An East Brunswick man was arrested on drug charges Friday after he accepted a shipment of steroids worth $500 while at work in Somerset County, authorities said.
Todd Geoghan, 26, of Cypress Lane, was charged with third-degree drug possession and a disorderly persons offense for possession of a prescription legend drug, said Acting Somerset County Prosecutor A. Peter DeMarco Jr. Geoghan was released on his own recognizance.
The arrest followed a month-long investigation by the prosecutor’s Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force, Franklin police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Task force members received information from ICE officials at Newark Liberty International Airport and the U.S. Customs Border Protection Unit that they intercepted a package containing two types of steroids — Oxandrogen and Trenbolone Acetate — and generic Levitra that was being shipped to Geoghan, DeMarco said. The drugs came from Cyprus, the prosecutor said.
Authorities arranged for a controlled delivery of the package, and the items were sent to Geoghan’s place of employment in Franklin Township. When he accepted and opened the steroids package, task force members arrested him, DeMarco said.
President of Applied Pharmacy Services gets 10 years in prison for steroids conspiracy.
To defense attorneys, A. Samuel Kelley II was as a self-made entrepreneur who had started a number of businesses but who made mistakes navigating the complex regulations governing the pharmaceutical industry.
To prosecutors, he was a “kingpin” who sat atop a nationwide conspiracy, involving doctors and health clinics in several states, that was responsible for the sale of 2,465,701 dosage units of anabolic steroids from March 2003 until a federal raid on his business in August 2006.
Both sides agreed that Kelley, as president, chief executive officer and principal owner of Applied Pharmacy Services, reaped the largest share of the millions of dollars that flowed into the Mobile-based compounding pharmacy.
For U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade, that was enough to justify a 10-year sentence — by far, the longest handed down to any of the defendants so far. Earlier this month, she sentenced the chief pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy to four years in prison.
“The scope of the distribution of steroids outside the course of professional practice is just mind-boggling in this case,” Granade said Thursday.
Federal marshals handcuffed Kelley and hauled him off to prison immediately after the hearing as friends and relatives sobbed.
In addition to the prison sentence, the judge also fined Kelley $35,000 and ordered him to pay a $100 fee for each of the 130 counts that the jury found him guilty on in February, for a total of $13,000. Defense attorney Richard Jaffe said his client would appeal but otherwise declined to comment.
Since the trial, Kelley and his wife have lived in Lucedale, Miss., and have worked at a medical supply company that the defendant started in Mobile in 2007, according to court records.
Financial records maintained by Applied Pharmacy indicated that the company grossed $2.64 million from the steroids sales during period reviewed by federal investigators. Granade ordered Kelley — along with the other defendants — to pay that amount to the government.
Authorities have indicated the intend to go after a real estate leasing company that Kelley owns and the family’s home on Westchester Lane South in west Mobile to help satisfy the forfeiture order.
The business made Kelley a wealthy man, according to documents submitted this week by Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins showing that he earned $353,840 in salary from March 2003 until August 2006 and another $1.2 million in dividends.
Court records indicate that the steroids produced at Applied Pharmacy’s laboratory on International Drive near Bel Air Mall ended up in the hands of thousands of customers from all over the country.
Dobbins cited, but did not name, 24 who were professional athletes.
They represented sports ranging from baseball to bodybuilding to professional wrestling to mixed martial arts. “Sam Kelley ran the business,” Dobbins said. “He was responsible for every vial, every pill, every capsule that left there.”
Kelley said he made mistakes but never intended to break the law. “I started Applied Pharmacy with the best of intentions,” he said.
To prosecutors, he was a “kingpin” who sat atop a nationwide conspiracy, involving doctors and health clinics in several states, that was responsible for the sale of 2,465,701 dosage units of anabolic steroids from March 2003 until a federal raid on his business in August 2006.
Both sides agreed that Kelley, as president, chief executive officer and principal owner of Applied Pharmacy Services, reaped the largest share of the millions of dollars that flowed into the Mobile-based compounding pharmacy.
For U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade, that was enough to justify a 10-year sentence — by far, the longest handed down to any of the defendants so far. Earlier this month, she sentenced the chief pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy to four years in prison.
“The scope of the distribution of steroids outside the course of professional practice is just mind-boggling in this case,” Granade said Thursday.
Federal marshals handcuffed Kelley and hauled him off to prison immediately after the hearing as friends and relatives sobbed.
In addition to the prison sentence, the judge also fined Kelley $35,000 and ordered him to pay a $100 fee for each of the 130 counts that the jury found him guilty on in February, for a total of $13,000. Defense attorney Richard Jaffe said his client would appeal but otherwise declined to comment.
Since the trial, Kelley and his wife have lived in Lucedale, Miss., and have worked at a medical supply company that the defendant started in Mobile in 2007, according to court records.
Financial records maintained by Applied Pharmacy indicated that the company grossed $2.64 million from the steroids sales during period reviewed by federal investigators. Granade ordered Kelley — along with the other defendants — to pay that amount to the government.
Authorities have indicated the intend to go after a real estate leasing company that Kelley owns and the family’s home on Westchester Lane South in west Mobile to help satisfy the forfeiture order.
The business made Kelley a wealthy man, according to documents submitted this week by Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins showing that he earned $353,840 in salary from March 2003 until August 2006 and another $1.2 million in dividends.
Court records indicate that the steroids produced at Applied Pharmacy’s laboratory on International Drive near Bel Air Mall ended up in the hands of thousands of customers from all over the country.
Dobbins cited, but did not name, 24 who were professional athletes.
They represented sports ranging from baseball to bodybuilding to professional wrestling to mixed martial arts. “Sam Kelley ran the business,” Dobbins said. “He was responsible for every vial, every pill, every capsule that left there.”
Kelley said he made mistakes but never intended to break the law. “I started Applied Pharmacy with the best of intentions,” he said.
Possibly the world's biggest steroid counterfeiter busted in Russia.
( This was the guy behind British Dragon's copycat company registered in Hongkong and the infamous Steroid. Ru forums in Russia. My apologies for the poor translation )
Capital [narkopolitseyskie] arrested the organizer of large criminal group, which was occupied by the deliveries of the forbidden anabolics. [Kontrafaktnye] preparations dangerous for the health yearly brought to spreaders millions of dollars. In order to leave to the track of the leader of the steroid Mafia, several years were required operatives. [Narkopolitsiya] grasped Russian [kulturistov] for the living.
Immediately 300 kilograms of anabolic steroids are withdrawn in the criminal group, which supplied with dangerous chemistry almost of all worshippers of [bodibildinga] in Russia. In the transfer into the muscular mass of [kulturisty] they were missed several tons of biceps, triceps and buttock muscles. But the steroid Mafia lost 5 million dollars in clean profit. All withdrawn proved to be forgery. "
[Kontrafakt] of the cleanest water. This was produced at the underground factories either in China or in [Moldove]. [Kontrafakt] it cost absolute kopecks. Cheap [syre] is reached from China, all this is packed up at the factory, labels generally stick in Moscow on detachable [kvartirakh]" , tells chief of a service on the control of legal drug trafficking of Moscow administration [FSKN] of Russia Ivan [Elisavetchenko].
Steroids - synthetic sexual hormones, relate to the strong substances strictly of calculation. According to the law can appoint them only doctor and only to patient. [Bodibildery] for the growth of muscles eat with their bundles, voluntarily sentencing themselves to the incurable defeats of the liver, kidneys and nervous system. " Especially this painfully for the young, growing organism, when normal sexual hormones are substituted by synthetic analogs. As a result organism can forget about the fact that there are normal man sexual hormones, and appears a number of the diseases, connected with the predominance of female sexual hormones - such as gynecomastia, obesity on the female of [tipu]" , explains the rector of the Moscow State University of food productions Dmitriy [Edelev]. In the office of chief of a service on the control of legal drug trafficking - pinned to the wall portraits of the leaders of the steroid Mafia, club trainers, athletes.
Among them - " the king of [anabolikov]" Dmitriy Kolomoytsev, quite important wholesaler, when or fallen in the network of [narkopolitsii]. Personnel of operational survey. Search on its out-of-town villa. Royal motor park: 600- y of " [Mersedes]" , " Mini -[Kuper]" , " [Lambordzhini]" orange color. " This personality is sufficiently offensive. In its sport medium they know practically everything, and all were assured that its no one will detain never - already painfully it large figure with the sufficiently extensive connections. Sale it achieved practically throughout the entire territory of Russia - by messages both through the post sendings and on the iron of [doroge]" , notes Ivan [Elisavetchenko].
Hunting for The [kolomoytsevym] went several years. The fact that itself it especially and did not hide with. Its site in the Internet, where it based on the example of its own body advertises new steroid potion, is accessible, here are articles over the signature Of [kolomoytseva] - interview with the athletes and at the end the program of the method of preparations. However, itself it never the goods even touched.
Personnel of external observation. Secret encounters Of [kolomoytseva] - it on the black of " [Mersedese]" - with the messengers and the wholesalers they occurred on the stands of supermarkets, the bus stops, in other populous places. Its [podelniki] constantly were checked against the presence of shadowing, every week changed the numbers of telephones. Moreover - the base layer of [gosnomera] in the machine of messenger says: " [narkokontrol]". "
Comrade completely managed the methods of operational- search activity, he knew, as which is done. They detained it, only when they already completely gathered entire demonstrative base, they conducted several operational experiments, and they detained it at the output from [fitnes]-[kluba]" , continues Ivan [Elisavetchenko].
According to article 234 criminal of codes - the illegal sale of the strong substances - To [kolomoytsevu] and to the members of his group it threatens of up to 10 years of the deprivation of freedom. However, piously place emptily is not. When this subject was prepared for ether, in the conductor of train Kharkov- Moscow was withdrawn the roll from 3-[mya] by the kilograms of anabolic steroids. The steroid Mafia searches for the new channels of the delivery of potion into Russia.
Capital [narkopolitseyskie] arrested the organizer of large criminal group, which was occupied by the deliveries of the forbidden anabolics. [Kontrafaktnye] preparations dangerous for the health yearly brought to spreaders millions of dollars. In order to leave to the track of the leader of the steroid Mafia, several years were required operatives. [Narkopolitsiya] grasped Russian [kulturistov] for the living.
Immediately 300 kilograms of anabolic steroids are withdrawn in the criminal group, which supplied with dangerous chemistry almost of all worshippers of [bodibildinga] in Russia. In the transfer into the muscular mass of [kulturisty] they were missed several tons of biceps, triceps and buttock muscles. But the steroid Mafia lost 5 million dollars in clean profit. All withdrawn proved to be forgery. "
[Kontrafakt] of the cleanest water. This was produced at the underground factories either in China or in [Moldove]. [Kontrafakt] it cost absolute kopecks. Cheap [syre] is reached from China, all this is packed up at the factory, labels generally stick in Moscow on detachable [kvartirakh]" , tells chief of a service on the control of legal drug trafficking of Moscow administration [FSKN] of Russia Ivan [Elisavetchenko].
Steroids - synthetic sexual hormones, relate to the strong substances strictly of calculation. According to the law can appoint them only doctor and only to patient. [Bodibildery] for the growth of muscles eat with their bundles, voluntarily sentencing themselves to the incurable defeats of the liver, kidneys and nervous system. " Especially this painfully for the young, growing organism, when normal sexual hormones are substituted by synthetic analogs. As a result organism can forget about the fact that there are normal man sexual hormones, and appears a number of the diseases, connected with the predominance of female sexual hormones - such as gynecomastia, obesity on the female of [tipu]" , explains the rector of the Moscow State University of food productions Dmitriy [Edelev]. In the office of chief of a service on the control of legal drug trafficking - pinned to the wall portraits of the leaders of the steroid Mafia, club trainers, athletes.
Among them - " the king of [anabolikov]" Dmitriy Kolomoytsev, quite important wholesaler, when or fallen in the network of [narkopolitsii]. Personnel of operational survey. Search on its out-of-town villa. Royal motor park: 600- y of " [Mersedes]" , " Mini -[Kuper]" , " [Lambordzhini]" orange color. " This personality is sufficiently offensive. In its sport medium they know practically everything, and all were assured that its no one will detain never - already painfully it large figure with the sufficiently extensive connections. Sale it achieved practically throughout the entire territory of Russia - by messages both through the post sendings and on the iron of [doroge]" , notes Ivan [Elisavetchenko].
Hunting for The [kolomoytsevym] went several years. The fact that itself it especially and did not hide with. Its site in the Internet, where it based on the example of its own body advertises new steroid potion, is accessible, here are articles over the signature Of [kolomoytseva] - interview with the athletes and at the end the program of the method of preparations. However, itself it never the goods even touched.
