charges.
Jackson admitted to the FBI that he had used steroids in the 1990s and switched to human growth hormone to ease back pain after a motorcycle accident. Jackson and Deason worked out together at a gym in Oregon City, where they'd run into Traverso, a former competitive bodybuilder. Soon, the three men were sharing tips on anabolic steroids and how to get them, court records show. Traverso told the FBI that Jackson was his main supplier of steroid pills from 2002 through 2005.
Jackson was let go as an assistant coach for the Oregon City girls basketball team in May 2008 during the FBI inquiry. But the school athletic director said the school had no evidence Jackson sold steroids to student athletes. Thursday night, he was arrested in the parking lot of his current employer, Western International Forest Products.
Australian bodybuilders caught on CCTV robbing stables.
Police are hoping these grainy images will help them identify three brazen thieves who stole horse steroids and other drugs from a Grafton horse trainer’s stables two months ago. The images were taken from closed circuit television footage of a break-in and robbery at Hosier Lodge, run by Phil McLeod and Pat Cunningham, at the corner of Turf and Oliver streets in Grafton, about 10pm on April 2 this year.
According to Detective Senior Constable Matt Sippel, the video showed three “heavy set blokes” going into a storeroom at the stables and taking a quantity of drugs used to treat horses overcoming injury or out of competition.
“The three of them look like they are in their early 20s,” Detective Sippel said.
“The video of the break-in is much clearer.
“It shows one guy with a white cap and a prominent armband style tattoo on each arm.
“They definitely knew what they were doing.
“They went straight to where the drugs were held and took what they wanted.”
The thieves got 2.5kg of XL, a muscle supplement and one tub of nitrotain, a potentially dangerous synthetic hormone paste used to treat injuries.
It is sometimes used by bodybuilders and internet sites claim it can add two to three kilograms of body mass in 21 days.
“You wouldn’t want to take this stuff,” Detective Sippel said.
In the CCTV footage, the three thieves look completely casual as they walk around the complex, looking behind stable doors.
Purchase Meds Inc. owner sentenced to nine years for smuggling steroids.
The owner of a Tinley Park home-based business, previously sued for allegedly swindling the elderly , has been sentenced to nine years in prison in connection with a steroid smuggling ring.
Rick Boros, 66, was one of the owners of Purchase Meds Inc., which smuggled anabolic steroids and other prescription drugs from Mexico and Belize, hiding the substances in women's shoes and electronics from 2003 to 2006, according to federal prosecutors.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall sentenced Boros to 108 months behind bars, plus five years' probation once he's released, according to an Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman.
Boros, of Hinsdale, who also went by the alias Vince Kwiatkowski, was convicted in May 2008 on multiple felony charges.
Federal authorities said Boros obtained fraudulent prescriptions from doctors for customers' steroids and medications such as Xanax.
Two other co-defendants had been processing an average of 50 Internet and telephone orders a day from throughout the United States at the company's headquarters, based in a home in the 17200 block of Oriole Avenue in Tinley Park, prosecutors said. They said other customers showed up from a nearby gym to purchase steroids at the house.
He spent the money, the SEC alleged, on "women's accessories" at an Orland Park Lover's Lane store for his secretary, in addition to paying off personal credit card debt, maintaining three BMWs and paying for spas and salon services for himself and his wife.
Boros remains behind bars in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago's Loop.
Six other people, including two from Tinley Park, were charged in the steroids operation. Randy Soderlund was sentenced to a year in prison, and Larry Calow committed suicide in 2008 before he was scheduled to be sentenced.
Rick Boros, 66, was one of the owners of Purchase Meds Inc., which smuggled anabolic steroids and other prescription drugs from Mexico and Belize, hiding the substances in women's shoes and electronics from 2003 to 2006, according to federal prosecutors.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall sentenced Boros to 108 months behind bars, plus five years' probation once he's released, according to an Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman.
Boros, of Hinsdale, who also went by the alias Vince Kwiatkowski, was convicted in May 2008 on multiple felony charges.
Federal authorities said Boros obtained fraudulent prescriptions from doctors for customers' steroids and medications such as Xanax.
Two other co-defendants had been processing an average of 50 Internet and telephone orders a day from throughout the United States at the company's headquarters, based in a home in the 17200 block of Oriole Avenue in Tinley Park, prosecutors said. They said other customers showed up from a nearby gym to purchase steroids at the house.
