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damn this is BIG... be careful everyone.....
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I quit that mex shit along time ago.........But the same goes for gear everywhere, they are just going to look in the most obvious places first. If you are on and don't have a LEGITIMATE prescription then you're ass isn't covered.Comment
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Two problems with that press release.
What the fuck is a "street level dealer"? I can drive out of my apt, and go about 10 blocks and have someone try to sell me crack or heroin, but not ONCE has anyone tried to sell me some Test or EQ! Where are these street level dealers, and how can I find them? Shit, I would love to live in a town where the "bad" neighborhoods only had people out there "slinging steroids"! That's a really stupid way to put what they actually mean, muscle heads selling steroids in gyms. It takes alot of work to find someone to sell you some Prop, in 10 minutes I could find somone (who I have never met before) who will sell me all the crack/dust/heroin/weed I can choke down. Get your fucking prorities straight!
And this one REALLY ticks me off:
“Steroid traffickers market their product by luring young people with promises of enhanced performance and appearance,” DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy said,
Anyone who cares can look up my rants on this kind of tatic; I have said it 100 times. Nobody in the US cares about people my age (late 20's) using steroids. They only care because the govt tells them, over and over again, that I, for some reason, have an interest on getting their 8 year old daughter taking 1000mgs of test and Drol a week. What the fuck?? I can promise you that none of those websites in any REAL way targeted "young people". How exactly would you do that? Put a ad for QV on the Nickelodean website? No, trust me, there is nothing that they (steroid manufactures) could do to target children that is any more effective then what hollywood has already done (by making the steroid enhanced body mainstream). That's such a crock of shit I can't even stomach it.
Other then that, sorry to hear it and best of luck with the DEA! Sell out some of those fuckers flooding our streets with weed and crack, I won't shead a tear.Comment
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They should spend there time on the crack problem or meth problem.
let me ask you this:
Has A person who uses AS ever tried to rob you because they wanted money to buy more?
What a fucking joke
There are all these crack heads killing people and robbing.Comment
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Bro's there is a huge confusion about these Co, they were all UGL, they were illegal in Mex too, only they made gear for US customers and the pharmacies of the mexican border..... You wont see Organon owner or Schering owner would be busted for that although we all know that their stuff is very known and illegaly used in US....Comment
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Originally posted by Control
LOL,,,,heard that before..LOLComment
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Know allot of boys getting their stuff out of texas... mostly vet and tech labs or tex labs... Guess that will slow down things for them... Big brother is always watching.. people should know that by nowComment
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Okay, soooooo, what does this exactly mean in regard to these products; they are obviously not going away and if the owner's of these companies got busted, it doesn't mean they are not still producing gear now. What's funny is that when a business gets busted in Mexico one week, they re-open the next week in the same spot or right down the street with new management. These companies are corporations, not sole proprieters and gear is not illegal in Mexico. This bust just means prices will go up in the US, WAY UP, because of the risk.
Lastly, if the US government thinks that this bust is significant, they should look at their losing "War on Drugs" to really understand what they are up against. They just put a bandaid on a cracked dam hoping this would stop the problem...WELL FOLKS, IT WON'T.Comment
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Federal authorities announced yesterday that they have broken up a group of Mexican companies that supplies most of the illegal steroids used by hundreds of thousands of athletes, bodybuilders and others in the United States.
The steroid investigation resulted in the indictment of 23 people and eight Mexican companies, and was the largest in U.S. history, said John S. Fernandes, the special agent in charge of the San Diego DEA office.
Run by undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agents, Operation Gear Grinder was aimed at disrupting the flow of anabolic steroids from the Mexican labs to American gyms, high schools and locker rooms. (Gear is slang for steroids.)
"It's huge," said Dr. Don Catlin, who heads an anti-doping lab at UCLA and who works with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "It's clearly a real hit."
The head of the largest manufacturer of the drugs appeared in a San Diego federal courtroom yesterday, charged with conspiring to import and distribute steroids and to launder money.
A Mexican veterinarian, Dr. Alberto Saltiel Cohen was among those indicted, which took place in secret in September at the culmination of the nearly two-year investigation.
His three Mexico City companies – Quality Vet, Denkall and Animal Power – produce more than 75 percent of the steroids seized in the United States, prosecutors said. The other companies indicted were Laboratorios Tornel, Laboratorios Brovel, Pet's Pharma, Syd Group and Loeffler.
Mexican companies account for 82 percent of the illicit U.S. steroid supply, authorities said.
The manufacturers and distributors primarily use Web sites and e-mail to reach customers.
Saltiel and three distributors were arrested Wednesday in San Diego. A fourth distributor was arrested in Texas. U.S. officials said they are working with Mexican officials to secure the extradition of the other company executives and distributors.
The arrests did not shut down the companies, many of which still have functioning Web sites. Prosecutors said they hope Mexican authorities will go after the drug makers.
