A New Hampshire man with a history of violence and steroid-related arrests has shot five police officers and killed the police chief of the small sea-coastal community of Greenland. Cullen Mutrie was arrested as recently as February for the possession of anabolic steroids according to the Gloucester Times newspaper. [Read more…]
Apr
12
Sports Doctor Anthony Galea Will Not Be Prosecuted by Canadian Authorities
Anthony Galea, a Toronto-based sports doctor, will not be prosecuted in Canada for charges related to selling performance-enhancing drugs according to the Canadian Public Prosecution Service. Galea was a sports medicine pioneer who admitted to routinely smuggling human growth hormone (hGH) and Actovegin into the United States from Canada. [Read more…]
Apr
11
Cincinnati Women Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Helping Fiance Sell Steroids
Jessica Howard of Cincinnati was sentenced to five year in prison for her role as an accomplice in drug ring that trafficked anabolic steroids. Her attorney Frank Schiavone, Jr. claimed that Howard had no involvement whatsoever in the steroid ring. He argued that Howard’s only crime was being engaged to the real mastermind of the operation. [Read more…]
Apr
10
Bodybuilding.com Founder Pleads Guilty to Selling Synthetic Steroids as Supplements
The founder of Bodybuilding.com has pleaded guilty to charges involving the sale of synthetic steroid products as dietary supplements. Ryan DeLuca, who as a young 21-year old entrepreneur, founded Bodybuilding.com in 1999. At his helm, the company has grown into a supplement powerhouse whose annual revenues are in the hundreds of millions. The DeLuca family sold a controlling interest in Bodybuilding.com to Liberty Media for a reported $100 million dollars in 1998. [Read more…]
Apr
08
Mike Wallace’s Death Renews Interest in Roger Clemens Steroid Interview
Mike Wallace, the legendary investigative journalist and long-time co-host of CBS’ 60 Minutes, has died at age 93. Wallace had so many remarkable interviews with world figures over a career that spanned decades. However, most news stories are referring readers to the online video interview of Major League Baseball star Roger Clemens regarding accusations that Clemens used anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (hGH). It was Mike Wallace’s final television appearance. [Read more…]
Apr
07
Britain Doesn’t Change Steroid Laws for the Olympics
Anti-doping officials are frustrated with Britain’s refusal to criminalize the personal use of anabolic steroids as the 2012 Summer Olympics come to London. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has celebrated victories in several countries that have adopted tougher anti-doping legislation. Australia, Canada, China and Italy all enacted either permanent or temporary legislation that increased the penalties for steroid use and trafficking when they were the host country for either the Summer or Winter Olympics. [Read more…]
Apr
06
Competitive Powerlifter Suspended for Dianabol by Police Department
An eight-year veteran police officer with the Clinton Township Police Department (Michigan) was charged with possession of anabolic steroids without a valid prescription. The illegal steroid was identified as methandrostenolone. The drug is more commonly referred to as Dianabol or D-bol. Patrolman Christopher Weaver was suspended from the police force during the course of a two-month internal affairs investigation into his alleged steroid use. [Read more…]
Apr
05
UFC Heavyweight Alistair Overeem Fails Steroid Test
UFC heavyweight contender Alistair Overeem no longer has plausible deniability when it comes to allegations that Overeem has used anabolic steroids to build his massively-muscled physique. For the first time, the number one UFC heavyweight contender has tested positive for anabolic steroids. Many people believed that steroids were the most likely explanation for his dramatic transformation from a 185 pound 17-year old to a 260 pound heavyweight mixed martial artist. The failed steroid test provides further substantiation that Overeem is a steroid user. [Read more…]
Apr
04
Steroid Users Outnumbering Heroin Users at Some Harm Reduction Clinics
The number of anabolic steroid users utilizing the needle exchange services at harm reduction clinics in the United Kingdom has steadily increased in recent years. This has forced clinic employees to learn more about anabolic steroids and other performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs). The percent of steroid users seen as clients has become so significant that some clinics cater exclusively to bodybuilders. Other clinics are gradually shifting their resources and services to better help the steroid user. [Read more…]
Apr
03
Defense Attorney Wants to Blame Kandahar Massacre on Steroids
The defense attorney representing the soldier responsible for murdering 17 civilians, including nine children, in Afghanistan has been reportedly investigating the use of anabolic steroids as a possible legal defense for his client’s actions. Robert Bales, an infantryman with United States Army, has been charged with seventeen counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and six counts of assault for the killings in the villages of Balandi and Alkozai in Afghanistan on March 11, 2012. The incident has become known as the “Kandahar Massacre”. [Read more…]
