ANOTHER bust.... In Arizona

rutman

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http://www.abc15.com/news/state/operation-cyber-juice-dea-investigation-busts-4-underground-steroid-labs-in-phoenix
 
I don't think there are any new UGL busts. As far as I can tell, they're including previously announced arrests that have happened since 2014. Let me know if I'm mistaken.
 
I don't think there are any new UGL busts. As far as I can tell, they're including previously announced arrests that have happened since 2014. Let me know if I'm mistaken.
Hopefully you're right. I found this on another site and it was posted yesterday. I thought it might be a new one. I'll do some more research.,.
 
It actually happened two days ago.

Operation Cyber Juice
What happened? As far as I can tell, it was only an announcement of 16 UGL busts since 2014. The announcement is somewhat ambiguous. It definitely intends to give the impression that there was some huge coordinated and simultaneous new bust similar to Operation Raw Deal. I'm not so sure that is the case.
 
I see what you're saying now. I don't understand why the story is being posted again on multiple websites and news organizations if this is old news. There's even an article on the DEA website about it all. But it seems like the 4 labs that went down in Phoenix may be new... Idk.
 
I see what you're saying now. I don't understand why the story is being posted again on multiple websites and news organizations if this is old news. There's even an article on the DEA website about it all. But it seems like the 4 labs that went down in Phoenix may be new... Idk.
It's LE strategy to make it look like they're having a bigger impact. Operation Cyber Juice was announced in conjunction with the announcement of a larger DEA-led investigation that partnered with Europol and WADA to target UGLs in Europe called Operation Underground. As far as I can tell, one UGL in Iceland was busted as a result of that.

So, in the past couple of weeks, only one UGL in Iceland was busted? Maybe one of the 4 in Arizona is new? I don't know. I think the raid on the juice bar in Lifetime Fitness turned up nothing. It looks like they were looking for some new bust to cap off the Operation Cyber Juice announcement but it didn't happen.
 
http://www.12news.com/story/news/local/valley/2015/09/01/dea-steroid-bust-phoenix-arrests/71546260/ Here is a link to a local article with more in depth info. This is unfortunately new, its been all over local news. I think this may be part of the reason some ugls here on the forums have mentioned backing off.
LE trying to save face in an unsuccessful raid. DEA found nothing but it was a "logical assumption" that they would have.

"Coleman said there was no direct evidence showing Thorng sold steroids to customers at the café.

'But I think it's a logical assumption that whenever he had an opportunity to meet people that may be interested in this kind of product I think it's possible that he may be expanding his illegal business in those opportunities,' Coleman said."
 
150,000 dosage units of steroid product was seized; 121 pounds of raw steroid powder and 23.8 liters of raw steroid injectable liquid was also seized, as well as $285,955, eight vehicles and 16 weapons,

Holy cow! If a 10ml vial is 10 dosage units, those 4 shops had 15,000 vials in stock?
 
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