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Sorry, not trying to hi-jack this thread just think I should start a new one. But does anyone know if Bio L. survived this?
 
MY 2 CENT'S

I BELIVE ALL OF THIS FIRST CAME ABOUT WITH SPORT'S BEING PUT IN THE "LIMELIGHT"., THAN TREE HUGGER TYPES TAKE AND RUN WITH IT. BLOW E-THING OUT OF PROPORTION.. THE MEDIA ALSO SEE'S THE POTENTIAL TO SELL TRUMPTED UP STORIES($$$). LASTLY THIS BRING'S CORPERATE DRUG COMPANIES TO REALIZE THE MONEY THEY ARE LOSING WITH THE COST OF HGH/ROIDS BEING DRIVEN DOWN DUE TO AVAILABLILITY. THUS MAKING THESE COMPOUNDS ACCESABLE TO THE COMMIN MAN. IN MY DAY HGH WAS $350 PER KIT(only rich man drug).NEVER $120. PER IU . ALL THIS IS COMING TO A HEAD NOW. WE AS A COMMUNITY NEED TO SCREAM OUT IN ONE SINGLE UNIFIED LOUD VOICE FOR "FARE PLAY"... HELL IT WORK'S FOR GAY & LESBOS.. I KNOW IM DREAMIN, BUT WOULD'ENT BE NICE TO SEE THE DRUG COMPANIES AND THE GOV'T ON THERE KNEES ABOUT THIS.. I WOULD GARUNTEE THEY WOULD BE SELLING THERE HGH FOR $120. PER IU IN A NEW YORK SECOND....

CJ/MRVENS/SCRRAY----OUT
B.T.W. I THINK THE LITTLE GUY'S ARE SAFE FOR THE MOST PART.. ANYONE CAN MAKE A CASE FOR MEDICAL NEED IN SMALL DOSAGE
 
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CAN SOMEONE BESIDES A NEWBIE LIKE Valhalla or Bust verify this is a true list. This CLOWN just joined in May 07 and we are supposed to listen to him???

rbigg70

Thanks for the warm welcome... :rolleyes:

I have been on other sites for years, I just mainly lurk here and I don't cross-post site links for security reasons.

I will PM you the link. Just be forewarned that the site is red-hot with LE and is mentioned in one of the indictments.
 
MSN news

:eek:

By NICOLE BEYER TRIBUNE
East Valley Tribune
Updated: 1:56 a.m. MT Sept 25, 2007
Four East Valley men have been arrested in connection with an international drug bust. Edwin Porter, 41, and Mathew Peltz, 36, both of Chandler; Chris Davis, 29, of Tempe; and Tyler Lunn, 27, of Phoenix were arrested on suspicion of selling steroids on MySpace.com under a company named Vision Farms.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force is compiling a list of buyers. The task force found two drug labs in west Phoenix after serving search warrants in Chandler, Mesa, Tempe and Phoenix. Investigators said they seized about $200,000 worth of assets used in the operation.

The indictment, unsealed in Connecticut, said the defendants bought the raw steroid material from China, manufactured oral and injectable anabolic steroids and sold them to customers around the country using MySpace.com.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Lt. Dave Munley said ring operators would work in small cells, using mail centers such as FedEx and UPS to deliver the drugs to customers. Meanwhile, Maricopa County Superior Court records show Peltz worked for FedEx between 2000 and 2001. Employees at a UPS store near Ray and Rural said he also has a post office box at that location.

And neighbors who know Peltz, said he looks like a guy who works out.

"Oh yeah, he's a big guy, a real big guy," said Adrian Johnson of Chandler. But, another neighbor, James Featherstone said he's a good guy and shouldn't be judged because he's been arrested and charged. "Until he's proven guilty, he's still alright with me," Featherstone said.

So far, more than 120 arrests have been made during this 18-month international investigation. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Phoenix Police, Phoenix Postal Service, Food and Drug Administration, Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigations all worked on the case.

