The University of Waterloo football program lies in ruins, and the names of the individuals alleged to be responsible for its destruction continue to surface.
Named Friday were two more of the nine who either failed doping control tests administered to 61 of the 62 athletes on the team or admitted use of performance-enhancing drugs. (One player refused to participate and was thereby handed an anti-doping rule violation.) The two identified Friday in a conference call with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport were third-year linebacker Matt Peto of Strathroy and first-year linebacker Eric Polini of Thunder Bay. Peto admitted to steroid use two days before testing and received a one-year sanction.
Polini admitted his use on March 31 when CCES conducted tests on the team. He received a two-year sanction. They joined Joe Surgenor and Jordan Meredith, who were identified previously and hit with two-year sanctions.
So far, three players and one former player are facing criminal charges in conjunction with what is being called the most significant steroids scandal in the history of Canadian university sport.
Receiver Nathan Zettler was arrested on charges of drug trafficking, which led to the entire Waterloo team being tested, Since then teammates Matthew Valeriote and Brandon Krukowski and former Warrior Eric Legare also have been charged.
The five oustanding positive tests have yet to sign their waiver and accept the anti-doping rule violation and the proposed sanctions, according to Paul Melia, president and CEO of CCES.
CCES has conducted more than 50 out-of-season, unannounced tests of players from university football programs across the country since the Waterloo scandal was unearthed.
The hope is to test at least one athlete from every football program in Canada by the time the 2010 season begins.
"(We want) to try to access how broad and how deep this use of prohibited substances in the CIS in the sport of football might be," Melia said. "Again trying to answer the question, 'Is it an isolated incident restricted to the Waterloo football program or is it more widespread?'"
In addition to the 61 urine tests carried out on March 31, CCES also conducted 20 blood tests, it was revealed Friday. Blood testing determines the presence of certain substances not detectable in urine like blood transfusions, synthetic EPO and human growth hormone.
One of those blood samples was a failed test or, as the scientists call it, an adverse analytical finding. The failed blood test was turned in by one of those players responsible for the nine positive urine tests so the cheat count remains at nine.
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Gay Games welcomes drug using bodybuilders.
My name is Dustin Robertson, 34, aka Aviddiva. I’m 6 feet tall, 225 pounds. I’ve competed in bodybuilding as a hobby for many years. What I enjoy most about competing is the discipline.
Getting into condition forces me to take my body the entire way down to my lowest body fat percentage. It feels great and it’s always fun to show off all my hard work in the gym. I can’t wait to show off my muscle on the dance floor at the opening party of the Gay Games. This will be my first Gay Games. I’m excited to meet other gay athletes from around the world.
At one point, I canceled my trip after the Gay Games wrote to explain that they would be drug testing for bodybuilding. I wouldn’t pass these drug tests, as I am a competitive bodybuilder who does use steroids and supplements, as do my competitors here in the U.S. within the division in which I compete.
I am scheduled to compete before in LA at the NPC Los Angeles Bodybuilding Competition on July 24 where they do not test for drugs. After canceling my plans to compete at the Gay Games, I got a call from the Gay Games saying they had successfully petitioned to make a separate category for visiting competitors for those bodybuilders who would not pass the drug tests. So my trip is back on.
Getting into condition forces me to take my body the entire way down to my lowest body fat percentage. It feels great and it’s always fun to show off all my hard work in the gym. I can’t wait to show off my muscle on the dance floor at the opening party of the Gay Games. This will be my first Gay Games. I’m excited to meet other gay athletes from around the world.
At one point, I canceled my trip after the Gay Games wrote to explain that they would be drug testing for bodybuilding. I wouldn’t pass these drug tests, as I am a competitive bodybuilder who does use steroids and supplements, as do my competitors here in the U.S. within the division in which I compete.
I am scheduled to compete before in LA at the NPC Los Angeles Bodybuilding Competition on July 24 where they do not test for drugs. After canceling my plans to compete at the Gay Games, I got a call from the Gay Games saying they had successfully petitioned to make a separate category for visiting competitors for those bodybuilders who would not pass the drug tests. So my trip is back on.
Prosecutors want Applied Pharmacy Services Doctor's sentence halved.
