Posts Tagged ‘Steroids’

A disgraced Australian Olympic medalist has been charged with possessing steroids in jail.

The Olympian, Nathan Baggaley, was already serving a nine-year jail term with a non-parole period of five years for dealing in ecstasy.

From Dailytelegraph.com.au:

But on Thursday, while serving his time in Cessnock Correctional Centre, the three-time kayaking world champion and double Olympic silver medallist was charged with “possession of a prescribed restricted substance (steroids)”. It is understood he has subsequently been moved to Silverwater Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre and will appear in Cessnock court on July 21.

The 2007 arrest of Baggaley, 34, on the ecstasy charge was featured just this week on the Nine Network program Australian Druglords.

In 2005, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency busted Baggaley for anabolic steroid use.

Six police officers of the Gold Coast were found to be using anabolic steroids for no medical reason, according to an inquiry by the Crime and Misconduct Commission.

Some younger officers were using steroids, Superintendent Jim Keogh, the Gold Coast’s top cop, told the Operation Tesco inquiry.

From Heraldsun.com.au:

Today, counsel assisting the inquiry, John Allen, questioned Queensland Police Services human resources director Patricia Jones about steroid use among police.

He told the inquiry that six officers, most working in Surfers Paradise, were prescribed anabolic steroids by one doctor despite having no health problems.

Mr Allen said the officers wanted the steroids to counter tiredness, lethargy or because they ‘were just wanting to be bigger’.

The steroids would have been illegal if they were not given on prescription, Mr Allen said.

Mr Allen suggested, it might be ‘of concern’ that armed police might be using steroids.

Five sailors of the navy have been sacked for steroid abuse and other serious offences and five more face dismissal after a major investigation into drug trafficking at Sydney’s Garden Island base.

One of the accused sailors has also been convicted of drug-related offences while another has tested positive to anabolic steroids.

From Dailytelegraph.com.au:

A third tested positive for steroids and had been suspended without pay while he faced a number of criminal charges including assault.

The fourth sailor was sacked after repeated offences involving alcohol abuse were followed by a positive steroid test. The fifth returned a positive drug test for steroids and was immediately dismissed.

Steroid abuse is widespread in the military and investigators have been targeting physical training instructors who have been among the most common suppliers of anabolic steroids to troops and sailors.

All of the sailors had been dismissed, said Navy chief Vice-Admiral Russ Crane; the navy has a zero tolerance policy on illicit substances.

Heavyweight mixed martial artist Josh Barnett has been given a license to fight in California in the summer of 2009 by the California State Athletic Commission.

The former UFC heavyweight champion was denied the license previously after he tested positive for anabolic agents.

From Espn.go.com:

Barnett, a former UFC heavyweight champion, was originally denied after testing positive for anabolic agents leading up to a scheduled bout against Fedor Emelianenko in Anaheim, Calif.

Speaking in front of the commission at Monday’s special hearing, Barnett denied ever taking anabolic steroids. He claimed a positive test in Nevada in 2002 came as a result of tainted supplements.

“At the time drug testing was relatively new and the state of the supplement industry was a bit like the wild West,” Barnett said. “The supplements I took in 2002 were reclassified as anabolics in 2004, but at the time they were legal.”

He also said he did not use steroids prior to the Emelianenko fight, when the CSAC-issued urinalysis revealed Drostanolone metabolites in his system.

Barnett blamed the positive test in 2002 as a result of tainted supplements and said he never made the use of anabolic steroids.

Surya Prasad Sharma of India has been banned for a period of two years after he tested positive for an anabolic steroid.

The ban of Sharma will expire in November 2013.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

FINA says Sharma had traces of stanozolol in a sample given at a competition in Trivadrum, India.

India’s national anti-doping agency imposed a two-year ban which expires in November 2013.

Sharma’s case is among a series of doping suspensions involving steroids handed down in recent months to Indian athletes across several Olympic sports.