Lt. Dave Munley said Phoenix and San Diego were the two main distribution centers in the southwest for this organized drug ring.
 
this is just pushing the entire gear scene further underground...

controlling anabolic steroid use/abuse/distribution is nothing one can achieve whilst ignoring the most basic laws of economy : demand is always met by supply ...there is no denying it... unfortunately this goes for substances like hard drugs too...just look at any given city in any country in the world you can "score" no problem 24/7 365 days/year...

making something "illegal" just puts it out of the governments control and in to the hands of criminals...laws are sometimes the criminals best friend because they allow for a "Black market" of certain illicit substances with big profits and little quality control and ethics...the underground labs were made possible by these same laws and are a direct result of them...the average steroid user in some countries is turned away from legal medical advice/help and is forced to use UG products simply because legit products are now illegal and expensive...making something illegal in no way makes it out of reach...even inmates in high security prisons in the USA are juiced up...

one other important law of nature and physics is action=reaction (and often leads to escalation)...press too hard in china with this "raw deal" stuff and india will pop up...press to hard in india and afrika and latin america for example will emerge in this now very profitable arena(s)...all that effort will just lean to the opening of new "fronts" like in any war...during each "shakedown" there will be a period of chaos and low quality and scammers until things settle back to normal and then the cycle repeats...each time the user will get burned by this "Effort" of his government to protect him from doing something he is most likely going to do anyway...with each new "push" form the government the scene will float further away from the legit pharmacy and closer to the hard drug scene/people...first is was brand name legit gear then then came the veterinary gear and the mexi gear and the fina pellets and kits then came UGs and then the powders and papers and droppers and bladders who knows in 10 years :(

the very law that was passed to protect is in fact the only realistic variable in this spiral of escalation...you cant change the minds of millions upon millions of people who are desperate to look better/younger its an immense force not to be fucked with...soon to be billions of people the problem will only get bigger no doubt about it...+ you cant change the almighty law$ of economy and the fact that the more something becomes illegal the more profitable it seems to become...in the not to distant future one will be able to obtain gear from their local "cripp" or "blood" that now have a new side biz to finance their happy little enterprises...

theres only one way out of this, only one variable and that is for the government to legalize it and keep in under control in the best realistic way possible...

the problem is "anabolic steroids" and "roid rage" sound exotic and exciting and make for good headlines with the media and score easy phony political points...even the police themselves dont care too much about gear...reality is a substantial part of every LE is on the juice...

we have no realistic solution to the problem but to wait until the people get fed up with reading/hearing about steroids...or find some journalists/politicans and beat/gay rape the living crap out of them and say "sorry its da roids ya know :st:r-wars " because were gonna get a bad rap anyway :D and be put in the same self with the worst of the worst...

btw im kidding about the gay rape i dont support anything gay :)...alex
 
I find it amazing that some people are shocked and irate over this. I mean, come on, what did we truly expect with open source posting on tons of open/free message boards? A lot of the sources that are international openly advertise turn around times to the USA......it doesn't take a genious to figure that one out!

The bottom line is that anyone that plays the game knows what they were doing is illegal and every time they made an order whether internationally or domestic they took a chance, PERIOD. So let's not act all suprised and outraged when law enforcement (the name says it all yes?) actually worked together and pulled this one off with the help of all other countries involved! It got way out of hand. LE will not turn a blind eye when it's easy enough for any teenager with a computer to simply log into a website or send an email and obtain illegal drugs without ever leaving their house. They needed to set a precedence and scare people and they did a good job at that!

Skarn
 
I betcha 10 bucks over half of those drugs never made it back to the station! Or over the next few months a greater portion of that evidence will mysteriously disappear from the holding bins they had it in!

you got that right sooo many juiced up cops at my gym its crazy!!!!and thier people tell them when a drug test is coming go figure.
 
So very true. In some parts of town you can go anytime of the day and see dealers standing on the street corners slingin their rock. Once saw what appeared to be a boy age 12 yrs old or so selling his wares just one block from the police station there.

its funny but thats where they sale the most right under the cops nose.next block over ethier direction.
 