Personnel of external observation. Secret encounters Of [kolomoytseva] - it on the black of " [Mersedese]" - with the messengers and the wholesalers they occurred on the stands of supermarkets, the bus stops, in other populous places. Its [podelniki] constantly were checked against the presence of shadowing, every week changed the numbers of telephones. Moreover - the base layer of [gosnomera] in the machine of messenger says: " [narkokontrol]". "
Comrade completely managed the methods of operational- search activity, he knew, as which is done. They detained it, only when they already completely gathered entire demonstrative base, they conducted several operational experiments, and they detained it at the output from [fitnes]-[kluba]" , continues Ivan [Elisavetchenko].
According to article 234 criminal of codes - the illegal sale of the strong substances - To [kolomoytsevu] and to the members of his group it threatens of up to 10 years of the deprivation of freedom. However, piously place emptily is not. When this subject was prepared for ether, in the conductor of train Kharkov- Moscow was withdrawn the roll from 3-[mya] by the kilograms of anabolic steroids. The steroid Mafia searches for the new channels of the delivery of potion into Russia.
Paw Paw gym owner gets probation thanks to testimony against acops.
A Paw Paw gym owner who pleaded guilty in June to a felony drug charge in connection with a steroids probe has been sentenced to probation and community service, authorities said.
Aaron J. Diprima, 33, who was charged with one count of possession of an analogue, was sentenced Monday in Van Buren County Circuit Court to one year of probation, 60 hours of community service and court costs, Kalamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein said. Klein said Diprima was sentenced under section 7411 of the Michigan Public Health Code and that if he successfully completes the terms of his probation, the drug charge will be removed from his record.
As part of his plea agreement in June, Diprima agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify 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, who was terminated May 19 from his job with the Paw Paw Department, is charged with possession of Fluoxymesterone, a two-year felony.
Aaron J. Diprima, 33, who was charged with one count of possession of an analogue, was sentenced Monday in Van Buren County Circuit Court to one year of probation, 60 hours of community service and court costs, Kalamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein said. Klein said Diprima was sentenced under section 7411 of the Michigan Public Health Code and that if he successfully completes the terms of his probation, the drug charge will be removed from his record.
As part of his plea agreement in June, Diprima agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify 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, who was terminated May 19 from his job with the Paw Paw Department, is charged with possession of Fluoxymesterone, a two-year felony.
Pakistan bans seven athletes for doping.
Pakistan has banned seven top athletes for two years over doping offences just two months ahead of the Commonwealth Games, an official said on Monday.
The athletes tested positive for banned steroids at the national championships last month. They were named as javelin thrower Mohammad Imran, shot putter Mohammad Waseem, high jumper Rozina Shafqat, sprinter Nadia Nazir, distance runner Shagufta Naureen, pole vaulter Zahra Razzak and 200-metre specialist Asif Javed.
Pakistan Athletics Federation (PAF) secretary Khalid Mahmood said the athletes were entitled to appeal. 'All the athletes failed dope tests and it's disappointing for us,' Mr Mahmood told AFP.
'I won't say they were medal prospects in the Commonwealth Games or in the Asian Games but the case hurts Pakistan's image,' he said.
Only Imran was due to participate in the Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held in New Delhi from October 3 to 14. He will now be replaced.
The latest bans come a month after the PAF banned female sprinters Sadaf Siddique and Javeria Hassan for two years on doping offenses.
The athletes tested positive for banned steroids at the national championships last month. They were named as javelin thrower Mohammad Imran, shot putter Mohammad Waseem, high jumper Rozina Shafqat, sprinter Nadia Nazir, distance runner Shagufta Naureen, pole vaulter Zahra Razzak and 200-metre specialist Asif Javed.
Pakistan Athletics Federation (PAF) secretary Khalid Mahmood said the athletes were entitled to appeal. 'All the athletes failed dope tests and it's disappointing for us,' Mr Mahmood told AFP.
'I won't say they were medal prospects in the Commonwealth Games or in the Asian Games but the case hurts Pakistan's image,' he said.
Only Imran was due to participate in the Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held in New Delhi from October 3 to 14. He will now be replaced.
The latest bans come a month after the PAF banned female sprinters Sadaf Siddique and Javeria Hassan for two years on doping offenses.
Future bodybuilding drug ACE-031 coming soon thanks to FDA Orphan Designation.
ACE-031 is an investigational protein therapeutic that builds muscle and increases strength by inhibiting signaling through a cell surface receptor called activin receptor type IIB (ActRIIB). ACE-031 is a recombinant fusion protein that is produced by joining a portion of the human ActRIIB receptor to a portion of a human antibody. This creates a freely circulating, decoy version of ActRIIB which removes proteins, such as GDF-8 (myostatin), that limit the growth and regeneration of muscle. Animal studies with ACE-031 suggest that blocking signaling through ActRIIB leads to increased muscle mass and improved physical function in a range of animal models of muscle disease, including models of muscular dystrophy. ACE-031 is currently being studied in a phase 2 clinical trial of patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) who are also receiving corticosteroid therapy.
Operation Roid Runner phase 2 arrests announced.
"Operation Roid Runner" started in 2009 and Pa. officials are announcing more arrests today.
Narcotics agents from the Attorney General's Office have filed criminal charges against six suspects connected to the use and distribution of steroids in the Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton County areas. These charges are a result of the second phase of an ongoing steroid manufacturing and trafficking investigation, known as Operation Roid Runner. The first phase of the investigation, dubbed "Operation Roid Runner" when it was first announced in November, focused on a group allegedly responsible for bringing more than $170,000 worth of steroids from China and Mexico into Pennsylvania. Ten people were arrested in connection with "Operation Roid Runner" in November.
"Following those initial arrests, our agents continued to develop the evidence to identify more individuals who were allegedly obtaining steroids and distributing them to others for resale and personal use," Corbett said. A grand jury heard testimony and saw evidence, leading to today's charges.
Corbett said that both Frank Peters, of Ambler, and Brian Chamberlain, of West Chester, allegedly obtained steroids for use and resale in Pennsylvania by placing orders on the internet to various individuals in China, Hungary and Pakistan. The international suppliers were paid via wire transfers.
According to the grand jury, Peters sent nine wire transfers overseas, totaling $8,500, between February 2009 to February 2010. Chamberlain sent 13 wire transfers overseas over a one-year period, totaling almost $10,000.
Corbett said that Peters' girlfriend, Angela Girondo ,of Ambler, allegedly worked with Peters to distribute steroids in Chester County, delivering up to 19 bottles at a time.
The investigation also revealed that Edward Moyzan, of Trexlertown, was distributing steroids in Lehigh County and that Craig Johnson, of Allentown, allegedly brokered some of Moyzan's sales for him.
Corbett said that Moyzan allegedly obtained steroids from Brian Potance, of Easton. Moyzan allegedly bought five to 10 bottles at a time, many times meeting at a restaurant in Bethlehem to make the transactions.
Corbett noted that as part of the second phase of the investigation, agents seized nearly 300 bottles of steroids and more than 2,300 pills containing steroids.
The defendants will be preliminarily arraigned before Lehigh County Magisterial District Judge Donna Butler and will be prosecuted in Lehigh County by Senior Deputy Attorney General Heather Adams of the Attorney General's Drug Strike Force Section.
Below is a full list of the defendants and the charges against them:
Craig Johnson, 39, 3102 Lehigh St., Allentown, is charged with one count of criminal conspiracy.
Edward Moyzan, 37, 207 Turning Leaf, Trexlertown, is charged with three counts of delivery of a controlled substance and one count of criminal conspiracy.
Brian Potance, 26, 606 Berks St., Easton, is charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance. He is a former corrections officer at Northampton County Prison.
Brian Chamberlain, 35, 49 Sheffield Lane, West Chester, is charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.
Frank Peters, 34, 97 Hampstead Drive, Ambler, is charged with six counts of delivery of a controlled substance, one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, one count of criminal conspiracy and one count of dealing in proceeds of an unlawful activity.
Angela Girondo, 50, 97 Hampstead Drive, Ambler, is charged with four counts of delivery of a controlled substance, one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count of criminal conspiracy.
Corbett thanked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations for their assistance in the investigation. Corbett noted that the investigation is ongoing.
Narcotics agents from the Attorney General's Office have filed criminal charges against six suspects connected to the use and distribution of steroids in the Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton County areas. These charges are a result of the second phase of an ongoing steroid manufacturing and trafficking investigation, known as Operation Roid Runner. The first phase of the investigation, dubbed "Operation Roid Runner" when it was first announced in November, focused on a group allegedly responsible for bringing more than $170,000 worth of steroids from China and Mexico into Pennsylvania. Ten people were arrested in connection with "Operation Roid Runner" in November.
"Following those initial arrests, our agents continued to develop the evidence to identify more individuals who were allegedly obtaining steroids and distributing them to others for resale and personal use," Corbett said. A grand jury heard testimony and saw evidence, leading to today's charges.
Corbett said that both Frank Peters, of Ambler, and Brian Chamberlain, of West Chester, allegedly obtained steroids for use and resale in Pennsylvania by placing orders on the internet to various individuals in China, Hungary and Pakistan. The international suppliers were paid via wire transfers.
According to the grand jury, Peters sent nine wire transfers overseas, totaling $8,500, between February 2009 to February 2010. Chamberlain sent 13 wire transfers overseas over a one-year period, totaling almost $10,000.
Corbett said that Peters' girlfriend, Angela Girondo ,of Ambler, allegedly worked with Peters to distribute steroids in Chester County, delivering up to 19 bottles at a time.
The investigation also revealed that Edward Moyzan, of Trexlertown, was distributing steroids in Lehigh County and that Craig Johnson, of Allentown, allegedly brokered some of Moyzan's sales for him.
Corbett said that Moyzan allegedly obtained steroids from Brian Potance, of Easton. Moyzan allegedly bought five to 10 bottles at a time, many times meeting at a restaurant in Bethlehem to make the transactions.
Corbett noted that as part of the second phase of the investigation, agents seized nearly 300 bottles of steroids and more than 2,300 pills containing steroids.
The defendants will be preliminarily arraigned before Lehigh County Magisterial District Judge Donna Butler and will be prosecuted in Lehigh County by Senior Deputy Attorney General Heather Adams of the Attorney General's Drug Strike Force Section.
Below is a full list of the defendants and the charges against them:
Craig Johnson, 39, 3102 Lehigh St., Allentown, is charged with one count of criminal conspiracy.
Edward Moyzan, 37, 207 Turning Leaf, Trexlertown, is charged with three counts of delivery of a controlled substance and one count of criminal conspiracy.
Brian Potance, 26, 606 Berks St., Easton, is charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance. He is a former corrections officer at Northampton County Prison.
Brian Chamberlain, 35, 49 Sheffield Lane, West Chester, is charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.
Frank Peters, 34, 97 Hampstead Drive, Ambler, is charged with six counts of delivery of a controlled substance, one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, one count of criminal conspiracy and one count of dealing in proceeds of an unlawful activity.
Angela Girondo, 50, 97 Hampstead Drive, Ambler, is charged with four counts of delivery of a controlled substance, one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count of criminal conspiracy.
Corbett thanked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations for their assistance in the investigation. Corbett noted that the investigation is ongoing.
Jersey juicehead busted with private plane full of nose candy and steroids.
( the suspected anabolic steroids might be steroid powders, I expect some pictures will appear in the press in the next day or two)
A New Jersey man was arrested Thursday for allegedly smuggling drugs from Mexico through Missouri, the Maries County Sheriff's Office said.
A New Jersey man was arrested Thursday for allegedly smuggling drugs from Mexico through Missouri, the Maries County Sheriff's Office said.
According to Maries County Sheriff Chris Heitman, the Department of Homeland Security tipped off local authorities about a plane carrying cocaine at the Rolla Airport. Deputies went to the airport and located several hundred thousand dollars worth of suspected cocaine, as well as a large amount of suspected illegal steroids.
Police arrested Kyle S. Stanley and placed him in the Maries County Jail until he can be transferred to a federal facility in the St. Louis area.
Investigators believe the drugs were smuggled in from Mexico.
Last member of Russian HGH robbery gang now on trial for 2001 murder.
Nearly 9 years later, a suspect has returned to Arizona to finally be tried in connection to the kidnapping and murder of a police informant in Phoenix.
Police say that Mikhail Drachev was part of a Russian crime cell plotting to steal a shipment of human growth hormone. One of the heist recruits turned on the cell and became a police informant -- which ultimately led to his murder.
21-year-old Konstantin Simberg went missing on Dec. 14, 2001. He was on the phone with an undercover Phoenix police detective when he was kidnapped -- his body found two days later in Fossil Creek, Ariz.
