Brinkkmann Pharma bust: Coralville Iowa 319 Elite Fitness gym manager jailed

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Bettendorf man sentenced to prison for steroid and HGH trafficking
POSTED 3:21 PM, JULY 31, 2017, BY WQAD DIGITAL TEAM

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A Bettendorf man is among three men sentenced to federal prison for selling and distributing anabolic steroids.

Jeffrey B. Lackas, 31, of Bettendorf was sentenced along with Stanley Szeto of Iowa City and Daniel Cruz-Bonilla of Fontana, California in federal court in Council Bluffs on Friday, July 28.

According to federal court documents, Lackas, Szeto and Cruz-Bonilla were members of a drug trafficking organization that distributed anabolic steroids and human-growth hormones throughout the United States between July of 2011 and March of 2015. Court records say they operated under the internet name “Brinkkmann Pharma” and that the drugs they distributed were sourced in China.

Lackas was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and three-years supervised release. Szeto and Cruz-Bonilla were sentenced to 25 and 41 months, respectively.

Multiple agencies participated in the trafficking investigation including: The Omaha Police Department in Nebraska, Douglas County Nebraska Sheriff’s Office, Iowa Division of Narcotic Enforcement, Nebraska State Patrol, Iowa City Police Department, United States Border Patrol, United States Postal Inspection Service, and Drug Enforcement Administration.

Bettendorf man sentenced to prison for steroid and HGH trafficking



Iowa men sentenced for their role in nationwide steroid distribution

JULY 31, 2017 BY DAR DANIELSON

Two men from Iowa are among three people will serve time in prison after pleading guilty to distributing steroids across the country.

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced 31-year-old Jefferey Lackas of Bettendorf to 46 months in prison, 39-year-old Stanley Szeto of Iowa City to 25 months along with a $6,000 fine, and 30-year-old Daniel Cruz-Bonilla of Fontana, California was sentenced to 41 months.

Court records show that between July of 2011 and March of 2015 the men were members of a drug trafficking operation that went by the name “Brinkkman Pharma” on the internet. It says they distributed steroids and human growth hormones obtained from a source in China.

Szeto is a bodybuilder who ran 319 Elite Fitness in Coralville. Police seized steroids and cash after raiding his Iowa City home in March.

Iowa men sentenced for their role in nationwide steroid distribution

 

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Here it says he was the gym OWNER


Feds: Iowa City gym owner was part of large-scale steroid network

IOWA CITY — An Iowa City gym manager has been implicated in a five-year conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids.

Investigators said in court documents filed Wednesday that 39-year-old Stanley Szeto was a co-conspirator in a “large-scale nationwide distribution” network.

The bodybuilder was arrested in August.

Officers executed warrants at his Iowa City home and gym, 319 Elite Fitness in Coralville, seizing dozens of vials and tablets of suspected steroids and packaging materials.

The government’s seeking an order to keep $2,680 in seized cash.

A DEA agent said there’s evidence that Szeto bought steroids from a supplier in China and filled orders for 200 customers. Szeto’s expected to plead guilty to a federal charge next week.

Separately, he’s awaiting trial on an assault charge after he allegedly fractured the skull of a patron at Union Bar in Iowa City, where he was working as a bouncer. Szeto claims self-defense.

Feds: Iowa City gym owner was part of large-scale steroid network

Beating a patron?
Then Feds got a tip off?
Coincidental?



3 men sentenced to prison for illegal steroid distributionThe Associated Press
Aug 1, 2017 Updated 11 hrs ago

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  Three men have been sentenced to multi-year prison terms after their conviction on charges of illegally distributing anabolic steroids.

U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger on Friday sentenced Jeffrey B. Lackas, Stanley Szeto and Daniel Cruz-Bonilla after their conviction of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids.

U.S. Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel said the men were part of an organization that from 2011 to 2015 used the internet to distribute steroids and human-growth hormones, obtained from China, throughout the country.

The 31-year-old Lackas, of Bettendorf, was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in prison. The 39-year-old Szeto, of Iowa City, was sentenced to two years and a month, plus a $6,000 fine. And 30-year-old Cruz-Bonilla, of Fontana, California, was sentenced to 3 years and 5 months.


2011 to 2015?
4 years?
That's a record according to @master.on lousy theories
Why sources always get busted by 2 years like clockwork?