Another Australian Bust

[billycarp]

FYI:

Gym owner jailed over steroid importation
Tuesday, 8 February 2005

The Australian Customs Service says the sentencing of a 57-year-old gym owner from south-west NSW highlights the vigilance of officials looking for performance-enhancing drugs.

Yesterday in Bathurst District Court, Albury man Lawrence Butler, 57, was sentenced to two years jail.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to six charges of importing steroids and chemicals used in the manufacture of the illegal drug speed.

Customs' director of investigations in NSW, Robert Viles, says customs inspects all international mail.

"There were eight items intercepted in the international mail - they had come from Malaysia and they were identified on the outside as vitamin B tablets, they were tested and were found to indicate they were ephedrine," he said.

 

[xcelbeyond]

I wonder if he was really converting it to speed or just using it as a thermogenic?!?!

 

[billycarp]

I wonder if he was really converting it to speed or just using it as a thermogenic?!?!

I was wondering the same thing -- would most likely depend on the quantity.

All this meth abuse is taking all our rights to ephedrine away. Sad really.

 

[jerrywear]

I was wondering the same thing -- would most likely depend on the quantity.

All this meth abuse is taking all our rights to ephedrine away. Sad really.

its been sad for a long time.its just lately we can see more of it.actualy its really sad.its like few times a month you can find something to read about busts.oh well

 

[bigbaldbulldog]

When it rains it pours....

 

[Big A]

Laurie is the powerlifting federation president here.
This is what you get when you get involved with rec drugs.
There's no jail time for importing steroids. It's a max $5,000 fine. BUt it sounds better in the newspaper if they say steroid bust.

If he pleaded guilty to importing eph for the purpose of making speed, then that's what it was for. That is a serious charge and he would have denied it vehemently if it wasn't real.
These are just my observations.

Oh yes, his wife Taylor, is Ms Universe or somehting like this.