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A Nixa man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to his role in a $180,000 conspiracy to smuggle anabolic steroids from China and sell them over the Internet to customers in the United States, according to John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
Mikal Gunn Schrage, 29, also pleaded guilty to a related money-laundering conspiracy.
Schrage admitted he had placed numerous orders via e-mail for steroids in raw form, using fictitious names to send wire transfers to his Chinese suppliers. He then manufactured the raw form into steroids that he sold over the Internet and shipped to customers throughout the U.S.
He will forfeit to the government $180,195 received in exchange for the distribution of steroids, equity ($46,230) in his Nixa home, a 2002 Cadillac Escalade, $36,701 that was seized from him by law enforcement officers and $9,370 that was seized from a bank account.
Under federal statutes, Schrage could be subject to a sentence of 28 years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine up to $1 million.
Mikal Gunn Schrage, 29, also pleaded guilty to a related money-laundering conspiracy.
Schrage admitted he had placed numerous orders via e-mail for steroids in raw form, using fictitious names to send wire transfers to his Chinese suppliers. He then manufactured the raw form into steroids that he sold over the Internet and shipped to customers throughout the U.S.
He will forfeit to the government $180,195 received in exchange for the distribution of steroids, equity ($46,230) in his Nixa home, a 2002 Cadillac Escalade, $36,701 that was seized from him by law enforcement officers and $9,370 that was seized from a bank account.
Under federal statutes, Schrage could be subject to a sentence of 28 years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine up to $1 million.
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