Cell phone records led detectives to three suspects -- Mikhail Drachev, Dennis Tskoukanov and Chris Andrews. Tskoukanov and Andrews were both tried and convicted for their role in the murder -- while Drachev has been on the run ever since.
Police say that Mikhail Drachev was part of a Russian crime cell plotting to steal a shipment of human growth hormone. One of the heist recruits turned on the cell and became a police informant -- which ultimately led to his murder.
21-year-old Konstantin Simberg went missing on Dec. 14, 2001. He was on the phone with an undercover Phoenix police detective when he was kidnapped -- his body found two days later in Fossil Creek, Ariz.
Cell phone records led detectives to three suspects -- Mikhail Drachev, Dennis Tskoukanov and Chris Andrews. Tskoukanov and Andrews were both tried and convicted for their role in the murder -- while Drachev has been on the run ever since.
Scientists prove muscle memory exists ?
Pumping up is easier for people who have been buff before, and now scientists think they know why — muscles retain a memory of their former fitness even as they wither from lack of use.
That memory is stored as DNA-containing nuclei, which proliferate when a muscle is exercised. Contrary to previous thinking, those nuclei aren’t lost when muscles atrophy, researchers report online August 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The extra nuclei form a type of muscle memory that allows the muscle to bounce back quickly when retrained.
The findings suggest that exercise early in life could help fend off frailness in the elderly, and also raise questions about how long doping athletes should be banned from competition, says study leader Kristian Gundersen, a physiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Muscle cells are huge, Gundersen says. And because the cells are so big, more than one nucleus is needed to supply the DNA templates for making large amounts of the proteins that give muscle its strength. Previous research has demonstrated that with exercise, muscle cells get even bigger by merging with stem cells called satellite cells, which are nestled between muscle fiber cells. Researchers had previously thought that when muscles atrophy, the extra nuclei are killed by a cell death program called apoptosis.
In the new study, Gundersen’s team simulated the effect of working out by making a muscle that helps lift the toes work harder in mice. As the muscle worked, the number of nuclei increased, starting on day six. Over the course of 21 days, the hard-working muscle increased the number of nuclei in each fiber cell by about 54 percent. Starting on day nine, the muscle cells also started to plump up, adding an extra 35 percent to their volume. Those results indicate that the nuclei come first and muscle mass is added later.
In another set of experiments, the researchers worked the mice’s muscles for two weeks and then severed nerves leading to the muscle so the tissue would atrophy. As the muscle atrophied, the cells deflated to about 40 percent of their bulked-up volume, but the number of nuclei in the cells did not change.
These results contradict previous studies that show lots of cell death in muscles during atrophy. Gunderson’s team examined individual cells in the wasting muscles and found that there is apoptosis going on, but that other cells are dying, not the muscle fibers or their extra nuclei. The extra nuclei stick around for at least three months — a long time for a mouse, which lives a couple of years on average, Gundersen says.
“I don’t know if it lasts forever,” he says, “but it seems to be a very long-lasting effect.” Since the extra nuclei don’t die, they could be poised to make muscle proteins again, providing a type of muscle memory, he says.
“That’s fascinating thinking, and there’s nice proof in this article to support it,” says Bengt Saltin, a muscle physiologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. “It’s really novel and helps to explain descriptive findings that muscles are quick to respond upon further training.”
The study is likely to provoke strong reaction from some researchers, says Lawrence Schwartz, a cell biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“It does fly in the face of a lot of peer-reviewed, published data,” he says. But the selective death of just some of the nuclei in a muscle cell would require a special kind of apoptosis. “The conventional wisdom doesn’t make much sense from a cell and molecular perspective,” Schwartz says. Gunderson’s group has come up with an explanation that seems more plausible. “Their data just feels right.”
If the results hold up in people, sports agencies may want to reconsider how long they ban athletes suspended for taking steroids. Previous research has shown that testosterone boosts the number of nuclei in muscle cells beyond the amount produced by working out. “If you have nuclei that last forever, then you would also have an advantage that could last forever,” Gundersen says.
Well, maybe not exactly forever. As people age, their ability to build muscle mass declines. The new study suggests that pumping muscles full of nuclei early in life could help stave off muscle loss with age. “This could be an argument for mandatory physical training in schools,” Saltin says.
That memory is stored as DNA-containing nuclei, which proliferate when a muscle is exercised. Contrary to previous thinking, those nuclei aren’t lost when muscles atrophy, researchers report online August 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The extra nuclei form a type of muscle memory that allows the muscle to bounce back quickly when retrained.
The findings suggest that exercise early in life could help fend off frailness in the elderly, and also raise questions about how long doping athletes should be banned from competition, says study leader Kristian Gundersen, a physiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Muscle cells are huge, Gundersen says. And because the cells are so big, more than one nucleus is needed to supply the DNA templates for making large amounts of the proteins that give muscle its strength. Previous research has demonstrated that with exercise, muscle cells get even bigger by merging with stem cells called satellite cells, which are nestled between muscle fiber cells. Researchers had previously thought that when muscles atrophy, the extra nuclei are killed by a cell death program called apoptosis.
In the new study, Gundersen’s team simulated the effect of working out by making a muscle that helps lift the toes work harder in mice. As the muscle worked, the number of nuclei increased, starting on day six. Over the course of 21 days, the hard-working muscle increased the number of nuclei in each fiber cell by about 54 percent. Starting on day nine, the muscle cells also started to plump up, adding an extra 35 percent to their volume. Those results indicate that the nuclei come first and muscle mass is added later.
In another set of experiments, the researchers worked the mice’s muscles for two weeks and then severed nerves leading to the muscle so the tissue would atrophy. As the muscle atrophied, the cells deflated to about 40 percent of their bulked-up volume, but the number of nuclei in the cells did not change.
These results contradict previous studies that show lots of cell death in muscles during atrophy. Gunderson’s team examined individual cells in the wasting muscles and found that there is apoptosis going on, but that other cells are dying, not the muscle fibers or their extra nuclei. The extra nuclei stick around for at least three months — a long time for a mouse, which lives a couple of years on average, Gundersen says.
“I don’t know if it lasts forever,” he says, “but it seems to be a very long-lasting effect.” Since the extra nuclei don’t die, they could be poised to make muscle proteins again, providing a type of muscle memory, he says.
“That’s fascinating thinking, and there’s nice proof in this article to support it,” says Bengt Saltin, a muscle physiologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. “It’s really novel and helps to explain descriptive findings that muscles are quick to respond upon further training.”
The study is likely to provoke strong reaction from some researchers, says Lawrence Schwartz, a cell biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“It does fly in the face of a lot of peer-reviewed, published data,” he says. But the selective death of just some of the nuclei in a muscle cell would require a special kind of apoptosis. “The conventional wisdom doesn’t make much sense from a cell and molecular perspective,” Schwartz says. Gunderson’s group has come up with an explanation that seems more plausible. “Their data just feels right.”
If the results hold up in people, sports agencies may want to reconsider how long they ban athletes suspended for taking steroids. Previous research has shown that testosterone boosts the number of nuclei in muscle cells beyond the amount produced by working out. “If you have nuclei that last forever, then you would also have an advantage that could last forever,” Gundersen says.
Well, maybe not exactly forever. As people age, their ability to build muscle mass declines. The new study suggests that pumping muscles full of nuclei early in life could help stave off muscle loss with age. “This could be an argument for mandatory physical training in schools,” Saltin says.
Interesting ( new ? ) quote from Stallone.
"HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing," Stallone said. "Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed. Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words: In 10 years it will be over-the-counter."
The quote was from a newspaper interview and not the training video above which I have included to show what HGH, Testosterone and a good diet can do for a man in his sixties :-)
WADA chief attacks MLB testing program.
World Anti-Doping Agency chief John Fahey said Monday that Major League Baseball is “misleading” the public by its continued refusal to institute a transparent and rigorous drug testing program.
Fahey said the integrity of the game will eventually be called into question and fans will show their disapproval by refusing to attend games. WADA has repeatedly criticized MLB for what it considers inadequate testing.
“Ultimately, I think the integrity of sport will come into question and in that context they have to think about the future of their game,” Fahey said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“The public doesn’t like to be taken for a ride and they will march accordingly,” Fahey said. “If you say come to the contest, am I going to watch who has the best chemist? You don’t go to watch that.” ( IMHO he's wrong baseball fans want to watch an exciting game and don't care if players are using steroids or HGH )
Fahey said the integrity of the game will eventually be called into question and fans will show their disapproval by refusing to attend games. WADA has repeatedly criticized MLB for what it considers inadequate testing.
“Ultimately, I think the integrity of sport will come into question and in that context they have to think about the future of their game,” Fahey said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“The public doesn’t like to be taken for a ride and they will march accordingly,” Fahey said. “If you say come to the contest, am I going to watch who has the best chemist? You don’t go to watch that.” ( IMHO he's wrong baseball fans want to watch an exciting game and don't care if players are using steroids or HGH )
The motel room UG steroid lab operator indicted.
A 22-year-old Corinth man who police said possessed nearly $100,000 worth of steroids when he was arrested in April was indicted on six criminal charges on Monday in Saratoga County Court.
Joshua B. Arnold, of 231 Main St., was indicted by a grand jury on three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, felonies that carry a maximum penalty of up to 7 years in prison.
He was also indicted on three misdemeanor charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to the Saratoga County District Attorney's Office.
Police said they found Arnold in possession of chemicals and equipment used to make steroids during a search of a hotel room he was renting in Saratoga Springs. The drugs in his possession were worth as much as $100,000, authorities said at the time.
Arnold is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges at 9 a.m. on Aug. 23 in Saratoga County Court.
More child steroids usage claims this time from South Africa.
( If anyone has any real evidence of junior juicers I would like to see it, I'm still of the opinion that this is all made up by the media and the anti-steroids lobby ).
Growing numbers of Eastern Cape school sports stars are taking extreme and potentially deadly measures to gain a competitive edge, which in turn is leading to a dramatic increase in severe post- match injuries.
Children as young as 13 are turning to dangerous steroids and other unorthodox methods to “bulk up”, so they may become “bigger and better” than their peers and opponents.
Port Elizabeth sports physician Dr Konrad von Hagen, who works with the provincial rugby side and has accompanied the Proteas on tour, said the pressure among young sportsmen was immense.
“I had a parent of a 15-year-old high jumper come to me recently asking me to inject her child with a growth hormone to improve his high jumping skills. I refused, but this is the kind of pressure children are dealing with,” Von Hagen said.
Bay bodybuilder and personal trainer Charles Whiteley said he was seeing many teens taking steroids and other growth hormones.
Whiteley said he was recently approached by a 13-year-old for these substances, and also that a top Bay high school rugby coach had admitted to him that he would be giving his own children, who also play this sport, these substances as soon as they reached the age of 14.
Both Von Hagen and Whiteley warned that these measures were not only dangerous to the users, but also to their opponents who did not use the substances. “They make you so aggressive – and a lot bigger – than your peers. If you had to tackle someone in, say, a rugby match, you could seriously injure that person,” said Whiteley.
Von Hagen has also seen an increase in young players experiencing concussions during matches, with some then ignoring their head injuries to continue playing the sport. In some cases continuous concussions had led to severe cognitive deterioration.
Von Hagen said the only time anyone should push through an injury was “during a World Cup final – no youngster should play any sport with any injury”.
He had noticed a dramatic increase in teens taking steroids and other supplements to give them a competitive edge. Many were unaware steroids had adverse effects, especially when used by youngsters, and these could include anything from heart problems to future infertility.
Whiteley said steroids and other growth hormones could cause muscles to grow stronger than the tendons, causing the tendons to snap.
Supporting the habit was very expensive, he said: “You can pay from R1000 to R4000 per month.”
He added that substance abuse of this nature was more prevalent in schools where sport was an integral part of the school’s heritage.
He admitted he himself had fallen victim to steroids when he was younger and felt lucky to have survived the experience. “Kids don’t know how dangerous they are.”
Von Hagen said pressure from parents, schools and peers all led to premature weight workouts by pupils in the gym. “The kids are going too ‘big’ too soon.” Using heavy weights at too young an age could stunt youngsters’ growth.”
Kyle Barton, a biokineticist who started the Pearson Sport Science Institute and manages the conditioning of high school athletes, has also seen a “progressive increase” in teens participating in excessive gym or fitness routines. “I’ve heard of more and more youngsters using and abusing substances or supplements to improve performance and, in some cases, I’ve seen it.”
Three major aspects drove youngsters to go to these extremes, he said. These were commercial sources like magazines, TV, ads and movies; environment and peer pressure, which drove young athletes to “do what is needed to get into the team”; and pressure from parents.
