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Six Indian wrestlers test positive.
Dealing a body blow to Indian medal hopes at the Commonwealth Games, six wrestlers, including Arjuna awardee Rajiv Tomar, and shot-putter Sourav Vij tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a nasal decongestant in the prohibited list of non-specified substances.
Controlled delivery of steroids package from international source in Cyprus.
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.
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."
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