Feds announce largest steroid crackdown
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. &#151; Federal authorities announced the largest crackdown on illegal steroids in the nation's history Monday, arresting more than 120 people and raiding dozens of labs that manufactured growth hormone for sale on the black market.
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President Bush on Friday signed legislation that would curtail sales of steroid precursors and seek to stiffen penalties for offenses involving anabolic steroids.
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The West Coast had BALCO. Now the East Coast could be in the midst of its own steroid scandal. An illicit steroid distribution network, which may be responsible for Internet sales of performance-enhancing drugs nationwide, has been targeted by an upstate New York prosecutor. Customers reportedly included Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr., former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and former baseball star Jose Canseco.
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German officials said they launched raids against international doping rings beginning late last week. The searches of homes and offices in cities across Germany resulted in one arrest; 20 others are being investigated. The raids by Germany's Federal Crime Office (BKA) were part of an international investigation into illegal trade in steroids, codenamed "Raw Deal" and run by US authorities, BKA authorities said on Monday, Sept. 24. Law enforcement authorities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Poland, Spain, Israel and Australia had found underground laboratories for steroids and other banned substances as well as pirated copies of drugs, according to a statement by the BKA.
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U.S. agents smashed a Mexican drug trafficking network by arresting more than 400 people and seizing over 18 tonnes of narcotics, authorities said on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Defendants charged with distributing illegal steroids to some of the nation&#39;s best-known athletes were subjected to illegal searches and coerced by federal investigators, defense lawyers said Friday.
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US law enforcers have arrested dozens in a crackdown on &quot;spam&quot; e-mail, identity theft and other fraudulent online activity, a person involved in the investigation says.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Authorities broke up a suspected steroid ring in Florida on Tuesday that is accused of distributing anti-aging treatments to celebrities and muscle-building drugs to professional athletes.
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Government health officials on Wednesday began cracking down on Internet sales of custom-mixed hormones for menopausal women, a market born when doctors deemed prescription estrogen therapy too risky for many
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The federal government has raided 56 sites in the United States and seized 242 kilograms of steroid and 1.4 million steroid dosage units.
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Acting on recommendations in the Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball cracked down on clubhouse security Monday in an effort to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell released his report on steroid use in Major League Baseball today and said the use of performance-enhancing drugs within the sport was "widespread" for more than a decade.
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In what is being called the largest global crackdown ever conducted, the US Department of Justice&#39;s &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot; has led to over 100 arrests.
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U.S. regulators said on Wednesday they would crack down on marketing of an unapproved injectable anti-gout drug which has been linked to 23 deaths.
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Major League Baseball officials and the Players Association on Thursday will announce agreement on a new steroids testing program.
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Baseball Representatives of former Senator George Mitchell's commission examining illicit steroid use in Major League Baseball are scheduled to meet today with Albany County (N.Y.) prosecutors, who are investigating a nationwide drug distribution network. In their first meeting in March, prosecutors said they did not turn over any player names. Prosecutors and investigators have spent months sifting through thousands of ...
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WASHINGTON The Justice Department has announced that more than 150 people have been arrested, charged or convicted in the past three months in a crackdown on criminal activity on the Internet.