The doping incident has once highlighted the fact that the use of anabolic steroids is still very much happening in professional sports despite tall claims made by government and anti-doping agencies.

Officials of the UK government may be rendered helpless if London 2012 Olympic Games athletes bring anabolic steroids into the country for personal use.

This is primarily due to the fact that the use of steroids is not a criminal offence in the country and only trafficking of steroids constitutes a criminal offence.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

Australia, Canada, China and Italy all toughened drug importation rules before hosting the Olympics but the Government says there will be no similar legislative change in time for the 2012 Games.

However, the Government says it is serious about stamping out the abuse of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs and will submit a formal application to the World Anti-Doping Agency that recommends athletes should face at least a four-year ban, or life, for serious drug offences.

“We are making a clear pitch for tougher sentences and urging the need for a universal sentencing policy,” said Hugh Robertson, the Olympics minister. “We would like to see at least four years, if not rather longer than that.”

Spanish police have arrested ten suspects in Barcelona and Madrid while smashing an international sports doping ring allegedly linked to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

The network was implicated in positive doping test of competitors at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, cycling’s 2010 Tour of Spain and 2009 Tour of Portugal, as well as the 2010 Spanish athletics championships, police said.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

The operation began last summer when police were investigating a shop in Mataro, near Barcelona, that sold anabolic steroids to sportspeople, officers said.

The shop was allegedly linked to a Catalan athlete’s positive test for a synthetic steroid called EPO, or erythropoietin, in the 2010 Spanish athletics championships.

The shop received EPO from Morocco via two people, one of whom was a nurse at a dialysis centre, “where he is suspected of stealing different types of EPO.”

Alberto BN was head of the network and that in seven raids they seized documents, growth hormones and various steroids including a type of EPO known as CERA (continuous erythropoietin receptor activator), said police.

Following a tip-off about a hydroponic cannabis set-up on the NSW central coast, a man has been charged after police found a large number of cannabis plants in a home.

Police executed a search warrant on the home in Turpentine Street, Wyoming after receiving information about the house.

From News.ninemsn.com.au:

A 32-year-old man was arrested at the house, before police then searched his property nearby, discovering 524 grams of cannabis, a large sum of cash, anabolic steroids and prescription drugs.

He has been charged with drug-related offences, recklessly deal with the proceeds of crime, possess prescribed restricted substance, use electricity without authorisation and alter or interfere with meter without authority.

Police officials found 152 cannabis plants, 13kg of dried cannabis, cash, and anabolic steroids.

According to the press center of the National Customs Agency, a large amount of anabolic steroids have been seized by custom inspectors at Lesovo checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border.

The steroids were discovered in a Turkish bus that was traveling on its regular route from Bulgaria to Turkey.

From Focus-fen.net:

The vehicle arrived at the checkpoint at 1:10 a.m. local time. The two drivers and stewardess said they were transporting nothing that needed to be declared. Despite that the customs inspectors carried out a check and found a large amount of anabolic steroids in a hollow behind the rear tires. They took out 46,600 tablets, 1,774 ampoules and 30 different solutions.

The second driver, a 35-year-old Turkish citizen, admitted having hidden the anabolic steroids in the bus and was detained.

An investigating customs inspector is currently looking into the case and pre-trial proceedings were opened.

A 25-year veteran Attleboro fireman with a long legal background without placing up even one red dime for bail strolled out of government trial recently.

Michael B. Wilson, without making any comment, got into a silver sedan a few days after government providers busted him at his Attleboro home.

From Bostonherald.com:

Judge Judith G. Dein released the 49-year-old jake and father of one on a $10,000 secured bond, and ordered him to give up his passport and stay within this state and Rhode Island.

Wilson’s release comes as questions swirl about his criminal past, which Fire Chief Scott Lachance said he had no knowledge of before putting Wilson on unpaid administrative leave.

The firefighter was charged of buying oxycodone tablets that value more than $1000 from a government informant while engaging in sale of steroids to the informant while using his girlfriend as a go-between, government bodies remarked.