The Colonie Police Department is trying to blame anabolic steroids for a man’s bizarre and violent rampage at the Gold’s Gym in Latham. The man went into cardiac arrest and subsequently died after multiple shocks from police stun guns were required to subdue the 6’1″, 240 pound bodybuilder. Police did not know if steroids were involved but specifically requested that a toxicology screen for anabolic steroids be included in the autopsy. [Read more…]
Archives for October 2011
Oct
30
Convicted Steroid Dealer Must Give Up All Assets to Avoid Prison
A convicted steroid dealer was ordered to relinquish his available assets to the government or face 15 months in prison. Broad was busted after police discovered a large quantity of oral and injectable anabolic steroids during the execution of a search warrant in June 2010. Broad pleaded guilty to five counts of possession of anabolic steroids with intent to supply. He was sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid community service. [Read more…]
Oct
29
Steroid Crimes Keep Man from Birth of First Child and Dying Mother
A leader of an underground lab (UGL) manufacturing anabolic steroids based in Lake Charles (Louisiana) was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Jordan Berza, the co-owner of Planet Nutrition, was the organizer of a steroid distribution business that imported raw steroid powders from China and Germany and converted them into private label injectable steroids. Berza and his co-defendants, including his business partner Chris Gass at Planet Nutrition, manufactured and sold over 7,000 ten milliliter vials of various steroids such as testosterone and Deca Durabolin. The steroids were sold throughout the States of Louisiana and Texas. Prosecutors claimed that Planet Nutrition was used as a distribution point from which steroids were shipped to distributors. [Read more…]
Oct
28
“Moneyball” Movie is Not About Steroids to Dismay of Some Sportswriters
“Moneyball” is major motion picture starring Brad Pitt that is based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name. The movie, much like the book, is NOT about the use of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. This has upset some sportswriters, notably Lance Williams. Williams is the co-author (along with Mark Fainaru-Wada) of “The Game of Shadows”; the Williams and Fainaur-Wada book used leaked grand jury testimony from the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) to craft a narrative about the widespread use of steroids by professional baseball players. [Read more…]
Oct
27
No Mercy for Paralympic Athletes Who Use Steroids
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) has announced that paralympic cyclist Gregory Ball has been banned from competition for two years following a positive test result for anabolic steroids. He is also required to pay back A$27,00 in financial grants to the Australian Sports Commission.
Ball tested positive for stanozolol at the Scody Cycling Australia Track National Championships in Sydney on February 4, 2011. Stanozolol is the name of the synthetic anabolic steroid found in the popular bodybuilding drug known as Winstrol. Winstrol is available both as an oral and injectable steroid. [Read more…]
Oct
26
NFL Players are Justified in Distrust of hGH Test Promoted by WADA
The National Football League Players’ Association (NFLPA) has expressed a great deal of skepticism about the reliability of the blood test for human growth hormone (hGH) promoted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The players’ union has agreed, in principle, to implement hGH blood testing as part of the testing for anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. However, they have not been satisfied with the scientific evidence provided for the WADA-backed hGH test. Several experts, who are not directly employed by WADA, believe the distrust of WADA is justified. [Read more…]
Oct
25
Steroids Don’t Work According to South Africa Drug-Free Sports
Khalid Galant, the CEO for the South Africa Institute for Drug-Free Sport, has announced plans to increase the organization’s anti-steroid education programs in the sport of boxing. His message to boxers – steroids don’t work. The performance enhancing benefits of steroids have little impact on boxing performance according to Galant. [Read more…]
Oct
24
Teenager Steroid Dealer Keeps Secret from Parents
The disturbing news about the use of anabolic steroids in teenagers continues in South Africa as a local newspaper interviews a teenager steroid dealer. The Times LIVE in Johannesburg recently interviewed a 16-year old boy they called “Marcus” about steroids in high school. [Read more…]
Oct
23
Cyclist Who Exposed Steroid Use in Cycling Avoids Jail
Cyclist Joe Papp was sentenced to three years probation and six months house arrest for selling performance-enhancing drugs online to amateur and professional athletes. In February 2010, Papp pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to distribute Jintropin-brand human growth hormone (hGH) and Eposino-brand erythropoietin (EPO). He admitted to selling $80,000 worth of the PEDs between September 2006 and September 2007. [Read more…]
Oct
22
Family Steroid Business Gets Police Detective in Trouble
Merseyside Police Detective Paul David Fletcher recently pleaded guilty to six counts involving conspiracy to supply anabolic steroids. Several members of the Fletcher family were also involved in the steroid dealing business. His son Paul Michael Fletcher pleaded guilty to six steroid charges. His nephew shot-putter Carl Fletcher had previously pleaded guilty to possession of steroids with intent to supply back in March 2011. [Read more…]