Federal prosecutors in Mobile asked a federal judge last week to cut almost in half a Colorado doctor's prison sentence on a steroids conviction, which would make him eligible for release soon.
Kelly Wade Tucker pleaded guilty to dispensing steroids outside the course of professional practice, admitting that in 2005 he signed off on steroids prescriptions -- for a fee of $100 each -- prepared by the owner of an anti-aging clinic that had customers across the country.
U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade sentenced Tucker a year ago this month to a year and nine months in prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins wrote in a court filing that Tucker deserves a sentence reduction for his testimony in a five-week steroids trial in January. During the trial, Tucker identified and explained documents, including the order forms prepared by Infinite Health owner Brett W. Branch.
Those steroids prescriptions were sent to Applied Pharmacy Services, an online pharmacy in Mobile, which filled the orders and shipped the drugs.
A jury in Mobile convicted Branch and four men connected to the pharmacy in February.
"Tucker was an important and credible witness as he explained his association with Brett Branch, Infinite Health, and others," Dobbins wrote.
Without the reduction, Tucker is scheduled to be released in March.
Kelly Wade Tucker pleaded guilty to dispensing steroids outside the course of professional practice, admitting that in 2005 he signed off on steroids prescriptions -- for a fee of $100 each -- prepared by the owner of an anti-aging clinic that had customers across the country.
U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade sentenced Tucker a year ago this month to a year and nine months in prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins wrote in a court filing that Tucker deserves a sentence reduction for his testimony in a five-week steroids trial in January. During the trial, Tucker identified and explained documents, including the order forms prepared by Infinite Health owner Brett W. Branch.
Those steroids prescriptions were sent to Applied Pharmacy Services, an online pharmacy in Mobile, which filled the orders and shipped the drugs.
A jury in Mobile convicted Branch and four men connected to the pharmacy in February.
"Tucker was an important and credible witness as he explained his association with Brett Branch, Infinite Health, and others," Dobbins wrote.
Without the reduction, Tucker is scheduled to be released in March.
Phoenix police officer gets suspended for five days over steroids.
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As a pro football player, Cedric Tillman used steroidlike supplements in the locker room.
But the first time he ever tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, he lost a different job - as a Phoenix police officer.
The former Arizona Rattlers wide receiver appealed his firing this year and on Thursday was given a five-day suspension instead of termination because of questions surrounding the legally purchased drugs he blamed for a false-positive test.
Through the appeal process, lawyers raised concerns about how the Phoenix Police Department tests its officers for strength-building supplements sold online and in nutrition stores. In many cases, products are advertised as legal anabolic steroids. The department tests for a chemical reaction rather than specific supplements.
Police Chief Jack Harris defended the department's steroid policy as a clear, zero-tolerance approach to cutting performance-enhancing drugs out of its ranks. Officers have been educated since 2004 on the potentially dangerous side effects of steroid use, including major psychological conditions that could adversely impact residents on the street.
Tillman, 40, is the second officer to earn his job back this year after testing positive for Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid popular with athletes. He and another officer who earned his job back in March claimed they were unaware supplements that they purchased legally could metabolize into an illegal substance such as Nandrolone or lead to a positive test.
Harris said he was disappointed with the decisions made by the Phoenix Civil Service Board, the citizens panel that voted to reinstate both officers. Tillman had tested "off the charts," or nearly 90 times the police department's allowable limit for Nandrolone, due to squirting a steroidlike liquid under his tongue with a syringe, investigators said.
Any trace of an illegal substance such as Nandrolone, Harris said, is sufficient evidence to uphold an officer's termination. He disagreed that the department policy would need to be changed, though officers could be retrained to avoid similar appeals.
"I am completely confident that if that was any other dangerous drug other than steroids, they would have upheld the firing because with steroids, they don't seem to hold that as a dangerous drug," Harris said. "I don't understand their decision. I don't want officers to think it's OK to take steroids and endanger their own lives."
Tillman declined comment through Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, which has cautioned rank-and-file officers to beware of legally purchased supplements and urged a more specific policy similar to the NFL's, which lists banned substances by name.
Attorneys and Civil Service Board members cited the investigation into Phoenix Officer Carl Ramirez as a factor in their decision to reinstate Tillman. Ramirez appealed his 2008 termination, also citing store-bought supplements as a reason for his positive urine test. In March, he received a 30-day suspension and returned to his job on a Cactus Park Precinct neighborhood-enforcement team.
