Man arrested by deputies on steroid possession

A man was recently arrested by Ouachita Parish deputies and accused steroid possession.

Dusty Boyett, 30, of 546 Forest Oaks Road, Monroe, was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on a charge of possession of anabolic steroids.

From Thenewsstar.com:

An arrest affidavit stated deputies were called to Boyett's residence in reference to a reported domestic violence situation.

When deputies arrived, they conducted a pat-down on Boyett out of safety and found a bottle in his pocket. Deputies said they believed the bottle had suspected steroids in it.

Deputies determined the bottle contained Nandrolone Deconate, a form of anabolic steroids, which is a Schedule III narcotic.

Boyett confirmed the bottle had steroids, it was for personal use, and he bought it off the Internet.

Judge cuts Alabama steroids dealer's sentence

Last week, a federal judge in Mobile reduced a steroids dealer’s prison sentence to probation.

Ashley Dewayne Rivers was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William Steele in January to five months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.

From Blog.al.com:

The Monroe County doctor, who pleaded guilty in the case, received a probation sentence last month. Vann’s filing offers no details about Rivers’ cooperation. It asks that Steele reduce the defendant’s sentence to five years’ probation.
The motion for a reduced sentence came just hours after Steele had denied a request by defense attorney James Robinson to change the sentence to probation. Steele wrote in his order that he lacked jurisdiction to change the punishment. That had to come from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In his letter to Steele, Robinson asked that his client be allowed to serve his sentence on probation so that he could work and help support his wife, their four children and his handicapped brother.

The judge however agreed to a request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to change the sentence to five years’ probation.

Ban for Jose Canseco

The former major league star, Jose Canseco, has been suspended from the Mexican League after allegedly refusing to undergo a doping test.

Mexican League president Plinio Escalante said refusing to take a doping test is treated the same as testing positive in the league.

From Espn.go.com:

Quintana Roo Tigers team president Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez says doping-control doctors advised Canseco against taking the test because he was using a medicine to produce testosterone.

He says Canseco already had informed the team he was using the medicine because his body doesn't produce the substance naturally.

Canseco told ESPNDeportes he has a prescription for the testosterone treatment and "can't live without it."

"How can I test positive when I never took any test don't believe everything the media tells you. The truth always comes out I am not using any illegal substance," Canseco tweeted. "Don't be so quick to judge till you here the truth that's a sure sign of ignorance hatred and jealousy."

CSAC suspends Strikeforce champ for steroid use

According to a release by the California State Athletic Commission, Cristiane Justino Santos, the Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion has tested positive for steroids the day before her most devastating profession win.

The featherweight champion, also known as “Cyborg,” tested positive for the anabolic steroid Stanozolol, which is also called Winstrol.

From Uk.eurosport.yahoo.com:

The result of the fight held on the Dec. 17 Strikeforce show at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego has been overturned by the commission and ruled a no contest.

“Our primary concern is for the health and safety of fighters,” CSAC Executive Officer George Dodd said in a press release sent out on Friday.

“Anabolic agents and other banned substances put not only the users of those agents at risk, but their opponents as well. The commission simply will not tolerate their use.”

The test took place on December 16, the day before the featherweight champion knocked out the top competition for the title, Hiroko Yamanaka of Japan, in just a matter of 16 seconds.

Police bureau to conduct exams for steroids

The Portland Police Bureau will go ahead with random drug-testing of officers this year and include examinations for anabolic steroids despite resistance from the police union.

"Frankly, we have bargained this to completion," Yvonne Deckard, director of the city's Bureau of Human Resources said. "This is a very important issue for the City Council and the citizens of Portland."

From Oregonlive.com:

Portland police will join other major law enforcement agencies, such as Phoenix, Dallas, Albuquerque, N.M., Boston and New York police, who include steroids in their random drug tests.

Use of anabolic steroids, which are essentially synthetic forms of testosterone, sometimes results in a significant elevation of male hormones and can lead to violent outbursts and uncontrolled anger, studies have found. Steroids have legitimate medical uses but are frequently abused for illegitimate recreational uses, such as bodybuilding, weightlifting or “bulking up.”

Deckard said she was unable to reach any agreement with the union on the steroid tests despite multiple meetings last year, but cannot delay the testing further. She said she last met with union leaders in November, but couldn't find a date in December acceptable to the union to meet.

The city has already initiated with the task of training officers on the effects of alcohol and medication in the work environment, and is assessing the new policy.

St. Charles County admits to purchase and sale of steroids

Two St. Charles County men have admitted illegally importing human growth hormone and steroids from China according to the U.S. attorney's office. The two men were also engaged in selling them to other bodybuilders in local gyms.

Keith Ashabranner, 32, of O'Fallon, Mo., pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy of possessing and distributing human growth hormone drugs.