He spent the money, the SEC alleged, on "women's accessories" at an Orland Park Lover's Lane store for his secretary, in addition to paying off personal credit card debt, maintaining three BMWs and paying for spas and salon services for himself and his wife.
Boros remains behind bars in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago's Loop.
Six other people, including two from Tinley Park, were charged in the steroids operation. Randy Soderlund was sentenced to a year in prison, and Larry Calow committed suicide in 2008 before he was scheduled to be sentenced.
Canadian University football drug cheats will be named June 14 th.
The University of Waterloo football Warriors will come clean on June 14.
That’s the date the university, its sports federation and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport will disclose the names of the team’s drug cheats uncovered after unprecedented team-wide banned substance tests were conducted eight weeks ago.
The joint news conference will likely answer some of the questions dogging the team in the wake of a steroid controversy that ignited at UW in late March.
The fuse was lit once Waterloo Regional Police charged a UW player with trafficking drugs after a large stash of steroids and human growth hormone were found in his possession.
Canadian Interuniversity Sport has had 56 positive drug tests, 45 of those were football players, since the federation began testing for banned substances in 1990.
A pair of football Warriors flunked drug tests over the years, Steve Dean in 1992 and Shawn Dyson in 1997. Both had used anabolic steroids.
But never before has a player been accused of selling illegal drugs in a CIS locker room in what is already Canadian university sport’s biggest drug scandal in history.
As part of its on-going investigation into the alleged trafficking ring, the centre has also tested select football players at Wilfrid Laurier, the University of Guelph and Hamilton’s McMaster University.
No positive drug test results had been reported by the centre to Laurier, a spokesperson told The Record on Tuesday.
The Guelph Mercury reported Tuesday that University of Guelph athletic director Tom Kendall was “absolutely confident” his team was drug-free.
That’s the date the university, its sports federation and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport will disclose the names of the team’s drug cheats uncovered after unprecedented team-wide banned substance tests were conducted eight weeks ago.
The joint news conference will likely answer some of the questions dogging the team in the wake of a steroid controversy that ignited at UW in late March.
The fuse was lit once Waterloo Regional Police charged a UW player with trafficking drugs after a large stash of steroids and human growth hormone were found in his possession.
Canadian Interuniversity Sport has had 56 positive drug tests, 45 of those were football players, since the federation began testing for banned substances in 1990.
A pair of football Warriors flunked drug tests over the years, Steve Dean in 1992 and Shawn Dyson in 1997. Both had used anabolic steroids.
But never before has a player been accused of selling illegal drugs in a CIS locker room in what is already Canadian university sport’s biggest drug scandal in history.
As part of its on-going investigation into the alleged trafficking ring, the centre has also tested select football players at Wilfrid Laurier, the University of Guelph and Hamilton’s McMaster University.
No positive drug test results had been reported by the centre to Laurier, a spokesperson told The Record on Tuesday.
The Guelph Mercury reported Tuesday that University of Guelph athletic director Tom Kendall was “absolutely confident” his team was drug-free.
Fight with girlfriend over steroid use ends up in court.
A 29-year-old Oak Harbor man who allegedly had been using steroids is accused of kicking down a door and threatening to kill his girlfriend, court documents indicate.
Kevin Curry pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court May 24 to charges of harassment and third-degree malicious mischief. Both are domestic-violence related charges.
Oak Harbor Police Officer John Little responded to a report of a “domestic” at an apartment on N. Oak Harbor Street May 4.
The woman who lived in the apartment told the officer that she and her boyfriend, Curry, got into an argument over his use of steroids while they were driving home. She said he got mad and jumped out of the moving car.
The woman said she went home and locked the door, but Curry came and started pounding on the door to get in. He wanted his car keys, so she told him she would toss them to him if he went to the bottom of the stairs.
Instead, Curry kicked in the door, grabbed her car keys and drove off in her car, the officer wrote. Later, Curry called the woman and threatened to “kill her and any police officer that tries to get him,” the report states.
The woman said she was scared because Curry “had been using steroids and is not in the right frame of mind,” Little wrote.
Kevin Curry pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court May 24 to charges of harassment and third-degree malicious mischief. Both are domestic-violence related charges.
