Unsealed legal documents give more info on Californian UG steroids lab.

Simi Valley police seized liquid steroids, an electric pill press machine and other items while serving a 2009 search warrant in a steroid manufacturing investigation of Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy's son, unsealed court documents show.

The search warrant was served at two Simi Valley locations where Peter Foy II's defense attorney, Ron Bamieh, said his client "was known to reside." Police also searched a truck.

Bamieh said he did not know whether one of the locations was the senior Foy's residence, but the address matches the one listed by the supervisor as his home on a California Fair Political Practices Commission form filed last year.

Among the items seized by police were a bank statement belonging to the senior Foy and the title to a truck in his name. Court documents do not specify from which location the items were seized.

The county supervisor did not return calls to The Star seeking comment.

The younger Foy, 33, was arrested in December 2009 and charged in July with the illegal manufacturing and sale of HGH, a human growth hormone, which bodybuilders and others use. Foy is a personal trainer.

He has pleaded not guilty to the felony charges and remains free on his own recognizance pending the case's resolution.

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Brian Back last month granted The Star's request to unseal an inventory of the items police seized but denied the newspaper's request to unseal the search warrant affidavit. The affidavit is a sworn declaration police filed with the court in 2009 to support their request for a search warrant, detailing the investigation and evidence.

Among the items police seized after getting the search warrant were liquid steroids, liquids and powders believed to be steroids, an electric pill press — a machine used to produce pills — syringes, handwritten notes about steroids and nearly $4,000 in cash, according to the inventory.

Other confiscated items were a handgun, ammunition, a cellphone, the younger Foy's passport, a ledger of gambling debts and a floor safe.

"To whom they belong, I am not sure," Bamieh said of the seized items. "The issue with Mr. Foy's case is, legally speaking, defense-wise, the conduct of the police officers and promises made that were not kept. And those issues will be litigated in due time, and those will be the issues resolving the case."

Bamieh, who represents The Star on First Amendment issues, declined to provide more details.

The prosecutor in the case is California Deputy Attorney General Diana Callaghan. She did not return calls seeking comment. Her office took over prosecution at the request of the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, which recused itself to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

District Attorney Greg Totten and the county supervisor are friends and political allies, Chief Assistant District Attorney James Ellison has said. The two have endorsed each other's campaigns, and Foy has contributed money to Totten's campaign.

The younger Foy faces a preliminary hearing March 26 on four felony counts — conspiracy to commit a crime, possession for sale of a controlled substance, manufacturing HGH and maintaining a place to sell or use controlled substances. If convicted, he could be sentenced to state prison.

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