As part of the investigation, federal agents tracked or seized more than 360,000 doses of steroids.
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation agents tracked millions of dollars in payments, some of them in cash taken across the border, said Kenneth Hines, who oversees local IRS investigators. The DEA says the eight companies had $56 million a year in steroid sales to the United States.
Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of at least $15 million that they say can prove are proceeds from the companies' trafficking.
Steroids, typically a synthetic form of testosterone and other hormones, are used by bodybuilders to speed muscle growth, by athletes to develop strength and, increasingly, by high school girls to increase muscle tone.
In the United States, steroids have been illegal without a prescription since 1991. Side effects include excess body hair, acne, depression, inexplicable anger, deepening of the voice, smaller breasts in women and smaller testicles in men.
Don Hooton's son Taylor, a high-school pitcher, committed suicide less than six months after first using steroids.
Hooten and his wife of Plano, Texas, tried but failed to discover what was behind their son's mood swings, body changes, and outbursts in which he twice put his fist through walls.
"We missed it," he said. "Our family doctor missed it."
Eventually, Taylor told a psychologist about using steroids and quit soon after.
But the deepest depression can come after steroid use stops, and that's when Taylor killed himself two years ago, Hooton said.
Hooten, a marketing manager for a computer company, has started a foundation in his son's memory and become an expert on steroid abuse.
"This is important," he said of yesterday's announcement. "This is a big day."
Prosecutors said the Mexican companies market the vials and pills containing steroids mainly through the Internet and in pharmacies in such border and tourist cities as Tijuana, Nuevo Laredo and Cancun.
Saltiel's companies billed more than $11 million in orders to a single Tijuana distributor, prosecutors said.
On the Web sites, some of which are registered in Mexico but run out of servers in the United States, the companies say the drugs are for animals, and the packaging has pictures of cats and dogs.
But the potency and formulas of the drugs wouldn't work in veterinary medicine, said prosecutor Laura Duffy. "It would take a 600-pound cat or dog to effectively use these products," she said.
The distributors' Web sites make no such pretense that the drugs are for animals, using names such as Steroids Club and Roids Shop.
Agents now have the names of more than 2,000 customers – individuals and distributors – and will work with authorities in every state to decide whom to prosecute.
Bodybuilding Internet bulletin boards were buzzing yesterday.
One poster who goes by "6ft8monster" and boasts a 415-pound bench press wrote on bodybuilding.com shortly after news of the steroid announcement broke: "Damn. That's crazy. I guess it was a matter of time. I wonder how that will affect the (bodybuilding) community."
The next poster replied: "You can bet it will have a huge impact." Authorities wouldn't say whether any of those customers included professional or college-level athletes.
The types of drugs sold by the Mexican companies show up in tests given to most professional and Olympic athletes.
"This is not a sport issue," said Travis Tygart, general counsel for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "This is an issue for our country, for our youth."
He said the investigation is part of a larger crackdown on steroids – from the BALCO investigation in the San Francisco Bay Area that shut down a sophisticated lab catering to baseball, football and track-and-field athletes, to the mention of steroids in the president's State of the Union address in 2004 to increased penalties for such use in Major League Baseball.
"You have to get at the supply of these drugs in order to root out the problem," Tygart said. "It also sends a clear signal that the federal government takes these things seriously."
The border between San Diego and Tijuana, where more than 1,000 pharmacies peddle steroids, has long been known as one of the primary entry points for the drugs.
In 1987, customs investigators broke a multimillion-dollar steroid ring here, confiscating $600,000 worth of the drugs and seeking the arrest of 34 people, including prominent athletes. At the time, authorities said the ring was responsible for 70 percent of the black market nationwide.
Hooton, who said his son bought steroids from a dealer supplied by a Mexican pharmacy, said authorities can't rest now.
"Continued vigilance is absolutely necessary," he said, noting that steroids also are being produced in Eastern Europe. "Somebody's going to step in and fill the void."Comment
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I couldn't keep reading that statement. An increasing number of high school girls using AS to increase muscle tone? I am the only one that hasn't heard this before?
"Hooten, a marketing manager for a computer company, has started a foundation in his son's memory and become an expert on steroid abuse."
^that sounds like an oxymoron to me.Comment
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Where the hell do all these manly 14 year old girls hang out?
I have lots of guys in my gym ask me about steroids, and some women too, but I have yet to have a teenager even say the WORD steroid in my presence (which, if they were going to say it to someone, I don't think that they would hesitate to say it around me; I make no effort to hide my usage).
I guess one of these days all these cheerleaders are going to bust into my Golds Gym and demand that we hook them up with some T400 to "tone up"?
Are these people fucking retarted?
Originally posted by ShibbyComment
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high school girls using AS is the dumbest thing i've heard in a while, lol.... they must have to bench press a certain amount nowdays to make the cheerleading squad.Comment
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