........and number 3

we in the U.S. should FLEE THE COUNTRY AT ONCE :eek: :eek: :eek:

i have noticed that alot of people have done this when bush took office.somewhere that our dollar is worth more and gear and weed flow freely for those of us that really need it.AMERICA IS GETTIN LIKE RUSSIA USED TO BE WHATS WRONG WITH THE NIEVE PEOPLE HERE?
 
it was posted on anabolicfitness that ag-guys and Mr.X from elitefitness just got busted too... take it for what it's worth, I don't know if this has been confirmed.. but if it's true then all ancillary-research guys are at risk as well
 
some more for ya.....MAX MUSCLE SAN JOSE, CA


SJ 'Max Muscle' Shop Caught In Steroid Sting

SAN JOSE, Calif. Sep.24 2007 (AP) - There is a South Bay connection to a massive international steroid bust which took place on Monday.

The DEA says that Operation Raw Deal is the largest steroid enforcement action in U.S. history. The two year multi agency sting involved nine countries.

The DEA showed off some of the photo evidence it had in the nation's biggest steroids sweep ranging 120 arrests with 11.4 million steroid doses and 500 pounds of raw powder from China used to manufacture steroids.

"Operation Raw Deal has shown how worldwide manufactures of the raw materials needed for steroids use websites and even provide guidance to potential customers," Says Agent Gordon Taylor, DEA Sacramento.

The DEA says it issued 143 search warrants nationwide to catch steroid manufactures and dealers. One of the busts involves the owner of a Max Muscle franchise in San Jose.

38-year-old Lance Tomlinson is in custody and no one at his store is answering any questions.

A 22-page criminal complaint outlines an undercover operation which nabbed three people including Lance Tomlinson and a relative who worked at Genetech named Brandon Tomlinson.

"They were in fact acquiring the human growth hormone from Genetech and selling it at Max Muscle store," says Michael Chapman, DEA Asst. Special Agent.

When agents arrested the three men in the Max Muscle case last week, they also seized 50 unmarked bottles of human growth hormone, 13 vials of steroids, and approximately 44 grams of crystal methamphetamine.

DEA agents say the South Bay case is unusual.

Operation Raw Deal shut down 56 labs across the country, most of them clandestine operations manufacturing steroids in filthy conditions and often peddling the illegal products over the internet.

"Operation Raw Deal seeks to shine a bright light on both the dangers of illegal steroid use and the sever consequences of illegally trading in it," said McGregor Scott, U.S. Attorney.

The three San Jose suspects from the Max Muscle bust each face up to five years in prison and a 250 thousand dollar fine.

Locally, Lance Tomlinson, 38, of San Jose, who owns Max Muscle Sports Nutrition in San Jose, and his brother, Brandon, 44, of Burlingame, who works at Genentech, are facing time in federal prison if they are convicted of conspiracy to possess and intent to distribute human growth hormone. One of Lance Tomlinson's employees, Jeffrey Coffron, 33, of San Jose was also charged.

Brandon Tomlinson was released on $100,000 bail; his brother is still in custody and is scheduled to appear in court today.

A married couple from Southern California, Larry Pollack and Lynda Wallace, were also nabbed as part of the local dragnet, spearheaded from the San Jose office of the DEA, and charged Sept. 17 with possession and intent to distribute steroids. It looks as though the couple and the brothers were fingered by the same confidential informant - an underground steroid lab operator.
None of the defendants could be reached for comment.

At Tomlinson's Muscle Max store on Meridian Avenue, an employee refused to comment. Muscle Max is a franchise with other locations in the Bay Area that aren't connected to Tomlinson.
 
AND SOME MORE.....................



Federal law officers, who have busted a Connecticut man and five others accused of peddling steroids on MySpace.com and other Internet sites, are now focusing their attention on the dozens of state residents who bought the illegal drugs.

U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor wants to know whether children or teenagers, coaches or teachers were among the patrons. The case is a local offshoot of an international steroids crackdown that has netted dozens of arrests.

Of the six people charged in the Connecticut case, four men - three from Arizona and one from Pennsylvania - were indicted together on charges that they sold steroids through a MySpace.com profile called "anabolic-ss."

A fifth man, Alan R. Blair of Wilton, pleaded guilty Monday in Hartford to distributing human growth hormone through the website www.jintropin.com.

