Steroid sales probe nets four arrests
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A New York prosecutor said athletes and celebrities were involved as customers in an illicit Internet-based steroid sales network that produced at least four arrests yesterday.
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THREE jockeys and a trainer were arrested today in a probe into alleged fixing of horse races. More than 130 officers raided 19 addresses across Suffolk, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire and arrested 12 people for conspiracy to defraud.
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Major League Baseball officials have taken steps to contact federal investigators involved in a crackdown on the import of Chinese steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to determine whether baseball players are entangled in the probe, an MLB spokesman said yesterday.
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Four men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences as part of a planned operation by the Metropolitan Police. The men are suspected of attempting to buy radioactive material for
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Cisco Systems Inc. said today that four of its workers in Brazil were under arrest in connection with an alleged scheme to import Cisco gear and evade taxes.
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Four people were arrested in the United States Monday on charges of spying for China in two separate cases, including one involving the US space shuttle, the Justice Department said.
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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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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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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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Months after launching a federal investigation, authorities yesterday arrested a Connecticut man for selling the source code for Microsoft&#39;s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems over the Internet.
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Albany County (N.Y.) prosecutors meet with representatives from the Mitchell Commission who are investigating the use of performance-enhancing drugs in MLB.
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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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Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn launched an investigation Friday into potential fraud and abuse in a foster care system that spends $4 million a year on mind-altering drugs, even for children of preschool age.
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The steroid known as &quot;the clear,&quot; which in recent days has been linked to Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Marion Jones and is at the center of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) scandal
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Los Angeles Angels outfielder Garry Matthews Jr. has been linked to a two-year investigation by the Albany County district attorney into an illegal steroid-distribution network.
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Federal agents today arrested four people on espionage charges, including a Defense Department employee from Alexandria, and accused them of passing classified information to China that included details about the Space Shuttle and U.S. military sales to Taiwan.
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Four people are arrested in the United States for allegedly passing secret information to China.