Growing numbers of Eastern Cape school sports stars are taking extreme and potentially deadly measures to gain a competitive edge, which in turn is leading to a dramatic increase in severe post- match injuries.
Children as young as 13 are turning to dangerous steroids and other unorthodox methods to “bulk up”, so they may become “bigger and better” than their peers and opponents.
Port Elizabeth sports physician Dr Konrad von Hagen, who works with the provincial rugby side and has accompanied the Proteas on tour, said the pressure among young sportsmen was immense.
“I had a parent of a 15-year-old high jumper come to me recently asking me to inject her child with a growth hormone to improve his high jumping skills. I refused, but this is the kind of pressure children are dealing with,” Von Hagen said.
Bay bodybuilder and personal trainer Charles Whiteley said he was seeing many teens taking steroids and other growth hormones.
Whiteley said he was recently approached by a 13-year-old for these substances, and also that a top Bay high school rugby coach had admitted to him that he would be giving his own children, who also play this sport, these substances as soon as they reached the age of 14.
Both Von Hagen and Whiteley warned that these measures were not only dangerous to the users, but also to their opponents who did not use the substances. “They make you so aggressive – and a lot bigger – than your peers. If you had to tackle someone in, say, a rugby match, you could seriously injure that person,” said Whiteley.
Von Hagen has also seen an increase in young players experiencing concussions during matches, with some then ignoring their head injuries to continue playing the sport. In some cases continuous concussions had led to severe cognitive deterioration.
Von Hagen said the only time anyone should push through an injury was “during a World Cup final – no youngster should play any sport with any injury”.
He had noticed a dramatic increase in teens taking steroids and other supplements to give them a competitive edge. Many were unaware steroids had adverse effects, especially when used by youngsters, and these could include anything from heart problems to future infertility.
Whiteley said steroids and other growth hormones could cause muscles to grow stronger than the tendons, causing the tendons to snap.
Supporting the habit was very expensive, he said: “You can pay from R1000 to R4000 per month.”
He added that substance abuse of this nature was more prevalent in schools where sport was an integral part of the school’s heritage.
He admitted he himself had fallen victim to steroids when he was younger and felt lucky to have survived the experience. “Kids don’t know how dangerous they are.”
Von Hagen said pressure from parents, schools and peers all led to premature weight workouts by pupils in the gym. “The kids are going too ‘big’ too soon.” Using heavy weights at too young an age could stunt youngsters’ growth.”
Kyle Barton, a biokineticist who started the Pearson Sport Science Institute and manages the conditioning of high school athletes, has also seen a “progressive increase” in teens participating in excessive gym or fitness routines. “I’ve heard of more and more youngsters using and abusing substances or supplements to improve performance and, in some cases, I’ve seen it.”
Three major aspects drove youngsters to go to these extremes, he said. These were commercial sources like magazines, TV, ads and movies; environment and peer pressure, which drove young athletes to “do what is needed to get into the team”; and pressure from parents.
What are pro bodybuilders & wrestlers taking ?
This list was released during the Applied Pharmacy Services trial. ( the full names were released in a seperate (sealed?) document but appear not to have been published by the press so far. ) Sadly no details on the exact quantities they were ordering or their HGH and ancillary usage.
First person sentenced in Mobile steroid conspiracy case.
A pharmacist convicted of participating in a nationwide conspiracy to illegally sell anabolic steroids made in Mobile has been sentenced to four years in prison.
J. Michael Bennett, who was the supervising pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services, was the first to be sentenced from a group of five found guilty after a five-week trial earlier this year.
Authorities had alleged that pharmacists at APS illegally dispensed steroids and other drugs to doctors and steroid dealers between 2003 and 2006 in Arizona, California, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, South Carolina, Florida and elsewhere.
Prosecutors called 44-year-old Bennett and the others "drug dealers in lab coats."
J. Michael Bennett, who was the supervising pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services, was the first to be sentenced from a group of five found guilty after a five-week trial earlier this year.
Authorities had alleged that pharmacists at APS illegally dispensed steroids and other drugs to doctors and steroid dealers between 2003 and 2006 in Arizona, California, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, South Carolina, Florida and elsewhere.
Prosecutors called 44-year-old Bennett and the others "drug dealers in lab coats."
Domestic source in Albuquerque busted during cattle implant brewing session.
Albuquerque Drug Task Force agents took down a man they said was dealing a large amount of steroids around the city.
Not only was he supplying, they say he was actually making the steroids from animal medication. Detectives said they found thousands of pills, Meth, Ecstasy, and a stolen gun, all within reach of five children inside the house.
“They tried to downplay it but it was a large amount. It was several thousand pills several thousand empty bottles,” The Drug Task Force Detective who didn’t want to be identified said.
Both Ruben Jaramillo and his wife Claudine were reportedly running an illegal pharmacy out of their home in Taylor Ranch. “There was liquid testosterone, anabolic steroids of all kinds, whether it be liquid or pills,” the detective said.
He says Jaramillo was making a lot of the stuff himself. Get this, he was allegedly cooking cattle medication to draw out testosterone, then mix it into steroids he sold to humans.
Investigators said they actually found batches of the cattle meds being prepared in the oven and on the stove.
Drug agents said Jaramillo told them he was selling them at the gym where he works out, Defined Fitness on Juan Tabo in the Northeast Heights. “We don't want to be associated with that,” Defined Fitness Corporate Membership Manager Shawn Gale said.
“Our goal is to help law enforcement keep this element out of gyms.” He went on to say, “Very dangerous, we don't condone that at all.”
Both the Jaramillo’s are out of jail, together they forked over about 8 thousand dollars in cash to get out. The gym said it will have employees patrol bathrooms and the floor more often to ensure no more dirty deals are being made.
Silly story on high school steroid use.
( I get the feeling these anonymous high school steroid surveys get as many honest answers as ones asking guys how big their dicks are or how long they last in bed. )
The threat of steroids, or appearance and performance enhancing drugs, use by high school students is soaring. Most experts agree that about one million U.S. high school students-have used anabolic steroids. And the usage rate is on the rise.
In 1993, one in 45 high school students used anabolic steroids. By 1999, the number was one in 27. Today, one in 16 high school students admits to using anabolic steroids. More than one in 20 high school girls already used anabolic steroids and the number continues to increase. The median age for first time users is 15.
According to Dr. Harrison Pope of Harvard University, "the unique thing about steroids is that a trained eye can spot a user when they are walking in the door."
The threat of steroids, or appearance and performance enhancing drugs, use by high school students is soaring. Most experts agree that about one million U.S. high school students-have used anabolic steroids. And the usage rate is on the rise.
In 1993, one in 45 high school students used anabolic steroids. By 1999, the number was one in 27. Today, one in 16 high school students admits to using anabolic steroids. More than one in 20 high school girls already used anabolic steroids and the number continues to increase. The median age for first time users is 15.
According to Dr. Harrison Pope of Harvard University, "the unique thing about steroids is that a trained eye can spot a user when they are walking in the door."
Court rules against German cyclist in doping case.
A German court ruled against Jan Ullrich on Friday in a dispute with an anti-doping campaigner who accused him of paying a Spanish doctor for doping.
The Hamburg state court dismissed a suit by Ullrich seeking to prevent Werner Franke from asserting that the cyclist paid $45,000 to Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes for doping in one year.
The court ruled that the statement, which Franke made in a television interview four years ago, had "to be viewed as true.''
Fuentes was the doctor at the heart of the Operation Puerto case, in which over 50 cyclists were implicated following raids in May 2006 that netted steroids, blood bags and blood doping equipment.
Ullrich argued that Franke's statement was untrue and that his choice of words implied specifically he paid money for illegal substances, the court said in a statement. It rejected the arguments.
Ullrich won the 1997 Tour de France but was kicked out on the eve of the 2006 Tour, along with Italian rider Ivan Basso, because of their suspected implication in Operation Puerto.
Ullrich was fired by the T-Mobile team after being thrown out of the Tour. He retired in February 2007, and has denied ever doping. There was no immediate word whether Ullrich would appeal Friday's ruling, which is allowed, the court said.
On Thursday, he announced on his website that he had been diagnosed with burnout syndrome and that it likely would require lengthy treatment. He added that he would withdraw from public activities completely over the coming months.
The Hamburg state court dismissed a suit by Ullrich seeking to prevent Werner Franke from asserting that the cyclist paid $45,000 to Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes for doping in one year.
The court ruled that the statement, which Franke made in a television interview four years ago, had "to be viewed as true.''
Fuentes was the doctor at the heart of the Operation Puerto case, in which over 50 cyclists were implicated following raids in May 2006 that netted steroids, blood bags and blood doping equipment.
Ullrich argued that Franke's statement was untrue and that his choice of words implied specifically he paid money for illegal substances, the court said in a statement. It rejected the arguments.
Ullrich won the 1997 Tour de France but was kicked out on the eve of the 2006 Tour, along with Italian rider Ivan Basso, because of their suspected implication in Operation Puerto.
Ullrich was fired by the T-Mobile team after being thrown out of the Tour. He retired in February 2007, and has denied ever doping. There was no immediate word whether Ullrich would appeal Friday's ruling, which is allowed, the court said.
On Thursday, he announced on his website that he had been diagnosed with burnout syndrome and that it likely would require lengthy treatment. He added that he would withdraw from public activities completely over the coming months.
Austrian sports agent pleads guilty to steroid supply.
A former Austrian athletes' manager who is seen as a central figure in a wide-ranging doping scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to peddling illicit substances to eight of his clients.
On the first day of his trial in Vienna, defendant Stefan Matschiner admitted to supplying disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, as well as Kohl's former Swiss teammate Markus Zberg and Austrian triathlete Lisa Huetthaler.
Matschiner did not want to name the other five athletes to whom he sold substances, including the blood booster EPO, testosterone and growth hormones. He argued that he wanted to protect them, Austrian press agency APA reported.
The sports manager also allegedly offered blood doping services with a centrifuge financed by Kohl, former Danish cycling pro Michael Rasmussen and Austrian cross-country skiing Olympic champion Christian Hoffmann.
Matschiner did not plead guilty on this count. He said he had transferred the equipment to Slovenia and Hungary in time before a new anti-doping law made such treatment illegal in Austria in August 2008.
The defendant faces a maximum of three years in prison.
On the first day of his trial in Vienna, defendant Stefan Matschiner admitted to supplying disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, as well as Kohl's former Swiss teammate Markus Zberg and Austrian triathlete Lisa Huetthaler.
Matschiner did not want to name the other five athletes to whom he sold substances, including the blood booster EPO, testosterone and growth hormones. He argued that he wanted to protect them, Austrian press agency APA reported.
The sports manager also allegedly offered blood doping services with a centrifuge financed by Kohl, former Danish cycling pro Michael Rasmussen and Austrian cross-country skiing Olympic champion Christian Hoffmann.
Matschiner did not plead guilty on this count. He said he had transferred the equipment to Slovenia and Hungary in time before a new anti-doping law made such treatment illegal in Austria in August 2008.
The defendant faces a maximum of three years in prison.
Scottish convicts caught with home made Paperbol books.
Caged crooks are eating book pages soaked in steroids in a bid to win a jail strongman contest. The devious cons have been getting pals to smuggle drug-tainted crime books into tough Shotts jail in the run-up to next week's competition.
And they are tearing out the pages and swallowing them to get a hit of the lethal muscle-building chemicals.
Savage double killer Christopher Hutcheson has already been barred from the contest. for refusing a drug test after guards began to suspect that he and other bulked-up inmates were getting hold of steroids.
The lags hope the drugs will help them get "ripped" - bodybuilding slang for a highly-muscled, lean body, before Wednesday's showdown in the prison gym.
Shotgun madman Raoul Moat and cop-killer David Bieber both used steroids, illegal Class C drugs which cause violent mood swings.
And worried bosses at Shotts began drug-testing contenders for the strongman event after noticing that some cons were getting "bigger and angrier".
A prison insider told the Record last night: "For weeks now, the prisoners have been getting loads of books delivered, many of them gangster biographies and autobiographies.
"The pages are soaked with steroids but the secur ity scanner doesn't pick up the liquid. "The cons take them back to their cells and rip out the pages before eating them .
"A lot of guys are taking the strongman contest. very seriously. In prison, it's all about looking the biggest and the hardest."But the staff became suspicious recently because a number of the cons are looking bigger and becoming more aggressive.
"Now every con who has put his name down for the competition is going to be tested. If they fail or refuse, they are banned. "Hutcheson was one of the first guys taken in for testing because he looked so abnormally big.
