United States Attorney General Eric Holder praised the Justice Department’s use of terrorism laws to disrupt the illegal distribution of human growth hormone (hGH) during his remarks at a Justice Department leadership conference. Holder celebrated the use of the Patriot Act to eliminate a top supplier of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). The Patriot Act law “permitted” the […]
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Bodybuilders, Personal Trainers and Gym Owner Arrested in Texas Steroid Bust
Operation Farmacia de Juicy Phruit is the code name for the major steroid bust in Houston led by the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department involving the arrest of 73 defendants. The “largest narcotics operation in the history of Fort Bend County” primarily involved the arrest of personal trainers, their clients, bodybuilders, a professional bodybuilder and […]
Gavin Kane Avoids Prison Time for Role in Jintropin HGH Distribution Network
Jeffrey J. Rock, better known as Gavin Kane in the bodybuilding world, was recently sentenced to 5 years probation and 15 months community and home confinement for his role in the Internet distribution of Jintropin human growth hormone in the United States. Jeffrey Rock operated as an internet HGH source using the alias Propeptides. He marketed […]
China Revokes GeneScience Pharmaceuticals License for Jintropin Human Growth Hormone
China announced the revocation of the GeneScience Pharmaceutical license to manufacturer Jintropin brand human growth hormone. This represents a major success in efforts towards the internationalization of steroid and doping law by the United States. The U.S. federal government indicted CEO Lei Jin and GeneScience Pharmaceutical Inc. last fall as part of Operation Raw Deal (“China Cracks Down […]
Steroid Ignorance Pervasive in Toledo Ohio
Several weeks ago, the Toledo Blade Newspaper in Ohio erroneously identified clenbuterol and/or human growth hormone as anabolic steroids in the case of Johnathan Roumaya. Roumaya was sentenced on Monday for the misdemeanor charge of possession of dangerous drugs. The Toledo Blade once again erred in calling the confiscated drug(s) anabolic steroids (“Oregon bar workers […]
Steroid Fact Checking at the Toledo Blade Newspaper
I would expect that most journalists would have a basic understanding of anabolic steroids given that the topic has been a major news story for several years now. But journalists still fail to perform their “steroid fact checking” when writing stories on the topic. The Toledo Blade Newspaper out of Ohio published a story about […]