The steroids distribution in Tulsa Oklahoma appears to be widening. The Tulsa World reports significant interest in high school coaches of illegal steroid abuse by area teenagers.
Tulsa and state undercover officers are investigating whether suspected steroid dealers are selling performance enhancement drugs to high school students.
Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Nar cotics and Dangerous Drugs Control's office in Oklahoma City, said agents have received a significant number of calls in recent months from high school coaches concerned about rapid gains in weight and strength among their players. Woodward would not name the schools or coaches, but he said they were in large and small districts.
An affidavit filed last week in Tulsa County District Court says the state drug agency and Tulsa Police Department have been investigating the illegal use and distribution of performance-enhancement drugs in the Tulsa area for approximately three months.
Area high school coaches said in interviews this week that the possibility of student-athletes using steroids is a legitimate concern.
"I would not be surprised if it hit the high-school age," said Allan Trimble, the head football coach at Jenks High School. "To me, it's like any other controlled substance. It's available, and in some people's eyes, you might get an advantage from using it."
Tulsa investigators discovered the steroid ring at a local gym the Steroid Physical Edge in December 2007.
Undercover officers seized several types of steroids, human growth hormone, insulin and other dangerous, controlled substances from Koppenhaver's home or property, according to court records.
Papers also reported area police involvement in illicit steroid distribution. This distribution allegedly occurred at the Sky Fitness & Wellbeing. (from the Tulsa World)
Court records show that a spe cial agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs Control office in Tulsa and an undercover officer in the Tulsa Police Department's Special Investigations Unit seized syringes, needles and vials that indicated use of the illegal performance enhancement drugs from the trash outside a house in the 7500 block of East 88th Street on March 25.
The address is the home of Coweta Police Officer Zachary Livingston, his wife, Jennifer Livingston, and professional bodybuilder Guy Ducasse, the main focus of the investigation, according to an affidavit seeking a search warrant.
The Tulsa area looks to be pretty juiced-up.
selling steriods to teenagers is increasing. selling steriods without prescription is illegal.
Posted by: HGH | 04/24/2008 at 06:17