"Smuggling steroids into jail is extremely dangerous. They can make guys want to pick a fight with everyone. "It's a recipe for disaster in a prison and it has to be stopped."
And they are tearing out the pages and swallowing them to get a hit of the lethal muscle-building chemicals.
Savage double killer Christopher Hutcheson has already been barred from the contest. for refusing a drug test after guards began to suspect that he and other bulked-up inmates were getting hold of steroids.
The lags hope the drugs will help them get "ripped" - bodybuilding slang for a highly-muscled, lean body, before Wednesday's showdown in the prison gym.
Shotgun madman Raoul Moat and cop-killer David Bieber both used steroids, illegal Class C drugs which cause violent mood swings.
And worried bosses at Shotts began drug-testing contenders for the strongman event after noticing that some cons were getting "bigger and angrier".
A prison insider told the Record last night: "For weeks now, the prisoners have been getting loads of books delivered, many of them gangster biographies and autobiographies.
"The pages are soaked with steroids but the secur ity scanner doesn't pick up the liquid. "The cons take them back to their cells and rip out the pages before eating them .
"A lot of guys are taking the strongman contest. very seriously. In prison, it's all about looking the biggest and the hardest."But the staff became suspicious recently because a number of the cons are looking bigger and becoming more aggressive.
"Now every con who has put his name down for the competition is going to be tested. If they fail or refuse, they are banned. "Hutcheson was one of the first guys taken in for testing because he looked so abnormally big.
"Smuggling steroids into jail is extremely dangerous. They can make guys want to pick a fight with everyone. "It's a recipe for disaster in a prison and it has to be stopped."
Two more Canadian Football players banned for steroids.
University of Windsor Lancers linebacker Chris Deneau insists he is not a cheater. The 19-year-old Deneau was banned from sports for two years Tuesday by Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
In announcing a series of anti-doping measures, the CIS also announced that Deneau was one of two CIS football players whose urine sample tested positive for a banned substance during a June out-of-season test conducted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
Acadia University third-year linebacker Taylor Shadgett’s, who is from Barrie, tested positive for Stanozol and was also banned for two years.
“I couldn’t believe it,” the 19-year-old Deneau said of his reaction to being told he had failed the test.
CCES officials showed up at his Amherstburg home June 12 for the test and Deneau didn’t hesitate to comply. Coming off a case of tonsillitis, the Villanova high school grad informed officials that he was taking a cough syrup along with an over-the-counter weight supplement to try and put back some of the 13 pounds he had lost from his 222-pound frame.
The six-foot-one, Deneau feels sure that the supplement is where the Methyl-1-testosterone, which is the banned substance found in his system, originated.
“I was not trying to gain an edge,” Deneau said. “I was just trying to put weight back on. “I’m still trying to understand how I can be banned for something I bought at a health food store. It’s not like I got it from a buddy in a back alley.”
Deneau said a sample of the compound has been sent to a private lab for analysis, which he hopes will help clear his name. “I called a couple of different places to try and make sure it was all right,” Deneau said. “They made you feel like you were stupid. I took their word, which was my mistake.”
It’s the first positive test for a University of Windsor athlete, but the Lancers will stand behind him. “We’re going to support him,” Lancers head coach Mike Morencie said. “He’s one of our guys.”
Deneau, who is entering his second year, can continue with his studies, but cannot participate in any football functions. He’s eligible to return for the 2012 season.
Although he feels an over-the-counter product has cost him two years of playing time, Deneau firmly believes in the CIS testing program.
“I believe it’s wrong to take drugs and performance enhancers,” Deneau said. “I don’t take shortcuts. I work hard and I want to see athletes (that do cheat) caught.”
In announcing a series of anti-doping measures, the CIS also announced that Deneau was one of two CIS football players whose urine sample tested positive for a banned substance during a June out-of-season test conducted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
Acadia University third-year linebacker Taylor Shadgett’s, who is from Barrie, tested positive for Stanozol and was also banned for two years.
“I couldn’t believe it,” the 19-year-old Deneau said of his reaction to being told he had failed the test.
CCES officials showed up at his Amherstburg home June 12 for the test and Deneau didn’t hesitate to comply. Coming off a case of tonsillitis, the Villanova high school grad informed officials that he was taking a cough syrup along with an over-the-counter weight supplement to try and put back some of the 13 pounds he had lost from his 222-pound frame.
The six-foot-one, Deneau feels sure that the supplement is where the Methyl-1-testosterone, which is the banned substance found in his system, originated.
“I was not trying to gain an edge,” Deneau said. “I was just trying to put weight back on. “I’m still trying to understand how I can be banned for something I bought at a health food store. It’s not like I got it from a buddy in a back alley.”
Deneau said a sample of the compound has been sent to a private lab for analysis, which he hopes will help clear his name. “I called a couple of different places to try and make sure it was all right,” Deneau said. “They made you feel like you were stupid. I took their word, which was my mistake.”
It’s the first positive test for a University of Windsor athlete, but the Lancers will stand behind him. “We’re going to support him,” Lancers head coach Mike Morencie said. “He’s one of our guys.”
Deneau, who is entering his second year, can continue with his studies, but cannot participate in any football functions. He’s eligible to return for the 2012 season.
Although he feels an over-the-counter product has cost him two years of playing time, Deneau firmly believes in the CIS testing program.
“I believe it’s wrong to take drugs and performance enhancers,” Deneau said. “I don’t take shortcuts. I work hard and I want to see athletes (that do cheat) caught.”
Australian school kids taking steroids - more false stats !
( You have to wonder why the parents of these children are not in legal trouble could it be because the authors know that these kind of surveys are total BS ? Why do they never ask the kids to prove their claims ? )
Australian schools have been told to broaden their drug education programs as research shows how many teens are experimenting with anabolic steroids.
A major survey conducted in secondary schools has found 2.4 per cent of 12 to 17 year olds reported using the muscle enhancing injections.
Australian schools have been told to broaden their drug education programs as research shows how many teens are experimenting with anabolic steroids.
A major survey conducted in secondary schools has found 2.4 per cent of 12 to 17 year olds reported using the muscle enhancing injections.
New patent issued for Androxal / Enclomiphene Citrate
Repros Therapeutics Inc. today announced the US Patent and Trademark office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,759,360 for Androxal(R), the Company's lead program for the treatment of low testosterone in men. This patent specifically claims methods and materials for the treatment of testosterone deficiency in men with secondary hypogonadism. Repros has over 35 issued or pending US and European patents involving Androxal. The term of the patent will expire on March 19, 2023. If a Patent Term Extension under the Hatch-Waxman Act is granted, patent life in the US could extend into 2028.
"We are pleased to strengthen our intellectual property portfolio and expect additional patent grants surrounding Androxal," stated Joseph Podolski, President and Chief Executive Officer of Repros Therapeutics. "This patent is important to the protection of our Androxal program. If Repros can successfully develop Androxal, it could become a leading treatment for low testosterone in men."
"We are pleased to strengthen our intellectual property portfolio and expect additional patent grants surrounding Androxal," stated Joseph Podolski, President and Chief Executive Officer of Repros Therapeutics. "This patent is important to the protection of our Androxal program. If Repros can successfully develop Androxal, it could become a leading treatment for low testosterone in men."
Overtrained athlete syndrome ?
According to suspended Texans linebacker Brian Cushing, his failed drug test was not due to PED usage, but to a “unique” medical condition called “overtrained athlete syndrome.” Yea, I don’t know either.
Maybe we should just let him explain, as he did in an interview with SI’s Peter King on Friday:
“Everything points to that syndrome,” Cushing said, walking back to the Texans’ locker room after their afternoon practice.
“I’m pretty sure it is. I’m pretty positive. I didn’t take anything. It’s not a tainted supplement. So all roads lead to that.”
And who could argue with that bulletproof logic? Cushing tested positive for HGC, a substance used to restart regular testosterone production after completion of a steroid cycle. In fact, no player in the history of the NFL has ever tested for a higher level HGC. But overtrained athlete syndrome, you say? You’re pretty positive? All roads lead to that?
Cushing’s body either magically produces steroids, or it just produces bullshit. For some reason, I think that most people will be leaning towards the latter. By now, I’d assume you’ve seen that picture, the one juxtaposing Cushing as a saggy-boobed USC freshman next to a shot of him as a Lou Ferrigno-esque senior. Couple this image with a positive test, and there really doesn’t seem to be much left to debate.
Maybe we should just let him explain, as he did in an interview with SI’s Peter King on Friday:
“Everything points to that syndrome,” Cushing said, walking back to the Texans’ locker room after their afternoon practice.
“I’m pretty sure it is. I’m pretty positive. I didn’t take anything. It’s not a tainted supplement. So all roads lead to that.”
And who could argue with that bulletproof logic? Cushing tested positive for HGC, a substance used to restart regular testosterone production after completion of a steroid cycle. In fact, no player in the history of the NFL has ever tested for a higher level HGC. But overtrained athlete syndrome, you say? You’re pretty positive? All roads lead to that?
Cushing’s body either magically produces steroids, or it just produces bullshit. For some reason, I think that most people will be leaning towards the latter. By now, I’d assume you’ve seen that picture, the one juxtaposing Cushing as a saggy-boobed USC freshman next to a shot of him as a Lou Ferrigno-esque senior. Couple this image with a positive test, and there really doesn’t seem to be much left to debate.
Bangkok Post newspaper warns of steroids crackdown in Thailand.
The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB), US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and law enforcement officers from other countries are working together to clamp down on the problem.
The markets are in Asia, the US, Europe, South America and Australia, said Sangsuraya Karnasut, commander of NSB Division 1.
A coordinator for Siwapong Pattanapongpanich, a NSB superintendent involved in campaigns to clamp down on illegal steroids, said Thailand had become a major production base for steroids.
The substance is popular among professional athletes who want to quickly build muscles and strength. It is considered a controlled substance in many countries. In the US, possessing it is subject to punishment by narcotics law putting it in the same category as marijuana possession.
But Thai law treats illegal steroids differently. Its production comes under food and drug laws which allow for more lenient punishments than the Narcotics Act which can be used to impose the maximum penalty of a death sentence. The maximum penalty for violating food and drug laws is a jail sentence.
This leniency in Thailand's steroid prohibition laws, and the drug's popularity with athletes, lures both foreigners and locals to use the kingdom as a base to produce and sell them, said Pol Maj Gen Sangsuraya. He said chemicals used to make steroids were not hard to find.
The coordinator for Pol Col Siwapong, who requested anonymity, said steroids were also not difficult to produce. Making steroids requires some expertise but producers do not have to be specially trained chemists.
A recent crackdown by authorities underlined concerns about the problem.
On July 30, the NSB, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raided a house on Soi Charoen Krung 79 and four other places in the capital.
They found illegal steroids in tubes and bottles altogether worth about 100 million baht. Working on the information provided by the DEA, the NSB spent about two years trying to track this network.
An American based in Hong Kong was believed to have financed the operation by hiring Thais, including Rung Sunthornkanit, 41, to produce and deliver it after orders were sent to a website and money had been transferred.
Ms Rung confessed to police after the arrest, Pol Maj Gen Sangsuraya said. She faces five charges under food and drug laws. Orders from foreign clients were worth from 4 million to 7 million baht a month, the office said. One small bottle of a steroid made for 100 baht in Thailand can be sold for US$100 (3,200 baht) in the US.
British man convicted of steroid dealing gets suspended sentence.
A man has been handed a suspended prison sentence after he became one of the few people in the UK to be convicted this year of dealing anabolic steroids.
Andrew Degiorgio, 27, was found with 638 steroid tablets when a squad of police officers raided a premises in St Helens in March this year.
Appearing in court, Degiorgio pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to the supply of a controlled class C drug.
It is legal to possess them for personal use but a criminal offence to supply them. Nevertheless, prosecutions for dealing the substances are rare.
Degiorgio, of Hinckley Road, Islands Brow, is the only person to be convicted of distributing steroids in Merseyside during 2009/2010, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed this week.
There have only been several prosecutions in the UK during that period, in Derbyshire, South Wales and the Midlands.
Degiorgio, who appeared before St Helens Magistrates’ Court, admitted three counts of possession with intent to supply anabolic steroids.He also pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying steroids.
Magistrates sentenced him to an eight week prison sentence that is suspended for 12 months.He must carry out 200 hours unpaid work over the next year.
Andrew Degiorgio, 27, was found with 638 steroid tablets when a squad of police officers raided a premises in St Helens in March this year.
Appearing in court, Degiorgio pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to the supply of a controlled class C drug.
It is legal to possess them for personal use but a criminal offence to supply them. Nevertheless, prosecutions for dealing the substances are rare.
Degiorgio, of Hinckley Road, Islands Brow, is the only person to be convicted of distributing steroids in Merseyside during 2009/2010, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed this week.