Tillman denied using anything illegal but admitted buying supplements labeled as "the closest you can get" to legally taking anabolic steroids.
Canadian press investigates online steroid dealing.
( funny thing is all their screen shots are of sites that sell supplements with names designed to trick buyers into thinking they are real steroids )
Forget locker-room deals, stuffed gym bags and whispered words from a muscle bound man.
There’s a much simpler way to buy the kind of performance enhancing drugs that brought down the University of Waterloo’s football team – with a credit card and access to the internet.
Ordering steroids and human growth hormone through websites has become the single biggest way that those drugs are bought and sold, says the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
It’s a multimillion-dollar shadow industry that is highly illegal, and very hard to police. And it’s shipping its dangerous products to a mailbox near you.
Last year alone, agents with the Canadian Border Services Agency seized tens of thousands of dollars worth of steroids and growth hormone en route to mailing addresses in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. Records of those seizures, obtained through federal Access to Information legislation, show that the postal service has become the new pipeline for dealers trying get their products past authorities to demanding customers.
Some of the seized local shipments were as small as two glass vials of testosterone and boldenone, a type of steroid typically used for horses – worth about $100. Others packages that caught the eye of X-ray scanners at the border agency’s mail processing facility in Toronto included 950 pills of methandienone, an anabolic steroid used to aid muscle growth.
A typical order to a Kitchener address was 500 yellow, diamond-shaped pills of Stanozolol – the steroid linked to sports doping scandals from Ben Johnson to Barry Bonds. Another seizure was of 500 Methanoplex tablets, a potent steroid that can cause estrogen-like effects in men.
The seizures – which experts say are just a drop in the bucket in the river flowing into Canada – show just how common ordering from steroid websites has become. With names like steroid.com, buysteroids.com and roidstore.com, they operate out in the open like any other online retailer. Except, of course, they’re illegal.
“This is a lot bigger than most people realize. It’s dirt cheap and it just comes in the mail,” said Dusty Payne, a Washington, DC-based expert on steroids with the U.S. drug enforcement agency. “The biggest way people are selling steroids now is through these websites.”
In Canada and the U.S., buying steroids without a prescription is against the law. But that hasn’t stopped hundreds of websites from popping up, offering huge inventories of the drugs at rock-bottom prices, no questions asked. The operators of these websites are constantly on the move, trying to avoid authorities. Some maintain dozens of domain names as a virtual front for their basement and garage laboratories, making them hard to trace.
Many websites buy their product in raw form from China, repackage it and ship it off to addresses across North America. If your order is stopped by customs officers, don’t sweat it, they say. They’ll simply send out another one.
The risk is worth it to these websites because the markup on the drugs is so high, sometimes as much as 30 times.
“A lot of people picked up on that. They figured out they can deal with China directly, and they’re going to ship me a ton of steroids for next to nothing, pennies almost,” Payne said.
Investigators say the online steroid industry is simply too big and too mobile to stop, and there are far more high-profile drugs that get more resources and public attention.
In 2007, American drug agents, working with Canadian police, busted 56 steroid labs across the U.S. It was the largest steroid crackdown is U.S. history, seizing $11.4 million worth of steroids, $6.5 million in cash and 242 kilograms of raw steroid powder from China.
But even that was just a bump in the road for the booming black market industry.
The problem is steroid and growth hormone use is no longer just the realm of professional athletes, body builders and wrestlers. Now, many users are just guys (and some girls) who just want to look strong with less effort.
Tens of thousands of these casual users are believed to be behind a spike in seizures of illegal mail-order steroids by Canada’s border officials. Last year, 1,920 courier and mail shipments of steroids were stopped at Canada’s three international mail processing centres. In 2008, the Canada Border Services Agency seized 1,624 shipments of foreign-made steroids that Canadians tried to have mailed into the country.
That’s not to speak of the volume of steroids and growth hormone sent through domestic mail warehouses, driven across the border or smuggled through airports. There were 2,609 seizures of steroids stopped at all international entry points last year, up from 926 in 2004, according to Canada’s border agency.
