Controlled steroids delivery from China.

Controlled international delivery of Strombaject for two unlucky New Jersey residents.

A Clover Hill area man and another from Hillsborough in Somerset County were charged yesterday in connection with receiving anabolic steroids.

According to investigators, Scott R. Jacquish, 32, of Brennan Way in Hillsborough and David M. Reynolds, 31, of Amwell Road in the Clover Hill area were arrested on June 9 after Federal Homeland Security agents notified Hillsborough Police Detectives that an international package addressed to Jacquish containing a quantity of the anabolic steroid Strombaject (Stanozolol) was intercepted and would be turned over to Hillsborough Police for further investigation.

Police said search warrants were executed on Jacquish’s residence, as well Reynolds’ place of business on East Main Street in Somerville.

Jacquish was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, 3rd degree, and Reynolds was charged with attempt to possess a controlled dangerous substance, 3rd degree. Both men were released on their own recognizance.

Hushmail helps US government yet again.

Turns out even employees of the NSA thought Hushmail would keep them safe.

Former Canby cop pleads guilty to steroid, official misconduct charges.

Former Canby police Officer Jason D. Deason pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally possessing anabolic steroids and purchasing the drug while in uniform and on duty.

Deason will be sentenced on Feb. 25 in Clackamas County Circuit Court. He faces a maximum sentence of three years for unlawful possession of a controlled substance and official misconduct.

Deputy District Attorney Michael Wu said he will request 120 days in jail as part of plea agreement. Deason’s attorney, Leonard Kovac Jr., said he will seek a lesser sentence.

Deason, 39, resigned from the police department in July 2008.

One of Deason’s alleged suppliers, Canby resident William J. Traverso, will be tried on theft and unlawful possession of steroids charges on March 30.

Man on probation receives prison for possession.

A judge Thursday sentenced a Casper man to three to five years in prison for felony possession of steroids.

Police arrested Thomas Sage Hallock last October after probation officers said they found steroids at his home.

The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge in December, and Natrona County District Judge Scott Skavdahl announced his sentence Thursday.

According to a police, Hallock, after learning that probation and parole officers were at his residence in October, called his girlfriend and told her to go home and throw several fluid-filled vials in the trash. Probation officers waiting outside the residence watched the woman throw several vials, some of which were labeled “testosterone,” into a trash can outside, along with syringes.

Hallock told officers the steroids allegedly found in the home — approximately 122 grams with packaging — were from the last time he “got busted” and he had yet to dispose of them, according to police.

Steroids used as an excuse for speed addiction in British court case.

“As a very young man he was a bodybuilder and he took steroids to put on bulk. At the same time he took amphetamine because when you reduce the steroids it keeps excess weight off. Twenty years down the line he now finds he has a physical dependence on it.”

Veterinary surgeon from Essex, UK in trouble due to dodgy steroid prescriptions.

The Disciplinary Committee heard evidence from a pharmacist, Mr Noble, to whom Mr Lockyear had presented an incomplete veterinary prescription for 12 ampoules of Sustanon, a prescription-only anabolic steroid for humans, and a further pharmacist, Mr Foskett MRPharmS, who outlined his suspicions that the steroids were in fact for Mr Lockyear’s personal use (Sustanon is a substance which can potentially be misused in relation to body-building). Mr Lockyear had originally claimed the drugs were for general stock at the practice; he later returned with a second prescription, for double the amount of Sustanon, claiming it was for his own dog; later again, he said the prescription was for a friend’s dog.

The dangers of DIY Botox.

EXCLUSIVE The number of people wanting cosmetic procedures is rocketing and some are even injecting themselves with cut-price drugs bought online. But they could end up paying dearly.

Don’t try this at home. Buying black market Botox online and injecting yourself could seriously harm your looks or endanger your life.

And yet those in search of cut-price, wrinkle-smoothing shots are turning to the internet for cheap DIY filler kits – often with devastating results.