Oak Harbor Police Officer John Little responded to a report of a “domestic” at an apartment on N. Oak Harbor Street May 4.
The woman who lived in the apartment told the officer that she and her boyfriend, Curry, got into an argument over his use of steroids while they were driving home. She said he got mad and jumped out of the moving car.
The woman said she went home and locked the door, but Curry came and started pounding on the door to get in. He wanted his car keys, so she told him she would toss them to him if he went to the bottom of the stairs.
Instead, Curry kicked in the door, grabbed her car keys and drove off in her car, the officer wrote. Later, Curry called the woman and threatened to “kill her and any police officer that tries to get him,” the report states.
The woman said she was scared because Curry “had been using steroids and is not in the right frame of mind,” Little wrote.
Just ten minutes of cardio gives an hour of beneficial metabolic changes.
Ten minutes of brisk exercise triggers metabolic changes that last at least an hour. The unfair news for panting newbies: The more fit you are, the more benefits you just might be getting.
We all know that exercise and a good diet are important for health, protecting against heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. But what exactly causes the health improvement from working up a sweat or from eating, say, more olive oil than saturated fat? And are some people biologically predisposed to get more benefit than others?
They're among questions that metabolic profiling, a new field called metabolomics, aims to answer in hopes of one day optimizing those benefits - or finding patterns that may signal risk for disease and new ways to treat it.
"We're only beginning to catalog the metabolic variability between people," says Dr. Robert Gerszten of Massachusetts General Hospital, whose team just took a step toward that goal.
The researchers measured biochemical changes in the blood of a variety of people: the healthy middle-aged, some who became short of breath with exertion, and marathon runners.
First, in 70 healthy people put on a treadmill, the team found more than 20 metabolites that change during exercise, naturally produced compounds involved in burning calories and fat and improving blood-sugar control. Some weren't known until now to be involved with exercise. Some revved up during exercise, like those involved in processing fat. Others involved with cellular stress decreased with exercise.
Those are pretty wonky findings, a first step in a complex field. But they back today's health advice that even brief bouts of activity are good.
"Ten minutes of exercise has at least an hour of effects on your body," says Gerszten, who found some of the metabolic changes that began after 10 minutes on the treadmill still were measurable 60 minutes after people cooled down.
Your heart rate rapidly drops back to normal when you quit moving, usually in 10 minutes or so. So finding lingering biochemical changes offers what Gerszten calls "tantalizing evidence" of how exercise may be building up longer-term benefits.
Back to the blood. Thinner people had greater increases in a metabolite named niacinamide, a nutrient byproduct that's involved in blood-sugar control, the team from Mass General and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard reported last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Checking a metabolite of fat breakdown, the team found people who were more fit - as measured by oxygen intake during exercise - appeared to be burning more fat than the less fit, or than people with shortness of breath, a possible symptom of heart disease.
The extremely fit - 25 Boston Marathon runners - had ten-fold increases in that metabolite after the race. Still other differences in metabolites allowed the researchers to tell which runners had finished in under four hours and which weren't as speedy.
"We have a chemical snapshot of what the more fit person looks like. Now we have to see if making someone's metabolism look like that snapshot, whether or not that's going to improve their performance," says Gerszten, whose ultimate goal is better cardiac care.
Don't expect a pill ever to substitute for a workout - the new work shows how complicated the body's response to exercise is, says metabolomics researcher Dr. Debbie Muoio of Duke University Medical Center.
But scientists are hunting nutritional compounds that might help tweak metabolic processes in specific ways. For example, Muoio discovered the muscles of diabetic animals lack enough of a metabolite named carnitine, and that feeding them more improved their control of blood sugar. Now, Muoio is beginning a pilot study in 25 older adults with pre-diabetes to see if carnitine supplements might work similarly in people who lack enough.
We all know that exercise and a good diet are important for health, protecting against heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. But what exactly causes the health improvement from working up a sweat or from eating, say, more olive oil than saturated fat? And are some people biologically predisposed to get more benefit than others?
They're among questions that metabolic profiling, a new field called metabolomics, aims to answer in hopes of one day optimizing those benefits - or finding patterns that may signal risk for disease and new ways to treat it.
