Posts Tagged ‘drug abuse’

Shawn M. Boal, 38, former Akron police sergeant, pleaded guilty to charges of possession of steroids.

Boal was placed on probation for eighteen months and ordered to obtain medical treatment.

From Ohio.com:

He pleaded guilty to felony possession of drugs and one misdemeanor count of possessing drug abuse instruments.

Summit County Common Pleas Judge Judy Hunter imposed the sentence.

Boal resigned from the department Monday.

Two other Akron police officers were placed on leave last year during an internal investigation into the use of anabolic steroids within the department.

Boal and street officers Anthony Sutton and Paul Achberger were arrested in June on steroids-related charges.

Sutton, 50, and Achberger, 40, pleaded guilty in November to misdemeanor charges in Akron Municipal Court. They are seeking treatment, and if successful, the charges would be dropped.

Akron police are not tested for steroids.

Actor Dustin Diamond, in a surprising revelation, has hinted that his former “Saved by the Bell” co-star Mark-Paul Gosselaar was on steroids for beefing physique during his stint on the hit show of the 1990s.

Diamond, in his tell-all memoir, spills exclusive details about the off-screen sexual encounters between the high school actors, their hard partying ways, and alleged drug abuse.

From UK.News.Yahoo.com:

Diamond writes, “I just can’t help but think of all the off-camera drinking and recreational drugs being indulged by cast members during that time… I could smell a certain ’smoke’ wafting from the crack (underneath castmates’ dressing room doors).”

He singles out Gosselaar in another section of the book, suggesting he took steroids to make his muscles look more ripped and toned for 1994’s spin-off Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

The revelation by Diamond has once reaffirmed the ongoing relationship between steroids and celebrities, though not many have admitted to this fact. It is also believed by some that the “accusations” by Diamond would affect lives of many more celebrities, including his past co-stars.