When there is a seizure in the mail, the sender, receiver and police are notified. The border agency holds onto the steroids until they can be destroyed by the RCMP or Health Canada.
But sending steroids through the mail is hardly a foreign enterprise. Plenty of these websites are based in Canada, too.
In 2008, police shut down a Kitchener-based mail-order steroids company run by Fernando Reis. It was Canada’s largest steroid seizure, a profitable business that used multiple storage units and several houses around town. Reis’s steroid shipping enterprise unravelled when a customs officer at the Canada Border Services Agency found a suspicious package that was addressed to Reis.
The package actually contained knockoff Viagra, but it unravelled a steroid and prescription drug operation that was selling “health and nutrition” supplements to customers around the world. Reis was sentenced to 22 months in jail and two years on parole.
Authorities, meanwhile, agree with officials around the disgraced Waterloo Warriors teams who say the problem of steroid and growth hormone abuse is far more widespread than most of us think.
“Steroid abuse is still a lot more significant than people realize. A lot more people do steroids than you think,” Payne said.
Health Canada is concerned about these websites, warning that there’s no guarantee you’re getting what you’re paying for. Some of these steroid labs produce their shipments in bathroom sinks and tubs, with absolutely no sanitary controls. Never mind that steroids can have severe side effects for users, from kidney disease to heart problems.
Not that you’ll find much negative news about steroids or growth hormone on any of those illegal websites. Or any information about the people behind them, either. Very few offer any way to contact the operators.
One company that does, Houston-based Anabolic Research LLC, the enterprise behind the Roid Store and Steroid. com websites, lists a phone number that is disconnected. Parkes said that’s typical.
“They can be really elusive, and it’s really hard to find the body behind the server,” Payne said. “They know how to stay hidden.”
Forget locker-room deals, stuffed gym bags and whispered words from a muscle bound man.
There’s a much simpler way to buy the kind of performance enhancing drugs that brought down the University of Waterloo’s football team – with a credit card and access to the internet.
Ordering steroids and human growth hormone through websites has become the single biggest way that those drugs are bought and sold, says the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
It’s a multimillion-dollar shadow industry that is highly illegal, and very hard to police. And it’s shipping its dangerous products to a mailbox near you.
Last year alone, agents with the Canadian Border Services Agency seized tens of thousands of dollars worth of steroids and growth hormone en route to mailing addresses in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. Records of those seizures, obtained through federal Access to Information legislation, show that the postal service has become the new pipeline for dealers trying get their products past authorities to demanding customers.
Some of the seized local shipments were as small as two glass vials of testosterone and boldenone, a type of steroid typically used for horses – worth about $100. Others packages that caught the eye of X-ray scanners at the border agency’s mail processing facility in Toronto included 950 pills of methandienone, an anabolic steroid used to aid muscle growth.
A typical order to a Kitchener address was 500 yellow, diamond-shaped pills of Stanozolol – the steroid linked to sports doping scandals from Ben Johnson to Barry Bonds. Another seizure was of 500 Methanoplex tablets, a potent steroid that can cause estrogen-like effects in men.
The seizures – which experts say are just a drop in the bucket in the river flowing into Canada – show just how common ordering from steroid websites has become. With names like steroid.com, buysteroids.com and roidstore.com, they operate out in the open like any other online retailer. Except, of course, they’re illegal.
“This is a lot bigger than most people realize. It’s dirt cheap and it just comes in the mail,” said Dusty Payne, a Washington, DC-based expert on steroids with the U.S. drug enforcement agency. “The biggest way people are selling steroids now is through these websites.”
In Canada and the U.S., buying steroids without a prescription is against the law. But that hasn’t stopped hundreds of websites from popping up, offering huge inventories of the drugs at rock-bottom prices, no questions asked. The operators of these websites are constantly on the move, trying to avoid authorities. Some maintain dozens of domain names as a virtual front for their basement and garage laboratories, making them hard to trace.
Many websites buy their product in raw form from China, repackage it and ship it off to addresses across North America. If your order is stopped by customs officers, don’t sweat it, they say. They’ll simply send out another one.
The risk is worth it to these websites because the markup on the drugs is so high, sometimes as much as 30 times.