"We're only beginning to catalog the metabolic variability between people," says Dr. Robert Gerszten of Massachusetts General Hospital, whose team just took a step toward that goal.
The researchers measured biochemical changes in the blood of a variety of people: the healthy middle-aged, some who became short of breath with exertion, and marathon runners.
First, in 70 healthy people put on a treadmill, the team found more than 20 metabolites that change during exercise, naturally produced compounds involved in burning calories and fat and improving blood-sugar control. Some weren't known until now to be involved with exercise. Some revved up during exercise, like those involved in processing fat. Others involved with cellular stress decreased with exercise.
Those are pretty wonky findings, a first step in a complex field. But they back today's health advice that even brief bouts of activity are good.
"Ten minutes of exercise has at least an hour of effects on your body," says Gerszten, who found some of the metabolic changes that began after 10 minutes on the treadmill still were measurable 60 minutes after people cooled down.
Your heart rate rapidly drops back to normal when you quit moving, usually in 10 minutes or so. So finding lingering biochemical changes offers what Gerszten calls "tantalizing evidence" of how exercise may be building up longer-term benefits.
Back to the blood. Thinner people had greater increases in a metabolite named niacinamide, a nutrient byproduct that's involved in blood-sugar control, the team from Mass General and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard reported last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Checking a metabolite of fat breakdown, the team found people who were more fit - as measured by oxygen intake during exercise - appeared to be burning more fat than the less fit, or than people with shortness of breath, a possible symptom of heart disease.
The extremely fit - 25 Boston Marathon runners - had ten-fold increases in that metabolite after the race. Still other differences in metabolites allowed the researchers to tell which runners had finished in under four hours and which weren't as speedy.
"We have a chemical snapshot of what the more fit person looks like. Now we have to see if making someone's metabolism look like that snapshot, whether or not that's going to improve their performance," says Gerszten, whose ultimate goal is better cardiac care.
Don't expect a pill ever to substitute for a workout - the new work shows how complicated the body's response to exercise is, says metabolomics researcher Dr. Debbie Muoio of Duke University Medical Center.
But scientists are hunting nutritional compounds that might help tweak metabolic processes in specific ways. For example, Muoio discovered the muscles of diabetic animals lack enough of a metabolite named carnitine, and that feeding them more improved their control of blood sugar. Now, Muoio is beginning a pilot study in 25 older adults with pre-diabetes to see if carnitine supplements might work similarly in people who lack enough.
New research shows anger increases testosterone and decreases cortisol ?
When we get angry, the heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone production increases, cortisol (the stress hormone) decreases, and the left hemisphere of the brain becomes more stimulated. This is indicated by a new investigation lead by scientists from the University of Valencia (UV) that analyses the changes in the brain's cardiovascular, hormonal and asymmetric activation response when we get angry.
"Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine system. In addition, changes in cerebral activity also occur, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes", Neus Herrero, main author of the study and researcher at UV, explains to SINC.
The researchers induced anger in 30 men using the version that has been adapted to Spanish of the procedure "Anger Induction" (AI), consisting of 50 phrases in first person that reflect daily situations that provoke anger. Before and immediately after the inducement of anger they measured the heart rate and arterial tension, the levels of testosterone and cortisol, and the asymmetric activation of the brain (using the dichotic listening technique), the general state of mind and the subjective experience of the anger emotion.
The results, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior, reveal that anger provokes profound changes in the state of mind of the subjects ("they felt angered and had a more negative state of mind") and in different psychobiological parameters. There is an increase in heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone, but the cortisol level decreases.
"Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine system. In addition, changes in cerebral activity also occur, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes", Neus Herrero, main author of the study and researcher at UV, explains to SINC.
The researchers induced anger in 30 men using the version that has been adapted to Spanish of the procedure "Anger Induction" (AI), consisting of 50 phrases in first person that reflect daily situations that provoke anger. Before and immediately after the inducement of anger they measured the heart rate and arterial tension, the levels of testosterone and cortisol, and the asymmetric activation of the brain (using the dichotic listening technique), the general state of mind and the subjective experience of the anger emotion.
The results, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior, reveal that anger provokes profound changes in the state of mind of the subjects ("they felt angered and had a more negative state of mind") and in different psychobiological parameters. There is an increase in heart rate, arterial tension and testosterone, but the cortisol level decreases.
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