A sixth man, from Florida, pleaded guilty to mailing steroids to buyers, including Connecticut residents, who contacted him through his MySpace profile.

The use of the MySpace site "raises a red flag that they are trying to market to minors," O'Connor said Monday at a press conference.

He said agents will work to identify the buyers, an unusual step because possession of a small amount of steroids is a misdemeanor that federal law officers do not normally pursue.

"But they're going to get a knock on the door, just to wake some folks up. If they're minors, then we have an obligation to let their parents know," O'Connor said.

He said there's no evidence that any professional athletes are among the Connecticut buyers

The 18-month Connecticut investigation, dubbed Operation Phony Pharm, involved local FBI agents who posed as online customers and ordered steroids over the Internet. The tactic was similar to what The Courant did in a November 2005 series that helped to shed light on the black-market steroids racket.

The FBI's Connecticut probe parallels an international crackdown by federal law officers on steroid labs and distributors that was announced Monday.

That effort, dubbed Operation Raw Deal, has resulted in more than 120 arrests and the dismantling of 56 steroids labs.

Raw Deal, O'Connor said, focused on manufacturers and major suppliers in China, the U.S., Canada and elsewhere, while Phony Pharm targeted distributors.

O'Connor noted that the four-man ring bought raw steroid powder from China and manufactured anabolic steroids in home labs. He said the drugs could easily have been contaminated.

The steroids that The Courant purchased online for the 2005 series were tainted with everything from heavy metals to a banned, cancer-causing cattle fattener, tests found.

"This is a public safety issue," O'Connor said. "That's one reason we want to do this outreach [to the buyers]. There could be all sorts of health concerns."


O'Connor was joined at the press conference by Kimberly Mertz, head of the FBI in Connecticut, and by officials of the Food and Drug Administration's criminal investigation division.

Blair, 55, was the only Connecticut resident among the six charged in Operation Phony Pharm. Authorities said he worked out of his house on Mayflower Lane in Wilton, assessed at $500,000, and connected buyers to China-based suppliers of HGH - human growth hormone.

The FDA had warned Blair as far back as five years ago to stop his activities.

"He probably thought the most he could get was a fine. Now he realizes there are real consequences," O'Connor said.

Blair must forfeit $260,000 to the government and faces up to five years in prison. Blair's attorney, Lisa Scolari of New York City, did not immediately return a telephone message Monday. A message left at Blair's home was not returned.

The four men indicted Friday on distribution charges were Edwin Porter, 41, and Matthew Peltz, 36, both of Chandler Ariz.; Tyler Lunn, 27, of Phoenix; and Walter Corey, 37, of Charleroi, Pa.

Brian Tompkins, 29, of Deltona, Fla., pleaded guilty to one count of distributing steroids.

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Raid on steroid 'factory' nabs two
Pearland couple among 124 caught in a nationwide DEA crackdown

A Pearland couple accused of cranking out at least 50,000 steroid pills an hour from a covert, home-based factory were among those arrested by federal agents who Monday announced the results of a nationwide crackdown on the performance-enhancing drug.

Authorities contend that throughout Kenneth Hebert's home were four industrial pill presses and supplies used to make the steroids from materials acquired from China.

The raw anabolic supplies arrived in the mail, were converted to injectable steroids as well as pills, and later distributed by the U.S. mail and private courier services, authorities said.

"It is alleged he was an importer and distributor of anabolic steroids throughout the United States," said Michael Dellacorte, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Hebert, 36, and Leticia Zamora, 36, identified as his wife, were quietly arrested early Thursday and charged with possession and conspiracy with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.

They apparently caught the attention of authorities during Operation Raw Deal, a nationwide investigation that has resulted in the arrest of at least 124 people and the seizure of 56 clandestine laboratories and 11.4 million doses of steroids, according to the DEA.

Steroids have been on the public's mind for the last few years, with numerous instances of the performance-enhancing drugs being used by everyone from professional athletes to high school students.

Authorities would not say whether they have identified anyone who used steroids produced at Hebert's home.