There have only been several prosecutions in the UK during that period, in Derbyshire, South Wales and the Midlands.
Degiorgio, who appeared before St Helens Magistrates’ Court, admitted three counts of possession with intent to supply anabolic steroids.He also pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying steroids.
Magistrates sentenced him to an eight week prison sentence that is suspended for 12 months.He must carry out 200 hours unpaid work over the next year.
Androxal / Enclomiphene Citrate trials get FDA go ahead.
Repros Therapeutics Inc. said Monday it obtained positive written feedback from the Division of Reproductive and Urologic Products regarding its drug candidate Androxal.
In a written advice letter to the company, the FDA said, it agreed to the company's proposal to conduct two Phase 3 placebo and active controlled studies to demonstrate the benefit of enclomiphene in fertile hypogonadal men with normal gonadotropin levels. The agency added that the final protocols for the Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies should be submitted to the division for review.
Repros noted that the regulatory body agreed with the company's indication statement for the use of Androxal in the treatment of secondary hypogonadism in men wishing to preserve fertility.
The agency, in its written statement, added, "We recommend enrolling only those subjects with morning serum total testosterone levels below 250 ng/dl on two assessments performed at least one week apart to ensure that the majority of enrolled subjects have true hypogonadism warranting therapy."
The Company believes the FDA's comments are appropriate and will address them in the protocol that is being drafted, and said it would submit a Phase II protocol to determine a minimum effective dose when it submits its Phase III protocols to the FDA.
Joseph Podolski, Repros President and CEO, commented, "Gaining FDA agreement to the fertility preserving indication for Androxal is an important step in the development of the drug. We believe that Androxal, if eventually approved, can provide an important new drug therapy for men seeking treatment for their hypogonadal state."
In a written advice letter to the company, the FDA said, it agreed to the company's proposal to conduct two Phase 3 placebo and active controlled studies to demonstrate the benefit of enclomiphene in fertile hypogonadal men with normal gonadotropin levels. The agency added that the final protocols for the Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies should be submitted to the division for review.
Repros noted that the regulatory body agreed with the company's indication statement for the use of Androxal in the treatment of secondary hypogonadism in men wishing to preserve fertility.
The agency, in its written statement, added, "We recommend enrolling only those subjects with morning serum total testosterone levels below 250 ng/dl on two assessments performed at least one week apart to ensure that the majority of enrolled subjects have true hypogonadism warranting therapy."
The Company believes the FDA's comments are appropriate and will address them in the protocol that is being drafted, and said it would submit a Phase II protocol to determine a minimum effective dose when it submits its Phase III protocols to the FDA.
Joseph Podolski, Repros President and CEO, commented, "Gaining FDA agreement to the fertility preserving indication for Androxal is an important step in the development of the drug. We believe that Androxal, if eventually approved, can provide an important new drug therapy for men seeking treatment for their hypogonadal state."
Two small time steroid dealers busted in Dubai.
Dubai Police have arrested two Asians selling and distributing sex stimulants illegally, without getting licence from concerned authorities.
The police seized the stimulants from them, including in powder form and hormone injections. These drugs impact the human health adversely, police said.
Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, Deputy Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, said the recent increase in the use of hormones among youth is dangerous as it affects their health.
He lauded CID officials for the crackdown on those selling counterfeit products and called on the public not to buy any drugs being sold without the required licence from health authorities.
Major Salah bu Juma, Director of Anti Economic Crimes Section at Dubai Police, said that in January this year, the department received a tip-off that an Asian was illegally selling body growth hormones.
The police set up a team and an undercover police officer was sent as a decoy customer. The suspect was arrested red-handed as he was handing over the hormones and receiving money from the undercover police. “On searching his flat and car, the police found large quantities of the drugs.”
During his interrogation, the man confessed that he had no licence from the Ministry of health and that he had got the hormone drugs from another Asian living in Dubai.
The police set up a trap and asked the first suspect to ask his partner to bring him more quantities of the drugs and he too was arrested thereafter.
“As the suspects had no licence, they did not store the drugs properly,” Major Juma said. The second suspect confessed to importing the drugs from abroad any license from the health authorities.
The police seized the stimulants from them, including in powder form and hormone injections. These drugs impact the human health adversely, police said.
Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, Deputy Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, said the recent increase in the use of hormones among youth is dangerous as it affects their health.
He lauded CID officials for the crackdown on those selling counterfeit products and called on the public not to buy any drugs being sold without the required licence from health authorities.
Major Salah bu Juma, Director of Anti Economic Crimes Section at Dubai Police, said that in January this year, the department received a tip-off that an Asian was illegally selling body growth hormones.
The police set up a team and an undercover police officer was sent as a decoy customer. The suspect was arrested red-handed as he was handing over the hormones and receiving money from the undercover police. “On searching his flat and car, the police found large quantities of the drugs.”
During his interrogation, the man confessed that he had no licence from the Ministry of health and that he had got the hormone drugs from another Asian living in Dubai.
The police set up a trap and asked the first suspect to ask his partner to bring him more quantities of the drugs and he too was arrested thereafter.
“As the suspects had no licence, they did not store the drugs properly,” Major Juma said. The second suspect confessed to importing the drugs from abroad any license from the health authorities.
Baseball coach who attacked rival coach tested positive for steroids.
During sentencing, Lamz said he suspected -- "due to your huge muscular appearance" -- that Chighizola likely was on steroids or other performance enhancing drugs. He ordered the coach regularly tested for substance abuse.
Chighizola tested positive for trenbolone metabolite, which is used by veterinarians on livestock to increase muscle growth and appetite, the records show. He also tested positive for stanozolol metabolite, which is often used along with other anabolic steroids and is known for increasing strength while not leading to excess weight gain.
The results were conducted by a California company, Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, and measured the balance between Chighizola's testosterone and epitestosterone. If the ratio of testosterone in a person's system is greater than six times the amount of epitestosterone, then it generally means that there are steroids in the person's system.
In Chighizola's case, that ratio equaled 86, the records show.
Chighizola tested positive for trenbolone metabolite, which is used by veterinarians on livestock to increase muscle growth and appetite, the records show. He also tested positive for stanozolol metabolite, which is often used along with other anabolic steroids and is known for increasing strength while not leading to excess weight gain.
The results were conducted by a California company, Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, and measured the balance between Chighizola's testosterone and epitestosterone. If the ratio of testosterone in a person's system is greater than six times the amount of epitestosterone, then it generally means that there are steroids in the person's system.
In Chighizola's case, that ratio equaled 86, the records show.
British steroids dealer gets a six month suspended sentence.
An unemployed electrician made thousands of pounds selling illegal steroids to friends and gym club members, a court was told.
Christopher Drew, who pleaded guilty to five counts of supplying anabolic steroids, was told by a judge that he was involved in the “shady side of sports enhancement”.
The 24-year-old, of Well Lane, Little Witley, near Worcester, was living near Powick when police found a haul of Class C prescription drugs in his car. There were more than 3,500 tablets or vials of steroids, worth about £1,300. Gareth Walters, prosecuting at Worcester Crown Court yesterday said Drew also had £1,100 in cash and a £40 cheque. Although he initially told officers it was money left over from a loan, he admitted – after police found incriminating messages on his mobile phone – that it was profit from selling the drugs.
“When his phone and the substances had been analysed he was interviewed again,” said Mr Walters. “He said he had been selling steroids for a few months, but only to a closed circuit of people.
“The drugs are used to build muscle and tone. He sold them to users of the local gym and kept the money to fund his own lifestyle.”
Anabolic steroids, which have a similar effect to the male hormone testosterone, can only be prescribed by licensed general practitioners.
Sentencing Drew, Recorder Ruth Dean said the case crossed the custody threshold and there were a number of aggravating features, but she agreed with defence solicitor Lisa Hancox that the pre-sentence report showed he was making progress. She said: “These offences are serious; they are part of the shady side of sports enhancement.
“You’re relatively young and I’m putting this offending down to relative immaturity.”
Drew was sentenced to six months in jail suspended for 18 months. He was also ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and must adhere to an electronically tagged curfew for the next 20 weeks.
Christopher Drew, who pleaded guilty to five counts of supplying anabolic steroids, was told by a judge that he was involved in the “shady side of sports enhancement”.
The 24-year-old, of Well Lane, Little Witley, near Worcester, was living near Powick when police found a haul of Class C prescription drugs in his car. There were more than 3,500 tablets or vials of steroids, worth about £1,300. Gareth Walters, prosecuting at Worcester Crown Court yesterday said Drew also had £1,100 in cash and a £40 cheque. Although he initially told officers it was money left over from a loan, he admitted – after police found incriminating messages on his mobile phone – that it was profit from selling the drugs.
“When his phone and the substances had been analysed he was interviewed again,” said Mr Walters. “He said he had been selling steroids for a few months, but only to a closed circuit of people.
“The drugs are used to build muscle and tone. He sold them to users of the local gym and kept the money to fund his own lifestyle.”
Anabolic steroids, which have a similar effect to the male hormone testosterone, can only be prescribed by licensed general practitioners.
Sentencing Drew, Recorder Ruth Dean said the case crossed the custody threshold and there were a number of aggravating features, but she agreed with defence solicitor Lisa Hancox that the pre-sentence report showed he was making progress. She said: “These offences are serious; they are part of the shady side of sports enhancement.
“You’re relatively young and I’m putting this offending down to relative immaturity.”
Drew was sentenced to six months in jail suspended for 18 months. He was also ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and must adhere to an electronically tagged curfew for the next 20 weeks.
New pictures from the Advanced Stealth steroids bust.
A reader emailed me these pics. It looks like Advanced Stealth were using the exact same 'lotion' packaging disguise that the famous two letter Chinese source invented back in the early 2000s.
More Thai translations about the Advanced Stealth steroids bust.
Reading these new translations it does appear that the American owner of Advanced Stealth and several employees managed to make their escape during the raid, this major mistake could explain why there has been no coverage of the bust in the US press and no pictures of the guy in Thai press reports. I imagine his plan will be to sneak across the Cambodian border. The name given in earlier press reports may well be false.
The first is from the dailynews.co. th
Police Narcotics 1. Raids sources produce steroids major. Bangkorlame district.
Today (30th July) correspondent reported. Maj. Gen. Soornit ear optical formula Commander Police Bureau Narcotics 1 (ผบก.ปส. 1) Pol Chatchai Sirisap vice through land 0.1 with DPW staff. Narcotics in Thailand or the U.S. DEA. officers º ª. DPW 0.1. Officials from the organization Food and Drug Administration. Southern Bangkok Criminal Court, the meaning of 0.184 c / 2553 dated July 29 raid in House No. 3 Road, Soi 7 Sudprasert Bangkhlo Bangklo Bangkok after receiving notification that the house is a source of production drug compounds that have the infrastructure. Flavor steroids and drug sensitivity A Mega. Without permission.
From the discovery that the plant is a single storey house adjacent two after planting and fence on the edge close the home was Ms. Rung Sunthorn Kanit age 41 years, residing at 3333/45 Bangkhlo Road area. Bang Kho Laem, Bangkok, and Mr. Preecha Bavorn Rattana Bunya aged 44 years, residing at 43 long lane 7 Soi Saphan Taksin 42 Road, Thonburi sitting Daokanong be administered to receive orders to North Pack parcel packages. Staff is to invade contained. But be aware, Mr. Preecha Than run away before fleeing. The officer has custody. Rung Sat. To explore next. Monitoring of the home and found drugs after a two steroids contained in small glass bottles. Drug and willingness to do KOH at  transformed by the lotions and oils contain a lot of boxing. In addition, drug sensitivity Rica A panel containing the input, and also contains numerous pending. As well as ingredients in the manufacture of a drug. Pumps and mixing drugs with packaging. , Round plastic bottles empty, the lottery provided plastic packaging and lots of drugs produced. And computers used in the contact order of a machine worth at least a hundred million seizure of all staff is to check out.
Maj. Gen. light Soornit said the arrest was due to the National Police Office has been coordinating the staff of the United States. That American manufacturing illegal drugs, open source State Tree  steroid in Thailand. The officer's investigation ª º. DPW has monitored gang investigation produced information. This drug gang and the gang know that the producers continue to move to shelter. Escape arrest, which from the data source that has produced several of which will be one. But the raid is the largest. Led to a search warrant check. Preliminary note that the capitalist-owned pharmaceutical sources said that the Roman Adam, 29-year-old Americans who live in Hong Kong. Mr. Roman rented a house from the back. Rung Sat. In a thousand baht a month with the production and employment are all drug delivery. To pay another five thousand a month, Mr. Roman will be the supplier of the raw material used in sport to increase Hardness and strength of muscles, erectile dysfunction. There will be sending out a formula to mix the drug for The transaction will order the Internet and delivered by mail only. Most customers at the bar, USA, Philippines, South America and Asia.