“A lot of people picked up on that. They figured out they can deal with China directly, and they’re going to ship me a ton of steroids for next to nothing, pennies almost,” Payne said.
Investigators say the online steroid industry is simply too big and too mobile to stop, and there are far more high-profile drugs that get more resources and public attention.
In 2007, American drug agents, working with Canadian police, busted 56 steroid labs across the U.S. It was the largest steroid crackdown is U.S. history, seizing $11.4 million worth of steroids, $6.5 million in cash and 242 kilograms of raw steroid powder from China.
But even that was just a bump in the road for the booming black market industry.
The problem is steroid and growth hormone use is no longer just the realm of professional athletes, body builders and wrestlers. Now, many users are just guys (and some girls) who just want to look strong with less effort.
Tens of thousands of these casual users are believed to be behind a spike in seizures of illegal mail-order steroids by Canada’s border officials. Last year, 1,920 courier and mail shipments of steroids were stopped at Canada’s three international mail processing centres. In 2008, the Canada Border Services Agency seized 1,624 shipments of foreign-made steroids that Canadians tried to have mailed into the country.
That’s not to speak of the volume of steroids and growth hormone sent through domestic mail warehouses, driven across the border or smuggled through airports. There were 2,609 seizures of steroids stopped at all international entry points last year, up from 926 in 2004, according to Canada’s border agency.
When there is a seizure in the mail, the sender, receiver and police are notified. The border agency holds onto the steroids until they can be destroyed by the RCMP or Health Canada.
But sending steroids through the mail is hardly a foreign enterprise. Plenty of these websites are based in Canada, too.
In 2008, police shut down a Kitchener-based mail-order steroids company run by Fernando Reis. It was Canada’s largest steroid seizure, a profitable business that used multiple storage units and several houses around town. Reis’s steroid shipping enterprise unravelled when a customs officer at the Canada Border Services Agency found a suspicious package that was addressed to Reis.
The package actually contained knockoff Viagra, but it unravelled a steroid and prescription drug operation that was selling “health and nutrition” supplements to customers around the world. Reis was sentenced to 22 months in jail and two years on parole.
Authorities, meanwhile, agree with officials around the disgraced Waterloo Warriors teams who say the problem of steroid and growth hormone abuse is far more widespread than most of us think.
“Steroid abuse is still a lot more significant than people realize. A lot more people do steroids than you think,” Payne said.
Health Canada is concerned about these websites, warning that there’s no guarantee you’re getting what you’re paying for. Some of these steroid labs produce their shipments in bathroom sinks and tubs, with absolutely no sanitary controls. Never mind that steroids can have severe side effects for users, from kidney disease to heart problems.
Not that you’ll find much negative news about steroids or growth hormone on any of those illegal websites. Or any information about the people behind them, either. Very few offer any way to contact the operators.
One company that does, Houston-based Anabolic Research LLC, the enterprise behind the Roid Store and Steroid. com websites, lists a phone number that is disconnected. Parkes said that’s typical.
“They can be really elusive, and it’s really hard to find the body behind the server,” Payne said. “They know how to stay hidden.”
Corrections officer sentenced to community service for steroids.
A former county corrections officer who admitted to possessing steroids was sentenced to 150 hours of community service this morning.
Zachary T. Lazore, 23, of 87 Whitesboro St., Utica, was sentenced by County Court Judge Barry M. Donalty to 150 hours of service and five years probation on charges of three counts of fifth-degree possession and two counts of fifth-degree sale of a controlled substance.
A co-defendant and fellow corrections officer, Peter P. DiNardo, 42, of Floyd Avenue, Deerfield, is scheduled for trial on similar charges on July 26.
According to the indictment, both men sold the anabolic steroid Oxymetholone in Utica on July 22, 2009. Lazore is also accused of selling the steroid Stanozolo in Yorkville on July 31 and Aug. 10.
Zachary T. Lazore, 23, of 87 Whitesboro St., Utica, was sentenced by County Court Judge Barry M. Donalty to 150 hours of service and five years probation on charges of three counts of fifth-degree possession and two counts of fifth-degree sale of a controlled substance.
A co-defendant and fellow corrections officer, Peter P. DiNardo, 42, of Floyd Avenue, Deerfield, is scheduled for trial on similar charges on July 26.