In addition to the Houston area, arrests have been made in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, California, Maryland and Missouri, according to the Justice Department.

The cases are not all part of the same conspiracy, but all have ties to China, where the materials were said to have been produced in rogue laboratories.

The Pearland-handled anabolic steroids — part of a family of compounds that include the male hormone testosterone that can pump up muscles but bring on a host of life-threatening ailments — were often packaged to look as if they were produced by a legitimate manufacturer and pushed on the Web under such names as Phalco Labs and Texstar Lab.

"Fifteen or 20 years ago it was a dealer at the gym, now there is another element," said Dellacorte.

Word of the investigation has spread among the Internet bulletin boards where the products were said to be pushed.

"Have been wanting to give that stuff a go myself," a signer known as Mixer said in a message apparently about Phalco. "It appears one of the distributors has just been popped tho, so be careful who you deal with."

On Monday afternoon, a private delivery service message on Hebert's door noted $102 was due on delivery of a package, for which neither contents nor the sender were noted.

Hebert's laboratory was housed in a rambling one-story frame home with a wooded front yard in the 2500 block of O'Day Road.

Outside are not the gates and guards one might expect from a covert distributor described by the DEA as a "big fish," but a children's basketball goal. A dog barked through the fence.

Neighbor Addie Killian said the couple had lived there for about two years and were good neighbors.

"She was always out working in the yard with her two small children," she said of Zamora. She recalled how last winter Zamora helped her clear tree limbs that fell during a storm.

Killian noted that UPS, FedEx and other delivery trucks made frequent stops at the residence.

She was amazed, she said, when DEA and other federal agents arrested the couple. Agents carried out equipment that looked like robots, each about the size of a person and equipped with cooling fans.

"To think that something like that was going on 40 feet from my bedroom window," Killian said.

Also nearby is a sports complex — Pitch, Putt and Play — which has batting cages and a miniature golf course. Assistant manager Joel Cotter said he never heard from the couple.

"They weren't like the people who were there before," he said of previous occupants. "They never complained about the noise when we had a band here."

Among the agencies involved in Operation Raw Deal are the DEA, Internal Revenue Service, the Food and Drug Administration and the Postal Service.

"Clandestine drug labs manufacture adulterated and dangerous products," said Don DeGabrielle, the Houston-based U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. "This case demonstrates successful efforts of various federal agencies to disrupt the international drug trade that so adversely impacts our society."

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Two Downriver men are among 124 people nationwide busted in an international probe of underground trafficking in anabolic steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs, federal authorities said Monday.

Authorities also said they discovered a vacant house in Taylor on Thursday containing the largest clandestine steroid laboratory ever found in Michigan. They said they seized a large quantity of steroids in powder, liquid and tablets and packaging materials.

The dosage units we're talking about are huge," said Rich Isaacson, spokesman for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in Detroit. "We found almost 400,000 dosage units alone in powder steroids."

Arrested in Michigan were Timothy Edward Smith, 31, of Taylor, and Jeffrey Lee Mitchell, 35, of Brownstown Township.

Authorities said Smith bought steroids from suppliers in China and England and sold them to customers who frequented Internet bodybuilder chat boards. They said Mitchell was his business associate.

Smith and his company, U.S. Pharmaceuticals, are accused of importing 17 pounds of anabolic steroids from suppliers in China from March to July.

The men were indicted Sept. 18 in U.S. District Court in San Diego and were arrested without incident Thursday during raids on their homes.

The DEA said Smith leased the Taylor lab.

They were freed on $10,000 unsecured bonds during appearances Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Their lawyer for their Detroit arraignment, deputy federal defender Stacey Studnicki, declined comment Monday.

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Four people were charged in Missouri as part of an international investigation of illicit steroid labs, U.S. Attorney John Wood announced Monday.

The four were among more than 120 people arrested in an 18-month investigation called Operation Raw Deal, which involved nine foreign countries and led to the seizure of 56 laboratories in the this country for manufacturing anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.

The investigation netted 11.4 million steroid doses, $6.5 million in cash, vehicles, boats, pill presses and weapons, the Drug Enforcement Administration said.