Chatchai said the senior police investigation of a. S rainbow The squeaking that Will be open every morning email to verify that the customer wants to order what Then goods will amount to send in the mail. There will be drivers ¨ Â. Contractors take away There will be advertising through the website. Advanced-Stealth. Stating that the officer can not be traded to the suppression For price and trading of drugs a steroids overseas prices are high, up to $ 100, which showed that Mr. Roman revenue flow from the production of drugs per month no less than seven million, Mr Roman method of packaging drugs. a haze in the form of lotions and manufactured goods make check product is delivered to the mail will be used as a random check is based on weight and appearance products. For an offense not connected to drug offenses, but the offense by Wed. Food and Drug Act and charged with possession of drug production is not allowed. And will need to do the. Lead inspection or counterfeit drugs that are not If so, it would add more charges. Preecha said the basic tracks that are to escape quickly. Before delivering the care center and sent to the accused. Wat Phraya Krai. To prosecution. The Romans said that now and escape. This track is a party to arrest the officers of the United States.
Second translation is from banmuang.co.th
Sonthi is a staff ผบก.ปส. U.S. raids a source of illicit drug production and drug haze A sensitive spy Rica after that of Americans hire Thais to produce 50,000 a month by trading via the internet. Shipping transnational Drugs were wrapped steroids With drug sensitivity Rica A lot. Worth at least 100 million Baht
At 10.30 am on 30 Jul 53 Maj. Gen. light Soornit ear ผบก.ปส. a formula with anti-narcotics officials in Thailand or the U.S. DEA and officials from the organization Food and Drug Administration. Invade one house raid, 3 7, Soi Sudprasert Bangkhlo Bangklo Bangkok after a source told a pharmaceutical steroids and drug sensitivity A Mega without permission arrested with Ms. Rung Sunthorn Kanit to age 41 years, but Mr. Preecha Bavorn Rattana Bunya vigilant Than 44 years of age ran away to escape.
The plant is a home grown adjacent two storey rear fence around the edge near Monitoring of the home after the two were sitting Ms. Rung organized medicine bottle and the parcel is contained. It also found a medication that contains steroids in small glass bottles. And steroids a drug that is transformed by packing lotion and oil fight A sensitive and drug Rica packed and waiting for input panel contains numerous. As well as ingredients in the manufacture of a drug. And computers used in the contact order of a machine worth at least U.S. $ 100 million from the investigation that Ms. Rung squeaking that Mr. Roman who employ And provide raw material drug production and take the formula for Which he is responsible for opening e-mail to determine how much product to customers. Can be sent by mail only. The customers mostly located in USA, Philippines, South America and Asia bar will be advertising through the website. Advanced-Stealth. Stating that the officer can not be traded to the suppression
Maj. Gen. Soornit light revealed that the arrest of this coordinate information from U.S. officials. The Thai police. As successor in mind that the source of drug production at the house. By Mr. Roman Adam, age 29 years to hire Americans who pay rent by the month, Ms. Rung 10,000 and 50,000 a month, Mr. Roman has found that current monthly income of no less than 7,000,000. U.S. will follow the basic Preecha also to quickly escape. Before delivering the medium and sent to the accused. Wat Phraya Krai police station. To prosecution. The Romans said that now and escape. This track is a party to arrest the officers of the United States.
The first is from the dailynews.co. th
Police Narcotics 1. Raids sources produce steroids major. Bangkorlame district.
Today (30th July) correspondent reported. Maj. Gen. Soornit ear optical formula Commander Police Bureau Narcotics 1 (ผบก.ปส. 1) Pol Chatchai Sirisap vice through land 0.1 with DPW staff. Narcotics in Thailand or the U.S. DEA. officers º ª. DPW 0.1. Officials from the organization Food and Drug Administration. Southern Bangkok Criminal Court, the meaning of 0.184 c / 2553 dated July 29 raid in House No. 3 Road, Soi 7 Sudprasert Bangkhlo Bangklo Bangkok after receiving notification that the house is a source of production drug compounds that have the infrastructure. Flavor steroids and drug sensitivity A Mega. Without permission.
From the discovery that the plant is a single storey house adjacent two after planting and fence on the edge close the home was Ms. Rung Sunthorn Kanit age 41 years, residing at 3333/45 Bangkhlo Road area. Bang Kho Laem, Bangkok, and Mr. Preecha Bavorn Rattana Bunya aged 44 years, residing at 43 long lane 7 Soi Saphan Taksin 42 Road, Thonburi sitting Daokanong be administered to receive orders to North Pack parcel packages. Staff is to invade contained. But be aware, Mr. Preecha Than run away before fleeing. The officer has custody. Rung Sat. To explore next. Monitoring of the home and found drugs after a two steroids contained in small glass bottles. Drug and willingness to do KOH at  transformed by the lotions and oils contain a lot of boxing. In addition, drug sensitivity Rica A panel containing the input, and also contains numerous pending. As well as ingredients in the manufacture of a drug. Pumps and mixing drugs with packaging. , Round plastic bottles empty, the lottery provided plastic packaging and lots of drugs produced. And computers used in the contact order of a machine worth at least a hundred million seizure of all staff is to check out.
Maj. Gen. light Soornit said the arrest was due to the National Police Office has been coordinating the staff of the United States. That American manufacturing illegal drugs, open source State Tree  steroid in Thailand. The officer's investigation ª º. DPW has monitored gang investigation produced information. This drug gang and the gang know that the producers continue to move to shelter. Escape arrest, which from the data source that has produced several of which will be one. But the raid is the largest. Led to a search warrant check. Preliminary note that the capitalist-owned pharmaceutical sources said that the Roman Adam, 29-year-old Americans who live in Hong Kong. Mr. Roman rented a house from the back. Rung Sat. In a thousand baht a month with the production and employment are all drug delivery. To pay another five thousand a month, Mr. Roman will be the supplier of the raw material used in sport to increase Hardness and strength of muscles, erectile dysfunction. There will be sending out a formula to mix the drug for The transaction will order the Internet and delivered by mail only. Most customers at the bar, USA, Philippines, South America and Asia.
Chatchai said the senior police investigation of a. S rainbow The squeaking that Will be open every morning email to verify that the customer wants to order what Then goods will amount to send in the mail. There will be drivers ¨ Â. Contractors take away There will be advertising through the website. Advanced-Stealth. Stating that the officer can not be traded to the suppression For price and trading of drugs a steroids overseas prices are high, up to $ 100, which showed that Mr. Roman revenue flow from the production of drugs per month no less than seven million, Mr Roman method of packaging drugs. a haze in the form of lotions and manufactured goods make check product is delivered to the mail will be used as a random check is based on weight and appearance products. For an offense not connected to drug offenses, but the offense by Wed. Food and Drug Act and charged with possession of drug production is not allowed. And will need to do the. Lead inspection or counterfeit drugs that are not If so, it would add more charges. Preecha said the basic tracks that are to escape quickly. Before delivering the care center and sent to the accused. Wat Phraya Krai. To prosecution. The Romans said that now and escape. This track is a party to arrest the officers of the United States.
Second translation is from banmuang.co.th
Sonthi is a staff ผบก.ปส. U.S. raids a source of illicit drug production and drug haze A sensitive spy Rica after that of Americans hire Thais to produce 50,000 a month by trading via the internet. Shipping transnational Drugs were wrapped steroids With drug sensitivity Rica A lot. Worth at least 100 million Baht
At 10.30 am on 30 Jul 53 Maj. Gen. light Soornit ear ผบก.ปส. a formula with anti-narcotics officials in Thailand or the U.S. DEA and officials from the organization Food and Drug Administration. Invade one house raid, 3 7, Soi Sudprasert Bangkhlo Bangklo Bangkok after a source told a pharmaceutical steroids and drug sensitivity A Mega without permission arrested with Ms. Rung Sunthorn Kanit to age 41 years, but Mr. Preecha Bavorn Rattana Bunya vigilant Than 44 years of age ran away to escape.
The plant is a home grown adjacent two storey rear fence around the edge near Monitoring of the home after the two were sitting Ms. Rung organized medicine bottle and the parcel is contained. It also found a medication that contains steroids in small glass bottles. And steroids a drug that is transformed by packing lotion and oil fight A sensitive and drug Rica packed and waiting for input panel contains numerous. As well as ingredients in the manufacture of a drug. And computers used in the contact order of a machine worth at least U.S. $ 100 million from the investigation that Ms. Rung squeaking that Mr. Roman who employ And provide raw material drug production and take the formula for Which he is responsible for opening e-mail to determine how much product to customers. Can be sent by mail only. The customers mostly located in USA, Philippines, South America and Asia bar will be advertising through the website. Advanced-Stealth. Stating that the officer can not be traded to the suppression
Maj. Gen. Soornit light revealed that the arrest of this coordinate information from U.S. officials. The Thai police. As successor in mind that the source of drug production at the house. By Mr. Roman Adam, age 29 years to hire Americans who pay rent by the month, Ms. Rung 10,000 and 50,000 a month, Mr. Roman has found that current monthly income of no less than 7,000,000. U.S. will follow the basic Preecha also to quickly escape. Before delivering the medium and sent to the accused. Wat Phraya Krai police station. To prosecution. The Romans said that now and escape. This track is a party to arrest the officers of the United States.
More info on Advanced Stealth steroids bust.
Just got an interesting email from a guy who claims that the Advanced Stealth guy owns a number of other steroid sites some of which are very famous.
Sadly I'm unable to vefiry it as nearly all of the sites use "Who is" privacy to hide their true ownership.
( So if I'm wrong I apologise in advance to the sites listed but I do think it's important to try and warn people as their order info may already be in the hands of LE and if I am wrong this is great free advertising for your sites )
My own quick research shows that many of the sites listed do indeed appear to link to each other which lends a lot more weight to my tipster's claim.
The list is as follows :-
isteroids. com
roid-shop. com
cheap-steroids. net
xproids. com
xroids. net
gproids. com
ibuysteroids. com
eclenbuterol. com
e-steroid. com
If he really does own all these sites then the Advanced Stealth guy probably was the biggest international source of all time since ORD as these sites occupy most of the top ten result spots on google for nearly all popular steroid related searches.
Sadly I'm unable to vefiry it as nearly all of the sites use "Who is" privacy to hide their true ownership.
( So if I'm wrong I apologise in advance to the sites listed but I do think it's important to try and warn people as their order info may already be in the hands of LE and if I am wrong this is great free advertising for your sites )
My own quick research shows that many of the sites listed do indeed appear to link to each other which lends a lot more weight to my tipster's claim.
The list is as follows :-
isteroids. com
roid-shop. com
cheap-steroids. net
xproids. com
xroids. net
gproids. com
ibuysteroids. com
eclenbuterol. com
e-steroid. com
If he really does own all these sites then the Advanced Stealth guy probably was the biggest international source of all time since ORD as these sites occupy most of the top ten result spots on google for nearly all popular steroid related searches.
Advanced Stealth steroids lab busted in Bangkok, Thailand.
( This story has yet to be covered by the mainstream English language press either in Thailand or the West. I suspect that means there's more busts to come )
Translation of mcot.net steroid bust story.
สธ 0.30 July - Dr. Pipat more free Secretary General of the Food and Drug Administration, said officials do. The Food and Drug Administration (), in cooperation with the police DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) of the United States. Police Narcotics. And Department of Customs Raid illegal drug producers in many of Bangkok Charoenkrung area. Advertising sales and customer sites. WWW. ASTEALTH.COM. Supply around the world. Were produced medications sexual disability. Drug โด๊ป athletes. Drug Class strengthen muscles. Do not use cosmetics mixed seizure of numerous prosecutions send excess of 200 million U.S. spy known export value of U.S. $ 6-7 million per month. Severely punished and prosecuted both the highest and fine In the fake drug charges. Not a registered pharmacies recipe And selling drugs without permission. Charged with manufacture and sale of cosmetics mixed prohibited. And will expand the review of third-party sources offense next To protect consumers. Victim and not to Thailand illegally manufacturing source. If you find any source of income is expected to produce not legitimate. Drug suspects and were unsafe to use. Or see the advertisement of websites that sell illegal drugs. Asked to report complaints to the hotline do. Call 0.1556 to do. Will monitor the location hard to arrest and punish the guilty to go. .- Thai News Agency.
Translation of thairath.co.th steroid bust story.
Do. Thalai producers "illegal drugs" downtown. After the U.S. Office of Narcotics Control report found drugs raid alarm hint sex drug โด๊ป cosmetics worth over 200 million owners are foreigners ....
