Two plead guilty to steroids charge

A Monroe County doctor and a North Alabama man pleaded guilty to participating in a steroids conspiracy.

Dr. Mark Peter Koch admitted that he sold and consumed anabolic steroids.

From Blog.al.com:

Prosecutors and Koch, who has a troubled history with state medical regulatory authorities, agreed that the conspiracy involved more than 300 grams of steroids.

His attorney, Ken Nixon, declined to comment after the hearing

James Robinson, an attorney for Rivers, said notwithstanding a summary of facts contained in the plea agreement, it is “not necessarily true” that his client was Koch’s supplier of the controversial performance-enhancing drugs.

“He is not the main defendant in the case,” he said. “He was ancillary. And they recognize that.”