The New York Post informs readers of a huge steroids sting that napped a NYPD official. Story here.
An NYPD deputy chief was hit with internal charges for allegedly buying human growth hormone at a Brooklyn pharmacy raided in a steroid sting last year, sources said Wednesday.
Deputy Chief Michael Marino's name was among 27 NYPD customers discovered after investigators seized records and $8 million worth of steroids and HGH from Lowens Compounding Pharmacy in Bay Ridge in October.
After his name surfaced, Marino took and passed a drug test and initially was cleared by top brass, a move the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association said smacked of favoritism.
An ongoing investigation, however, found Marino had been issued a prescription for HGH even though it wasn't medically necessary, sources said.
Marino, executive officer of patrol borough Brooklyn North, was charged with conduct prejudicial to the department for possession and use of steroids and/or HGH outside standard medical care, sources said.
The NYPD will begin random drug testing for steroids July 1.
Incredible. Eight million dollars of juice and gear some of it to NYPD members. Guys who should be emotionally stable, and legally forthright, on the juice. At least random testing will begin this summer. Look for your NYPD to be more slender, kinda like the look sported by those MLB sluggers this year.
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