Held on 30 more free U.c.npo. Pipat Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration () today announced the arrest of the largest illegal drug production since the arrest of illegal drug production is not valid The Conservation Area is Charoenkrung. Bangkok, namely that of the Oil. Has coordinated with police Narcotics Unit of the United States or DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), Police Headquarters Narcotics. And the Customs Department has a clue that a major illegal drug production in Bangkok. Investigation was therefore conducted. The illegal production and sale of drugs. Send both domestic and international distribution. By advertising through the site. WWW.ASTEALTH.COM. After you complete information. It plans to arrest In the afternoon of 30 July last.
MD. Pipat said the arrest of this officer do. Along with the police anti-drug And customs officers. Have to raid a house number and three Sudprasert Soi 7, Bangkok appears Bangklo find a place to manufacture modern medicine without permission. In the home also found fewer paper plate medications for erectile dysfunction eat and found the counterfeit drug companies also found that the Pentagon has put cosmetics prohibited substances. Look like cream in tubes. Labelling cosmetics and incorrect Several items. Police also seized drugs and cosmetics center of all As well as chemical raw material manufacturing machinery punch tablet capsule, accounting for approximately 200 million Baht
Do Secretariat. Said that in the analysis of cosmetics will find dangerous substances used in illegal. Sam is now the owner of the investigation that the product abroad. However, Thai people do contract manufacturing The effect that expansion. These sites are add people to foreigners. Numerous products. Be sent via parcel post to most countries. Exports worth around 6-7 million per month. The prosecution informed of the offense very seriously.
Of Py. Viravan Deputy Secretary-General's Glass melon do. Do not say that. To monitor the illegal production and sales of cosmetics and invalid. Law continued and close Let consumer confidence in the operations of the Oil aggressive. To monitor the safety of consumers in drug use. And cosmetics And do not let the guilty be free Remind people not believe the drug ads that pretend various Through websites. If the producers were not making any legitimate. Asked to report complaints to the hotline do. Call 0.1556 to do. Will monitor the location hard to arrest and punish the guilty to go.
Translation of thannews.th.com steroid bust story.
Do. Louis police with DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) of the United States, Police and Customs Bc.ps.. Raid illegal drug producers in many of Bangkok. Charoenkrung row area. Advertising sales and customer sites. Supply around the world. Were produced medications sexual disability. Drug โด๊ป athletes. Drug Class strengthen muscles. Do not use cosmetics mixed seizure of numerous prosecutions send excess of 200 million U.S. spy known export value of 6-7 million per month. Severely punished and prosecuted both the highest and fine In the fake drug charges. Not a registered pharmacies recipe And selling drugs without permission. Charged with manufacture and sale of cosmetics mixed prohibited. And will expand the review of third-party sources offense next To protect consumers. Victim and not to Thailand illegally manufacturing source.
MD. Pipat more free Secretary-General of the Food and Drug Administration and Py. Viravan Glass melon Deputy Secretary General of the Food and Drug Administration. Joint statement to reporters that Policy clearance to manufacture and sell health products illegal to put an end to. From Thailand's Ministry of Health (Mr. Jurin icon Wisit) The Food and Drug Administration () to meet strict guidelines. For consumer protection and security. And the investigation found that the illegal production and sale of drugs. Send both domestic and international distribution. By advertising through the site. WWW.ASTEALTH.COM. It was planning to arrest
Today (30 Jul 53) Oil officials. Coordinate with the police anti-drug And customs officers. To raid a house number, and three Sudprasert Soi 7, Bangkok appears Bangklo find a place to manufacture modern medicine without permission. Production and tablets and injection drug classes are building muscle. Drug โด๊ป athletes. Medications disability sexual drug a haze to find paper plate medications disability and gender for eating and found the fake drugs in other companies also find cosmetics add substances prohibited from using nature as cream in the tube. Labelling cosmetics and incorrect Many many items.
Police also seized the central drug and cosmetics all produced in house such as well as raw chemicals, machinery equipment manufacturer stamp tablet capsule, accounting for approximately 200 million U.S. for cosmetics will be sent analysis for hazardous substances are not allowed in Cosmetics with ownership in the product abroad. We discovered, but the Thai manufacturing operations. And the expansion of the mind that such sites have people to foreigners. Add numerous products. Be sent via parcel post to most countries. Exports worth around 6 -7 million per month.
The prosecution informed of the offense charged in the production strictly modern medicine without permission. With imprisonment not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding one thousand baht, or both, production of fake drugs from three years imprisonment to life and a fine from 10,000 to 50,000 baht and drug production without the registration recipe With imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding $ 5,000 or both. Crime in the cosmetic Informed alleging counterfeit cosmetics. With imprisonment not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding 30,000 baht, or both, cosmetics labels do not display correctly. With imprisonment not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding 20,000 baht, or both. If not detected substance use in cosmetics. Is imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding 60,000 baht, or both.
Py. Viravan Glass, Deputy Secretary General Tang's Oil. "Continued that do. To monitor production and distribution of illicit drugs and cosmetics invalid. Law continued and close Let consumer confidence in the operations of the Oil aggressive. To monitor the safety of consumers in drug use. And cosmetics And do not let the guilty be free Remind people not believe the drug ads, especially pretentious boasting about treating erectile dysfunction slack. Through websites. May be at risk of harm from the body. And will not allow foreign manufacturers to use Thailand as a production location. Health law certainly If you find any source of income is expected to produce not legitimate. Drugs were suspected and Unsafe to use. Or see the advertisement of websites that sell illegal drugs. Asked to report complaints to the hotline do. Call 0.1556 to do. Will monitor the location hard to arrest and punish the guilty to go.
Translation of mcot.net steroid bust story.
สธ 0.30 July - Dr. Pipat more free Secretary General of the Food and Drug Administration, said officials do. The Food and Drug Administration (), in cooperation with the police DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) of the United States. Police Narcotics. And Department of Customs Raid illegal drug producers in many of Bangkok Charoenkrung area. Advertising sales and customer sites. WWW. ASTEALTH.COM. Supply around the world. Were produced medications sexual disability. Drug โด๊ป athletes. Drug Class strengthen muscles. Do not use cosmetics mixed seizure of numerous prosecutions send excess of 200 million U.S. spy known export value of U.S. $ 6-7 million per month. Severely punished and prosecuted both the highest and fine In the fake drug charges. Not a registered pharmacies recipe And selling drugs without permission. Charged with manufacture and sale of cosmetics mixed prohibited. And will expand the review of third-party sources offense next To protect consumers. Victim and not to Thailand illegally manufacturing source. If you find any source of income is expected to produce not legitimate. Drug suspects and were unsafe to use. Or see the advertisement of websites that sell illegal drugs. Asked to report complaints to the hotline do. Call 0.1556 to do. Will monitor the location hard to arrest and punish the guilty to go. .- Thai News Agency.
Translation of thairath.co.th steroid bust story.
Do. Thalai producers "illegal drugs" downtown. After the U.S. Office of Narcotics Control report found drugs raid alarm hint sex drug โด๊ป cosmetics worth over 200 million owners are foreigners ....
Held on 30 more free U.c.npo. Pipat Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration () today announced the arrest of the largest illegal drug production since the arrest of illegal drug production is not valid The Conservation Area is Charoenkrung. Bangkok, namely that of the Oil. Has coordinated with police Narcotics Unit of the United States or DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), Police Headquarters Narcotics. And the Customs Department has a clue that a major illegal drug production in Bangkok. Investigation was therefore conducted. The illegal production and sale of drugs. Send both domestic and international distribution. By advertising through the site. WWW.ASTEALTH.COM. After you complete information. It plans to arrest In the afternoon of 30 July last.
MD. Pipat said the arrest of this officer do. Along with the police anti-drug And customs officers. Have to raid a house number and three Sudprasert Soi 7, Bangkok appears Bangklo find a place to manufacture modern medicine without permission. In the home also found fewer paper plate medications for erectile dysfunction eat and found the counterfeit drug companies also found that the Pentagon has put cosmetics prohibited substances. Look like cream in tubes. Labelling cosmetics and incorrect Several items. Police also seized drugs and cosmetics center of all As well as chemical raw material manufacturing machinery punch tablet capsule, accounting for approximately 200 million Baht
Do Secretariat. Said that in the analysis of cosmetics will find dangerous substances used in illegal. Sam is now the owner of the investigation that the product abroad. However, Thai people do contract manufacturing The effect that expansion. These sites are add people to foreigners. Numerous products. Be sent via parcel post to most countries. Exports worth around 6-7 million per month. The prosecution informed of the offense very seriously.
Of Py. Viravan Deputy Secretary-General's Glass melon do. Do not say that. To monitor the illegal production and sales of cosmetics and invalid. Law continued and close Let consumer confidence in the operations of the Oil aggressive. To monitor the safety of consumers in drug use. And cosmetics And do not let the guilty be free Remind people not believe the drug ads that pretend various Through websites. If the producers were not making any legitimate. Asked to report complaints to the hotline do. Call 0.1556 to do. Will monitor the location hard to arrest and punish the guilty to go.
Translation of thannews.th.com steroid bust story.
Do. Louis police with DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) of the United States, Police and Customs Bc.ps.. Raid illegal drug producers in many of Bangkok. Charoenkrung row area. Advertising sales and customer sites. Supply around the world. Were produced medications sexual disability. Drug โด๊ป athletes. Drug Class strengthen muscles. Do not use cosmetics mixed seizure of numerous prosecutions send excess of 200 million U.S. spy known export value of 6-7 million per month. Severely punished and prosecuted both the highest and fine In the fake drug charges. Not a registered pharmacies recipe And selling drugs without permission. Charged with manufacture and sale of cosmetics mixed prohibited. And will expand the review of third-party sources offense next To protect consumers. Victim and not to Thailand illegally manufacturing source.
MD. Pipat more free Secretary-General of the Food and Drug Administration and Py. Viravan Glass melon Deputy Secretary General of the Food and Drug Administration. Joint statement to reporters that Policy clearance to manufacture and sell health products illegal to put an end to. From Thailand's Ministry of Health (Mr. Jurin icon Wisit) The Food and Drug Administration () to meet strict guidelines. For consumer protection and security. And the investigation found that the illegal production and sale of drugs. Send both domestic and international distribution. By advertising through the site. WWW.ASTEALTH.COM. It was planning to arrest
Today (30 Jul 53) Oil officials. Coordinate with the police anti-drug And customs officers. To raid a house number, and three Sudprasert Soi 7, Bangkok appears Bangklo find a place to manufacture modern medicine without permission. Production and tablets and injection drug classes are building muscle. Drug โด๊ป athletes. Medications disability sexual drug a haze to find paper plate medications disability and gender for eating and found the fake drugs in other companies also find cosmetics add substances prohibited from using nature as cream in the tube. Labelling cosmetics and incorrect Many many items.
Police also seized the central drug and cosmetics all produced in house such as well as raw chemicals, machinery equipment manufacturer stamp tablet capsule, accounting for approximately 200 million U.S. for cosmetics will be sent analysis for hazardous substances are not allowed in Cosmetics with ownership in the product abroad. We discovered, but the Thai manufacturing operations. And the expansion of the mind that such sites have people to foreigners. Add numerous products. Be sent via parcel post to most countries. Exports worth around 6 -7 million per month.
The prosecution informed of the offense charged in the production strictly modern medicine without permission. With imprisonment not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding one thousand baht, or both, production of fake drugs from three years imprisonment to life and a fine from 10,000 to 50,000 baht and drug production without the registration recipe With imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding $ 5,000 or both. Crime in the cosmetic Informed alleging counterfeit cosmetics. With imprisonment not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding 30,000 baht, or both, cosmetics labels do not display correctly. With imprisonment not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding 20,000 baht, or both. If not detected substance use in cosmetics. Is imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding 60,000 baht, or both.
Py. Viravan Glass, Deputy Secretary General Tang's Oil. "Continued that do. To monitor production and distribution of illicit drugs and cosmetics invalid. Law continued and close Let consumer confidence in the operations of the Oil aggressive. To monitor the safety of consumers in drug use. And cosmetics And do not let the guilty be free Remind people not believe the drug ads, especially pretentious boasting about treating erectile dysfunction slack. Through websites. May be at risk of harm from the body. And will not allow foreign manufacturers to use Thailand as a production location. Health law certainly If you find any source of income is expected to produce not legitimate. Drugs were suspected and Unsafe to use. Or see the advertisement of websites that sell illegal drugs. Asked to report complaints to the hotline do. Call 0.1556 to do. Will monitor the location hard to arrest and punish the guilty to go.
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