Paralysis, lop-sided lips, droopy eyelids, blistered and infected facial sores and even admission to intensive care are some of things that can happen after using dodgy jabs.

Doctors fear it is only a matter of time before someone pays for budget Botox with their life.

Dr Aamer Khan, of London’s Harley Street Medical Skin Clinic, trains medical practitioners to use cosmetic drugs such as Botox. But he believes people are blind to its potentially deadly effects and see only the knock-down price.

“The first thing to say about Botulinum-A Toxin (Botox) is that it is the most toxic substance known to mankind,” says Dr Khan. “One teaspoon could kill 90 billion people. It could wipe out the world’s population, which is why it was considered a biological weapon.
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“Botox has become part of our culture because it’s used cosmetically, but it’s used in tiny, strictly-measured doses and is stringently tested. Using it without anatomical knowledge, without knowing the exact quality of the product, could be fatal.”

In the UK it is illegal to advertise prescription-only medications like Botox, and to sell them without a prescription. But foreign websites can dodge the ban. And after a few clicks on a computer, vials of facial filler drugs complete with syringes can be shipped to your door.

Online pharmacy ads do their best to lure customers, with slogans such as “Wrinkles? No! Savings? Yes!”.

They give false assurances that injecting yourself is easy as well as economical. Don’t know where to stick the syringe? A facial map and online video will point out where to position your needle. Can’t afford the £200-a-shot clinic prices? Buy a kit online for five times cheaper at £350 for 10 DIY jabs.

But what the sites don’t state is that many users go on to spend fortunes with qualified surgeons to correct their botched efforts.

Story from Briton’s Mirror Newspaper.

Jury finds Cleveland police officer guilty of buying steroids illegally.

A jury found Cleveland police Lt. Anthony Tuleta guilty Tuesday of drug possession and theft for illegally purchasing steroids over the Internet and billing his insurance company.

Tuleta, 51, bought the from Dr. Ramon Scruggs, 62, of Santa Ana, Calif., and submitted bills totaling $95,000 to Medical Mutual.

Tuleta was found guilty by a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury of all charges — six counts of drug possession and one count of theft. He was suspended in November without pay from his job after 27 years with the police department. He faces dismissal at a meeting with the Public Safety Director Martin Flask. The meeting had not been scheduled as of Tuesday afternoon.

Tuleta faces up to 24 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 11 by Judge John O’Donnell.

Scruggs was sentenced last month to three years in prison for prescribing steroids for non-medical reasons. He did so from January 2003 through June 2007, Assistant County Prosecutor James Gutierrez said.

Scruggs pleaded guilty to five counts of drug trafficking.

Former Cleveland firefighter Craig Romey, 39, also bought steroids from Scruggs and billed Medical Mutual. He served 30 days of probation after pleading guilty in May to drug possession.

His driver’s license was suspended until Nov. 14. He paid back $22,355 to Medical Mutual and now lives in Las Vegas, according to court records.

Mobile steroids trial nearing end; Applied Pharmacy charged with supplying star athletes.

It included doctors who agreed to write sham prescriptions and dealers who lured customers looking for shortcuts to buffed bodies, a federal prosecutor in Mobile told jurors during closing arguments in a steroids case today.

The lynchpin in the whole conspiracy, Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins argued, was a compounding pharmacy in Mobile where owners reaped millions of dollars in profits by engaging in “illegal and far-reaching” conduct from 2003 until August 2006.

“Each one of them participated in this conspiracy,” she said. “They operated a steroid mill, and they would dispense anabolic steroids to anyone whose credit card was good.”

Dobbins reminded jurors of testimony that the company made millions of dollars by selling anabolic steroids — including some that have been approved only for use in livestock — to customers came from 41 states.

They ranged from star athletes like former major league baseball slugger Jose Canseco and Olympic gold medal wrestler Kurt Angle to teenagers. Dobbins pointed to testimony from a former employee suggesting that Applied Pharmacy’s secretary and part owner, Jason R. Kelley, was well aware of the potential legal problems.