Local fitness trainer Scott Lofquist was indicted Thursday for conspiring with a Maryland doctor to sell more than $1.3 million worth of anabolic steroids.
One look at Lofquist's website and anyone can tell that, at 51, he is fit. In fact, the former Olympian has made fitness his business. He co-owns Pilates1901 at 43rd Avenue and State Line Road and he trains at a CrossFit studio in the Crossroads.
The business that got him in trouble, though, is Lifetime Wellness LLC. The website promotes "hormone therapy" and "testosterone therapy" not for body building, but to reduce the signs of aging. It was through that business that the federal indictment alleges Lofquist sold anabolic steroids and synthetic growth hormones for non-medically approved reasons. Lofquist was the owner of Lifetime Wellness LLC at the time. The indictment alleges that he and a partner, who is not indicted, sold 1.2 million units of various anabolic steroids at a retail value of $1.3 million between June 1, 2008 and March 30, 2010.
The ending date marks Lofquist's arrest for a federal indictment in Florida involving the same company and similar allegations.
When KCTV5's Betsy Webster visited his studio on State Line Road on Thursday, she found him training a client and unaware that an indictment had been returned. He did not want to comment on the Missouri federal case but volunteered information on the Florida one. He said he left Lifetime Wellness then and has had no involvement with them or any company connected to them since.
Lofquist said he's currently on probation from the 2010 conviction. Clients Webster met didn't want to comment on camera nor did Lofquist, but Webster said he appeared disturbed to find out what he thought was behind him had come up again.
The specific counts in the indictment reference four transactions on two dates, both of them in 2009.
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