Othala Labs Busted in North Carolina

The people running the underground lab “Othala Labs” were arrested in North Carolina last Thursday by officers from the Gastonia Police Department. Christopher K. Gore and Brad Jonathan Dyer were arrested and each released on $150,000 unsecured bond (“Police find thousands of grams of steroids,” March 23).

Christopher K. Gore… faces charges of possessing steroids, manufacturing steroids, possessing steroids with the intent to sell and deliver them, labeling counterfeit steroids, maintaining a residence for keeping steroids, maintaining a vehicle to keep and sell steroids and conspiring to violate state law by distributing anabolic steroids…

Dyer faces charges of possessing steroids, possessing steroids with the intent to sell and deliver them, selling and delivering steroids and conspiring to violate state law by distributing anabolic steroids.

Othala Labs was actually busted last summer (June 2007) when local authorities discovered anabolic steroids in Gore’s residence whose entire perimeter was surrounded by a chain link fence and guarded by three boxer dogs. Shortly afterwards, the primary internet source of Othala Labs was accused of turning “scammer” on the Internet message boards.

Police found more than 700 tablets and almost 3,000 grams of various kinds of steroids in June 2007, according to warrants.

Gore sold Brad Jonathan Dyer, 26, of the 800 block of East Zion Church Road, Shelby, 10 bottles of steroids, according to arrest warrants…

Police found Dyer had more than 200 tablets of two different kinds of anabolic steroids and 22 bottles of three different types of steroids in June 2007, according to arrest warrants. Dyer attempted to sell three types of steroid, according to arrest warrants.

It is unclear why it took 9 months before arrest warrants were issued.

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Millard writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.