Postal inspectors bust domestic online steroids source.

“There were Tupperware containers all over the place packed full of pills. There were so many, postal inspectors took them to a warehouse in Charlotte to count. I’ve never seen so many pills,” Sheriff’s Drug Detective Aaron Herring said as he described a home along Mill Branch Church Road in Tabor City. Herring said James Douglas Corbett, 44, and Corbett’s wife, Stacy Hardwick Corbett, 41, have been arrested on one count each of possession of anabolic steroids with intent to sell. Authorities seized 43,536 steroid pills, 923 10mm vials in injectable steroids, plus 80 more vials in a UPS package. Herring said he expected U.S. Postal inspectors to bring more charges against the Corbetts who were participating in a program of shipping controlled medication to people who ordered them from an Internet site. Mailed anywhere The pills were shipped in 12 to 20 packages a day, and were mailed from post offices in Tabor City, Clarendon, Shallotte, Leland and Wilmington, plus others. Herring said 350 packages were mailed by the Corbetts during the three months of July through September, according to postal records. “The Corbetts were mailing the packages of steroid pills and testosterone to customers with bogus names, but real addresses,” Herring explained. He said the man and wife never met the person who started them in the business in 2009, and who paid them for their shipping service. Return addresses The pills arrived from China, Great Britain and Canada to addresses in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Wilmington where the Corbetts would receive the packages. Return addresses on the packages would consist of a bogus name of a person or fake business, but to a correct address somewhere in Columbus County. The packages were not to be returned to the Corbett’s home. Herring said he received a tip about the pill service from a person who received a package that couldn’t be delivered and was returned to the innocent person’s home. Herring said some of the medication shipped consisted of injectable steroids, but 95 percent of the business appeared to be handled in pill form. James Corbett’s occupation on the local arrest report showed him as “unemployed.” His wife is a phlebotomist at Southeastern General Hospital in Lumberton, according to Herring.