Few police officers ever charged in steroids cases

[LeighAnn]

From the Albany Times Union

When federal agents raided a South Florida wellness clinic two years ago during an investigation targeting the illegal distribution of steroids, they carted away a client list that included dozens of police officers.
In the interest of public safety, the federal agents notified at least five police agencies across South Florida that their officers had purchased testosterone and other controlled substances from a company under scrutiny as a purported steroids mill.


Sheriff's officials in three counties launched internal investigations, as did West Palm Beach police, which identified 13 officers using steroids. The case predates an ongoing Albany-based investigation involving steroids.

In the end, none of the Florida officers was charged with a crime. The toughest response came in Lee County, on Florida's West Coast, where three correction officers were fired after sheriff's officials determined they'd lied about using the drugs.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=600108&category=ALBANY&BCCode=&newsdate=6/28/2007

[ReadTomPaine]

1. You can drop the last three words of your headline. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

3. heh-indeedy

[DemGa]

2. Oh great, cops on steroids

I would definitely support drug testing for police.

[Kiouni]

4. I have a few cop buddies and yeah,

there is a lot of steroid use. It's that jock/fraternity setting with all the younger officers that gets them. I don't think you can have IA handle drug problems because they're cops too. It has to be a civilian oversight project.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I had a good friend...

Who was once a NJ State Police Sergeant 1st Class. He was also a training officer in his barracks. He told me that the one thing that scared him shitless was all the new recruits he was seeing, not to mention some of the young but older troopers, who were taking steroids. He said that there was not only a brisk business in steroids in the locker room, but that troopers were being supplied by their barracks' PhysEd officer. It was that reason that he was getting out as soon as he could.

And he did.