From Stltoday.com:

In their pleas, both bodybuilders admitted buying steroids and human growth hormone from China. The men used some of the drugs and sold the rest to other bodybuilders.
The Chinese drugs were shipped here with false customs declarations that claimed they were other, inexpensive goods.
Ashabranner admitted buying roughly $32,000 worth of drugs and making more than $30,000 from the sale of them. Loomans spent roughly $10,000 and made the same amount from their sale.

Loomans may face from probation to six months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines and Ashabranner may face six to 12 months when sentenced May 4.

Officials ignored banned lean meat drug use

A jail term of seven years has been imposed on a former husbandry official in central China's Henan Province for dereliction of duty and embezzlement.

The former department chief of the Jiaxian County agriculture and husbandry bureau, Liu Jinchun, was convicted of forging test reports and siphoning off 70,000 yuan (US$11,109) from subsidies to raisers, the Jiaxian County People's Court said.

From Shanghaidaily.com:

Liu asked raisers to prepare clean pig urine samples ahead of checks by provincial authorities. He also issued quality passes to raisers without supervision, yesterday's Legal Daily reported.

Officials told the court that Liu's department would test pig urine samples before the checks to ensure they were clean. "We sealed the samples in the fridges and heated them when provincial investigators came," they said.

Despite the fact that Henan had repeatedly ordered local authorities to strictly monitor banned chemicals in pig feed, there wasn't a quality investigation department in the Jiaxian bureau, Liu said.

"The records of the daily feeds and drugs are incomplete and bogus. We never checked the raisers and we ignored their illegal behaviors. We just polished the records to deal with the officials from the provincial authorities," Liu told the court.

Pigs tested positive for clenbuterol, a chemical poisonous to humans, which is banned in China and yet continues to appear in the food chain.

Lance Armstrong doping investigation dropped

A stalemate in the debate over how to deal with the use of anabolic steroids in sport could be marked by the decision by US prosecutors to drop a two-year doping investigation of legendary Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong.

The cyclist was being investigated for possible crimes ranging from defrauding the government, conspiring with other cyclists for substance distribution, and trafficking.

From Alaskadispatch.com:

But the decision by US Attorney Andre Birotte on Friday to close the Armstrong investigation comes after a number of high-profile prosecutions managed to raise awareness about the seriousness of doping, but failed to produce significant legal victories against the defendants.

In a 2011 federal trial, retired home run king Barry Bonds escaped serious criminal charges after becoming one of 86 baseball players in the 2007 Mitchell Report linked to doping. Last year, the judge in the Roger Clemens perjury trial quickly declared a mistrial after a prosecutor introduced disallowed evidence to jurors. Clemens is slated for a retrial in April.

In both those cases, the government wasn't trying to prove the sports stars took illegal steroids, but that they lied to investigators – and, in Clemens' case, to Congress – during the investigation.

“The United States Attorney determined that a public announcement concerning the closing of the investigation was warranted by numerous reports about the investigation in media outlets around the world,” US Attorney Andre Birotte said in a statement.

Carvalho admits to steroid injections

Daniel Carvalho, the former Brazil international midfielder, has recently admitted that he received regular injections of anabolic steroids while being a part of Russian club CSKA Moscow.

I was given the drugs because CSKA's medical staff considered me "weak," Carvalho said.

From Itv.com:

"In Russian football there isn't any [anti-]doping," he said. "There were needles put into my vein, and on the sixth or seventh injection I stopped taking them because I discovered that it was going straight into my heart.

"I told them I didn't want to take it any more."

The 28-year-old Brazilian, who was Man of the Match in CSKA's UEFA Cup Final win over Sporting Lisbon in 2005, was initially a hit in Russia, and was capped three times by Brazil in 2006.

But a decline in his performances, amid questions over his physical fitness, have provoked criticism - and Carvalho now blames the doping regime he alleges he was subject to in Moscow.

"I left Brazil thin, very thin," Carvalho said. "Then I went to Russia for six years, and they gave me steroid injections, and after six months I'd put on eight kilos."

Bodybuilder admits to raw steroid imports

A Polish man who formerly ran a gym in Dungannon has admitted to imports of almost two kilos of raw steroids in what a court heard was a “well planned, well organised operation”.

Mariusz Bak, 30, from Castleview Heights, pleaded guilty at Omagh Crown Court to possess the Class C steroids with intent to supply, and also to importing the drugs.

From Tyronetimes.co.uk:

The court was told that from January last year to January this year, officers from the UK Borders Agency and Customs and Excise seized 1.72 kilos of various body building powders at Heathrow Airport, having been sent from China, destined for Bak’s home address.

Prosecuting lawyer Robin Steer told the court that as well as the class-C drugs, officers also intercepted a metal press capable of making “thousands” of tablets in a day, 13,000 printed labels and during searches at Bak’s home, uncovered a receipt for the purchase of 1,086 glass vials and “paper work for the delivery of steroids”.

Arrested in September 2010, Bak, who was running a gym in the town at the time, admitted importing the steroids but claimed the tablet press was to be used to make protein tablets as a body supplement.

Bak was sentenced to a two year jail term that was suspended for three years.