According to the indictment, both men sold the anabolic steroid Oxymetholone in Utica on July 22, 2009. Lazore is also accused of selling the steroid Stanozolo in Yorkville on July 31 and Aug. 10.
Two more Canadian football players suspended for steroid use.
Two more University of Waterloo football players have been suspended for use of performance enhancing drugs.
The suspension of linebackers Matt Peto and Eric Polini was announced today by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the organization that conducted drug tests on the entire UW football team.
Peto, a third-year linebacker from Strathroy, received a reduced one-year suspension from Canadian Interuniversity Sport because he acknowledged use of steroids on March 29, prior to players being notified of team-wide testing on March 31.
Polini, a first-year linebacker from Thunder Bay, received a two-year ban as he waited until the tests were being carried out to admit that he had used steroids.
The suspension of linebackers Matt Peto and Eric Polini was announced today by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the organization that conducted drug tests on the entire UW football team.
Peto, a third-year linebacker from Strathroy, received a reduced one-year suspension from Canadian Interuniversity Sport because he acknowledged use of steroids on March 29, prior to players being notified of team-wide testing on March 31.
Polini, a first-year linebacker from Thunder Bay, received a two-year ban as he waited until the tests were being carried out to admit that he had used steroids.
New test for human growth hormone detects it for two weeks after your last injection.
A new test that provides a breakthrough in detecting human growth hormone in blood is expected to become available soon and make it more difficult for athletes to use HGH without getting caught.
It's a test some experts consider so good, however, it could blunt the push for the urine-based test sought by some in baseball and football, possibly stalling promising research that has already cost many thousands of dollars.
The new test, called a biomarkers test, scans the blood for chemicals the body produces after HGH use, which are detectable for up to two weeks. The test, expected to be available in the coming weeks or months, is a complement to - or maybe an improvement over - the current test, called an isoform test, which scans blood for synthetic HGH.
The isoform test detects synthetic HGH in the blood for only about 48 hours after use, making it easier for users to avoid detection.
It's a test some experts consider so good, however, it could blunt the push for the urine-based test sought by some in baseball and football, possibly stalling promising research that has already cost many thousands of dollars.
The new test, called a biomarkers test, scans the blood for chemicals the body produces after HGH use, which are detectable for up to two weeks. The test, expected to be available in the coming weeks or months, is a complement to - or maybe an improvement over - the current test, called an isoform test, which scans blood for synthetic HGH.
The isoform test detects synthetic HGH in the blood for only about 48 hours after use, making it easier for users to avoid detection.
New info on the Ohio domestic steroids bust.
( Here's a little more info on yesterday's domestic steroids bust in Ohio)
A preliminary hearing is set for Tuesday for a Perrysburg man charged with possessing and manufacturing suspected anabolic steroid drugs.
The drugs and money were found during a search Wednesday of the home of Mr. Kreuz. He is being held in the Wood County jail on a bond of $250,000.
Chief Gilmore said Mr. Kreuz is believed to be a distributor whose customers extend well beyond the Perrysburg area. "This was primarily a distributor, but the charges haven't come to that yet," he explained.
"We haven't gotten to his computer yet. We haven't gotten to his customers."
He declined to specify how the investigation started.
"We've been working on it for quite a few months, and the investigation led to enough probable cause to get a search warrant and an arrest warrant," he said.
The police raid and arrest surprised neighbors, who said they did not notice a lot of traffic to and from Mr. Kreuz's house.
Another nearby neighbor, Jeffry Coleman, 47, said he and his son were going fishing yesterday when they saw police officers wearing gloves and carrying what he thought were metal detectors in the neighborhood.
A preliminary hearing is set for Tuesday for a Perrysburg man charged with possessing and manufacturing suspected anabolic steroid drugs.
The drugs and money were found during a search Wednesday of the home of Mr. Kreuz. He is being held in the Wood County jail on a bond of $250,000.
Chief Gilmore said Mr. Kreuz is believed to be a distributor whose customers extend well beyond the Perrysburg area. "This was primarily a distributor, but the charges haven't come to that yet," he explained.
"We haven't gotten to his computer yet. We haven't gotten to his customers."
He declined to specify how the investigation started.
