You know about these because they are in the news.
They are in the news because the person who ordered steroids is a police officer.
Note that this happens lots and lots of times to non-police officers and usually never makes the news.
It is the fact that it is a police officer that makes it newsworthy.
The federal government, and every state has publically accessible data containing court records. I search them, I read the cases.
Anyone claiming to "know something" needs to show evidence of these prosecutions and imprisonments.
4 million steroid users in the US, surely there should be at least a few hundred cases of users getting busted a year, right?
The idea that somehow, there are raids,, arrests, and prosecutions of AAS users that the publicity hungry authorities keep entirely out of the press, and more importantly, don't appear in court records, tells me they're full of shit. ESPECIALLY in light of how we see, after multi year, multi agency, MAJOR investigations they treat the "Top of the food chain", producers, distributors, with millions of dollars flowing through their operations, and the top guys get a couple of years and those below getting probation.
But yea, they're going to hunt you down over half a dozen vials of tren, and throw you in prison. Clearly that's a big priority.
All this BS about regular, non dealing, non criminal users being some kind of LE target is the "feels" equivalent of paranoia.
The only reason this cop got "prosecuted" (a slap on the wrist really) , is BECAUSE HE'S A COP, and there was evidence of dark web suppliers sending "other" things to him. Had he not been a cop, had there not been suspicion something more serious than AAS were being sent his way, nothing would've come of it. Notice it was handed off to his bosses. and not the feds who discovered it.
FFS, they have the names and addresses and evidence in hand of thousands of people getting raws every year, clear evidence of manufacturing, and they do nothing but send a letter telling them not to do it again, and making a little note in their system about it for future reference.
Do you think that's what they do when finding "raws" for drugs other than steroids? Hell no. ICE, DEA, or local LE would be at your door,