Indictments returned Friday in the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City charged Bryan G. Wilson, 38, of Kansas City and his ex-wife, April Wilson, 32, of Columbia with conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids. Bryan Wilson also is charged with one count of distributing anabolic steroids.

Mikal Schrage, 28, of Nixa, and Jason Varner, 33, of Jefferson City, were charged in separate criminal complaints with possessing anabolic steroids with intent to distribute.

The Wilsons are alleged to have conspired to distribute steroids from 2003 to Sept. 15 by wiring money to sources in Qingdao, China, and receiving raw steroid powder in return.

Bryan Wilson allegedly used locations in Clay and Boone counties to turn the raw steroid powder to pill and liquid anabolic steroids. Then, operating under the names Pro Pharm, Pro Pharm Labs and Palmco, Inc., the Wilsons distributed the anabolic steroid products to customers throughout the United States, Wood said.

After Bryan Wilson's arrest, officers seized two 200-pound pill presses, other laboratory equipment and $60,000 from his apartment in north Kansas City.

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21 people charged in Calif. over steroid links

At least 21 people were charged last week by federal grand juries in California in connection with steroid manufacturing or distribution. A couple charged in San Jose with distributing steroids for an Internet company called Stallion Labs were arrested Sept. 16 at the Otay Mesa border crossing near San Diego as they returned to the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. Both pleaded not guilty at their arraignments last week in San Diego and are free on bond pending their return to Northern California, according to one of their attorneys, Howard Frank.

Seven indictments were also filed last week in San Diego against 14 people running networks in other states, including Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

Twelve have been arrested on money laundering and conspiracy charges linked to the importation and distribution of steroids, authorities said. They face up to 20 years in prison and $1 million in fines if convicted; additionally, the distribution companies may be fined up to $4 million.

Two of those were arrested in the resort area of Phuket, Thailand, and are awaiting extradition in connection with a ring that sourced raw steroid powder in China, had it shipped to underground labs in New Jersey and Washington and then sent it to Internet customers from Las Vegas, according to U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt.

Federal authorities in Sacramento announced two arrests. Ryan Hanson, 27, of Chico, pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge of possessing anabolic steroids with intent to distribute. He had been under investigation since May as part of the worldwide probe, officials said. Hanson, who worked as a bouncer at a Chico bar, was released on $50,000 bail.

Separately, Fresno grand jury indicted Tyler Stumbo, 23, of Bakersfield, also on Thursday. He was arrested in Berkeley the same day and freed on $100,000 bond for a Sept. 27 court appearance.

A search of Stumbo's Bakersfield home uncovered an underground steroid laboratory with steroidal powder, liquid and pills in various stages of production, authorities said. They seized 160 vials containing about 15.5 pounds of steroids.

In addition, information from the search and Stumbo's arrest led to the seizure of 25 pounds of steroid powder in Tennessee, said U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott. His arrest was the result of an investigation that began in January

Each man faces up to five years in prison if convicted.

Another investigation in San Jose led to Thursday's arrest of three people who allegedly sold steroids and human-growth hormone from a local fitness store. According to a criminal complaint, the defendants stole some of their human-growth hormone drugs from the biotechnology firm Genentech.
 
So it seems like they are going after the sellers and not the little guy...for now?
 
They can't bust all the users! Millions..................it would tie up the criminal justice system till dooms day. Would cost the taxpayers and the feds trillions and they don't have it. let alone the man power to round everyone up. Besides there wouldn't be anyone left to vote at the next election!!!
 
some more for ya.....MAX MUSCLE SAN JOSE, CA


SJ 'Max Muscle' Shop Caught In Steroid Sting

SAN JOSE, Calif. Sep.24 2007 (AP) - There is a South Bay connection to a massive international steroid bust which took place on Monday.

The DEA says that Operation Raw Deal is the largest steroid enforcement action in U.S. history. The two year multi agency sting involved nine countries.

The DEA showed off some of the photo evidence it had in the nation's biggest steroids sweep ranging 120 arrests with 11.4 million steroid doses and 500 pounds of raw powder from China used to manufacture steroids.

