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
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
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…]
Apr
02
Immigration and Customs Employee May Go to Prison for Selling Steroids
A former detention officer at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids. Richard Eldridge was employed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Gregory Null, conducted an extensive investigation into allegations that prison employees were moonlighting as steroid dealers. [Read more…]
Mar
31
Annual Steroid Seizures Double Again in Australia
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has made more seizures of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (hGH) during the past financial year than any other year in the history of the agency. The Sunday Mail newspaper revealed that steroid seizures have increased over 500 percent over the past five years; the number of parcels containing steroids and hGH double in each of the past two years. [Read more…]
Mar
29
Australian Bodybuilder Pleads Guilty to Importing Three Kilograms of Steroid Powder
An Australian bodybuilder pleaded guilty to three counts of illegally importing anabolic steroids and two counts of possessing anabolic steroids. Brenton Dowell was caught attempting to import over three kilograms of testosterone from China. [Read more…]
Mar
25
Steroid Ringleader Testifies Against Fiancée in Operation Bulk-Up
There are good reasons that individuals who have been indicted on anabolic steroid distribution charges often plead guilty rather than take their case to trial. Jessica Howard learned the hard way on Friday, March 23, 2012. Howard lost her case and was found guilty of trafficking in anabolic steroids and engaging in corrupt activity under Ohio state law. [Read more…]
Mar
22
Anabolic Steroids Blamed for Road Rage Attack in England
The “roid rage” defense strategy has emerged again in Hampshire (England) as a man accused of punching another man in the face during a “road rage” incident appeared before a judge for sentencing. Michael Barton was sentenced to a 6-month suspended jail sentence and £500 compensation to the victim along with £277 for the damage to the victim’s vehicle. [Read more…]
Mar
21
Ringleader’s Wife Goes on Trial in “Operation Bulk-Up” Steroid Case
Jessica Howard will be the first defendant to go on trial from the “Operation Bulk-Up” anabolic steroid investigation in Warren County (Ohio). The investigation was spearheaded by the Warren County Drug Task Force. Thirty-two individuals were arrested as a result of the two-year undercover investigation that centered on steroid distribution at the Countryside YMCA in Lebanon. [Read more…]
