Steroid Arrests

The details of a secret internal affairs investigation codenamed Operation Oklahoma in Australia have been made public several months after its conclusion. The investigation implicated eight police officers as well as local businessman and athletes. The investigation led to the firing and resignations of the “Tamworth four” which included the snitch who provided critical information about the steroid ring to investigators. Ironically, the details of Operation Oklahoma were only made public because the informant at the center of the investigation submitted an application for wrongful termination.

Former Constable Matthew Walsh became a “willing informant” for the New South Wales Police Integrity Commission during their two-year internal affairs investigation of a police network involved in the trafficking of anabolic steroids. Walsh provided assistance to investigators and agreed to provide court testimony against fellow officers implicated in the steroid trafficking ring. The Commission acknowledged his assistance with a “letter of comfort” that confirmed his willingly participation during the investigation. [Read more…]

An anabolic steroids investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and possibly other federal agencies have led to internal affairs probes of steroid use by multiple Massachusetts law enforcement departments. The Pittsfield Police Department and Massachusetts State Police have acknowledged being alerted by an “outside law enforcement agency” that specific officers were involved in purchasing steroids.

Pittsfield Police Officer David P. Kirchner, a narcotics investigator with the Berkshire County Drug Task Force, was suspended and demoted in rank to a patrol officers after reaching an agreement with the department. An internal probe by the Pittsfield Police determined that Kirchner violated two of the department’s rules and regulations i.e. “criminal conduct” and “conduct unbecoming of an officer”. [Read more…]

Former Department of Public Safety Trooper Jeff Jerman was sentenced to 90 to 180 days in jail after pleading guilty to the delivery of anabolic steroids, a controlled substance. The second-degree felonies involved the delivery of $800 worth of the anabolic steroids trenbolone, nandrolone and stanozolol to a Kerrville Police Officer in a steroid deal in the local H-E-B parking lot on September 7, 2009. [Read more…]

The existence of the so-called phenomena of “roid rage” has taken on a life of its own in popular culture. Most people seem to think that uncontrolled and irrational aggression is a common, if not unavoidable, side effect of anabolic steroids. However,  the causal link between anabolic steroids and aggression in humans is tenuous. There is a notably lack of a scientific support for the existence of “roid rage”;  if roid rage exists at all, it occurs in a small minority of steroid users.

This hysteria over roid rage has been responsible for several ill-informed legislative proposals. [Read more…]

An off-duty Jersey City police officer was involved in fatal traffic accident that resulted in the death of an 82-year old woman. Rick Garrison received traffic summons for careless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident and failure to observe a traffic signal after the car he was driving crashed into seven parked and moving vehicles at a high rate of speed. His car rear-ended an SUV that resulted in the fatality.

The New Jersey Star-Ledger suggests that anabolic steroids may have played a role in the fatal crash. [Read more…]