"Operation Raw Deal has shown how worldwide manufactures of the raw materials needed for steroids use websites and even provide guidance to potential customers," Says Agent Gordon Taylor, DEA Sacramento.

The DEA says it issued 143 search warrants nationwide to catch steroid manufactures and dealers. One of the busts involves the owner of a Max Muscle franchise in San Jose.

38-year-old Lance Tomlinson is in custody and no one at his store is answering any questions.

A 22-page criminal complaint outlines an undercover operation which nabbed three people including Lance Tomlinson and a relative who worked at Genetech named Brandon Tomlinson.

"They were in fact acquiring the human growth hormone from Genetech and selling it at Max Muscle store," says Michael Chapman, DEA Asst. Special Agent.

When agents arrested the three men in the Max Muscle case last week, they also seized 50 unmarked bottles of human growth hormone, 13 vials of steroids, and approximately 44 grams of crystal methamphetamine.

DEA agents say the South Bay case is unusual.

Operation Raw Deal shut down 56 labs across the country, most of them clandestine operations manufacturing steroids in filthy conditions and often peddling the illegal products over the internet.

"Operation Raw Deal seeks to shine a bright light on both the dangers of illegal steroid use and the sever consequences of illegally trading in it," said McGregor Scott, U.S. Attorney.

The three San Jose suspects from the Max Muscle bust each face up to five years in prison and a 250 thousand dollar fine.

Locally, Lance Tomlinson, 38, of San Jose, who owns Max Muscle Sports Nutrition in San Jose, and his brother, Brandon, 44, of Burlingame, who works at Genentech, are facing time in federal prison if they are convicted of conspiracy to possess and intent to distribute human growth hormone. One of Lance Tomlinson's employees, Jeffrey Coffron, 33, of San Jose was also charged.

Brandon Tomlinson was released on $100,000 bail; his brother is still in custody and is scheduled to appear in court today.

A married couple from Southern California, Larry Pollack and Lynda Wallace, were also nabbed as part of the local dragnet, spearheaded from the San Jose office of the DEA, and charged Sept. 17 with possession and intent to distribute steroids. It looks as though the couple and the brothers were fingered by the same confidential informant - an underground steroid lab operator.
None of the defendants could be reached for comment.

At Tomlinson's Muscle Max store on Meridian Avenue, an employee refused to comment. Muscle Max is a franchise with other locations in the Bay Area that aren't connected to Tomlinson.

so they found crystal meth there too?

im not hip on the newest crazes now-a-days

is this the newest fat burner? crystal meth?
 
I wonder how much money the US gov is making off of this. How many 100,000's of $$ people are forfeiting?
 
Exactly

this is just pushing the entire gear scene further underground...

controlling anabolic steroid use/abuse/distribution is nothing one can achieve whilst ignoring the most basic laws of economy : demand is always met by supply ...there is no denying it... unfortunately this goes for substances like hard drugs too...just look at any given city in any country in the world you can "score" no problem 24/7 365 days/year...

making something "illegal" just puts it out of the governments control and in to the hands of criminals...laws are sometimes the criminals best friend because they allow for a "Black market" of certain illicit substances with big profits and little quality control and ethics...the underground labs were made possible by these same laws and are a direct result of them...the average steroid user in some countries is turned away from legal medical advice/help and is forced to use UG products simply because legit products are now illegal and expensive...making something illegal in no way makes it out of reach...even inmates in high security prisons in the USA are juiced up...

one other important law of nature and physics is action=reaction (and often leads to escalation)...press too hard in china with this "raw deal" stuff and india will pop up...press to hard in india and afrika and latin america for example will emerge in this now very profitable arena(s)...all that effort will just lean to the opening of new "fronts" like in any war...during each "shakedown" there will be a period of chaos and low quality and scammers until things settle back to normal and then the cycle repeats...each time the user will get burned by this "Effort" of his government to protect him from doing something he is most likely going to do anyway...with each new "push" form the government the scene will float further away from the legit pharmacy and closer to the hard drug scene/people...first is was brand name legit gear then then came the veterinary gear and the mexi gear and the fina pellets and kits then came UGs and then the powders and papers and droppers and bladders who knows in 10 years

the very law that was passed to protect is in fact the only realistic variable in this spiral of escalation...you cant change the minds of millions upon millions of people who are desperate to look better/younger its an immense force not to be fucked with...soon to be billions of people the problem will only get bigger no doubt about it...+ you cant change the almighty law$ of economy and the fact that the more something becomes illegal the more profitable it seems to become...in the not to distant future one will be able to obtain gear from their local "cripp" or "blood" that now have a new side biz to finance their happy little enterprises...

