A Nanaimo lacrosse player faces charges after police claim he trafficked steroids throughout Western Canada.
Isaac Harvey Haack, 19, and girlfriend Rachel Irene Krusto, 19, were charged with posses- sion of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
Twenty-one different ana- bolic steroids, valued at $6,400, were seized from a Gold Finch Crescent home, along with two laptops and cellphones. Police also seized a Range Rover.
Haack and Krusto were arrested and the SUV seized outside a Bowen Road gas sta- tion on Saturday, after plain- clothes officers had earlier arranged to buy steroids, according to RCMP.
It is not known how wide- spread the setup might be, said Nanaimo RCMP Const. Gary O'Brien, though he did say hun- dreds of Internet orders were made and shipped.
Social networking sites were used to advertise, say police. Mounties have turned up steroids in Nanaimo before, but such seizures are not frequent.
Haack, at five-foot-10 and 210 pounds, is a player with the Nanaimo Junior A Timbermen and has been with the team since 2009, according to its web- site. T-Men head coach Dave Bremner declined to comment on Monday.
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