"We've been working on it for quite a few months, and the investigation led to enough probable cause to get a search warrant and an arrest warrant," he said.
The police raid and arrest surprised neighbors, who said they did not notice a lot of traffic to and from Mr. Kreuz's house.
Another nearby neighbor, Jeffry Coleman, 47, said he and his son were going fishing yesterday when they saw police officers wearing gloves and carrying what he thought were metal detectors in the neighborhood.
Domestic steroids source / Underground lab from Ohio busted.
( oddly no pictures in the press showing the brand of steroids they found )
A Perrysburg man has been arrested and charged with drug possession and manufacturing drugs after police seized over $1 million worth of suspected steroids from his home.
Greg A Kreuz, 39, of 1903 Coe, is being held in the Wood County Jail after police raided his home and found a large amount of suspected anabolic steroids and cash. The raid came after months of investigation by Perrysburg Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Authorities say the street value of the drugs seized in Kreuz's home is estimated to be over $1 million. Kreuz has been charged with two counts of possession of drugs and one count of manufacturing drugs.
A Perrysburg man has been arrested and charged with drug possession and manufacturing drugs after police seized over $1 million worth of suspected steroids from his home.
Greg A Kreuz, 39, of 1903 Coe, is being held in the Wood County Jail after police raided his home and found a large amount of suspected anabolic steroids and cash. The raid came after months of investigation by Perrysburg Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Authorities say the street value of the drugs seized in Kreuz's home is estimated to be over $1 million. Kreuz has been charged with two counts of possession of drugs and one count of manufacturing drugs.
Kong Labs steroids gang sentenced.
Brandon Joseph Millay, age 43, Jimmie Lynn Garrison, age 43, and Mary Kay Hamilton, age 32, all of Owensboro, and Kevin Seth Revelette, age 38, of Greenville, Kentucky, have been sentenced on steroid related charges in United States District Court.
Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced Millay, a former professor at Kentucky Community and Technical College in Owensboro, to two years in prison for conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids, operating an unregistered establishment for processing and packaging anabolic steroids, and misbranding anabolic steroids.
Revelette, the 2006 Mr. Kentucky body building champion, was sentenced to two years for conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids.
Garrison was sentenced to year home confinement followed by two additional years of probation for conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids and obstructing a federal criminal investigation.
Hamilton was sentenced to two years' probation for obstructing a federal criminal investigation. Millay and Revelette were also sentenced to 2 years' supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system.
Millay, Revelette and Garrison had pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids between October 2006 and April 2008.
Federal officials say Millay imported raw anabolic steroid powder from China and had some of those shipments delivered to Garrison and others. In his home, Millay processed the steroid powder into injectable liquid form, and bottled the steroids. Millay then sold the steroids in Owensboro and online to others.
Millay and Revelette supplied each other with steroids and assisted one another in identifying sources of supply. On May 6, 2008, government lawyers say Garrison and Hamilton obstructed the federal criminal investigation by concealing steroid related materials from federal agents.
Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced Millay, a former professor at Kentucky Community and Technical College in Owensboro, to two years in prison for conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids, operating an unregistered establishment for processing and packaging anabolic steroids, and misbranding anabolic steroids.
Revelette, the 2006 Mr. Kentucky body building champion, was sentenced to two years for conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids.
Garrison was sentenced to year home confinement followed by two additional years of probation for conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids and obstructing a federal criminal investigation.
Hamilton was sentenced to two years' probation for obstructing a federal criminal investigation. Millay and Revelette were also sentenced to 2 years' supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system.
Millay, Revelette and Garrison had pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids between October 2006 and April 2008.
Federal officials say Millay imported raw anabolic steroid powder from China and had some of those shipments delivered to Garrison and others. In his home, Millay processed the steroid powder into injectable liquid form, and bottled the steroids. Millay then sold the steroids in Owensboro and online to others.
Millay and Revelette supplied each other with steroids and assisted one another in identifying sources of supply. On May 6, 2008, government lawyers say Garrison and Hamilton obstructed the federal criminal investigation by concealing steroid related materials from federal agents.
Anthony Roberts Online reports "Kong Labs ( Brandon Millay ) is a confirmed snitch"
His post can be found via google's cache as that old blog was seized.
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