theres only one way out of this, only one variable and that is for the government to legalize it and keep in under control in the best realistic way possible...

the problem is "anabolic steroids" and "roid rage" sound exotic and exciting and make for good headlines with the media and score easy phony political points...even the police themselves dont care too much about gear...reality is a substantial part of every LE is on the juice...

we have no realistic solution to the problem but to wait until the people get fed up with reading/hearing about steroids...or find some journalists/politicans and beat/gay rape the living crap out of them and say "sorry its da roids ya know " because were gonna get a bad rap anyway and be put in the same self with the worst of the worst...

btw im kidding about the gay rape i dont support anything gay ...alex
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#169 Today, 06:42 AM
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this is just pushing the entire gear scene further underground...

controlling anabolic steroid use/abuse/distribution is nothing one can achieve whilst ignoring the most basic laws of economy : demand is always met by supply ...there is no denying it... unfortunately this goes for substances like hard drugs too...just look at any given city in any country in the world you can "score" no problem 24/7 365 days/year...

making something "illegal" just puts it out of the governments control and in to the hands of criminals...laws are sometimes the criminals best friend because they allow for a "Black market" of certain illicit substances with big profits and little quality control and ethics...the underground labs were made possible by these same laws and are a direct result of them...the average steroid user in some countries is turned away from legal medical advice/help and is forced to use UG products simply because legit products are now illegal and expensive...making something illegal in no way makes it out of reach...even inmates in high security prisons in the USA are juiced up...

one other important law of nature and physics is action=reaction (and often leads to escalation)...press too hard in china with this "raw deal" stuff and india will pop up...press to hard in india and afrika and latin america for example will emerge in this now very profitable arena(s)...all that effort will just lean to the opening of new "fronts" like in any war...during each "shakedown" there will be a period of chaos and low quality and scammers until things settle back to normal and then the cycle repeats...each time the user will get burned by this "Effort" of his government to protect him from doing something he is most likely going to do anyway...with each new "push" form the government the scene will float further away from the legit pharmacy and closer to the hard drug scene/people...first is was brand name legit gear then then came the veterinary gear and the mexi gear and the fina pellets and kits then came UGs and then the powders and papers and droppers and bladders who knows in 10 years

the very law that was passed to protect is in fact the only realistic variable in this spiral of escalation...you cant change the minds of millions upon millions of people who are desperate to look better/younger its an immense force not to be fucked with...soon to be billions of people the problem will only get bigger no doubt about it...+ you cant change the almighty law$ of economy and the fact that the more something becomes illegal the more profitable it seems to become...in the not to distant future one will be able to obtain gear from their local "cripp" or "blood" that now have a new side biz to finance their happy little enterprises...

theres only one way out of this, only one variable and that is for the government to legalize it and keep in under control in the best realistic way possible...

the problem is "anabolic steroids" and "roid rage" sound exotic and exciting and make for good headlines with the media and score easy phony political points...even the police themselves dont care too much about gear...reality is a substantial part of every LE is on the juice...

we have no realistic solution to the problem but to wait until the people get fed up with reading/hearing about steroids...or find some journalists/politicans and beat/gay rape the living crap out of them and say "sorry its da roids ya know " because were gonna get a bad rap anyway and be put in the same self with the worst of the worst...

btw im kidding about the gay rape i dont support anything gay ...alex
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#169 Today, 06:42 AM
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I would compare it somewhat to the prohibition of alcohol here in the US, that didnt work so well! Now the US is happy about liquor sales, lots of taxes on them as well as tobacco.
 

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