Incredibly, news sources reported NFL steroid dealer David Jacobs and girlfriend Amanda Savell were found shot to death in in their Plano Texas home today. Jacobs dealt steroids to NFL players including Cowboy/Falcon/Saint lineman Matt Lehr. Authorities now treat the deaths as homicides. To the New York Times or Deadspin.
A convicted steroids dealer who provided documentary evidence and testimony to N.F.L. officials last month that tied several players to the use of performance-enhancing drugs was found dead on Thursday morning at his home in Plano, Texas, the police said.
David Jacobs, who was convicted on federal steroid distribution charges last year, began cooperating with N.F.L. officials shortly after he was sentenced to probation in May.
His girlfriend, Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell [pictured right], 30 (myspace.org page)(her myspace page), was also found dead in the home, the police said.
Ok, who wanted this guy snuffed out and why (his myspace page)? How much did he know about the inner workings of the NFL steroids business? Or was this simply a drug deal gone bad. Deadspin points out the eerie ending to the Time's story:
We offer our sympathy to the families of David Jacobs and Amanda Jo
Earhart-Savell.As we have previously confirmed, our security representatives interviewed David Jacobs on two occasions. We are reviewing the information to determine if there is documented evidence establishing any violations of our program and will follow up on any other information that is provided. It is premature to comment on any specific player at this time. Anyone found to have violated our policies will be subject to discipline, including suspension. We will continue to be responsive to any needs of law enforcement on this matter.”
The New York Times also had this eerie little ending to their story.
“What’s new on your side of the world?” he [Jacobs] wrote in a text message on Friday. “Things here in Dallas are pretty quiet, actually.”
(more after the jump from the NY Times)
His case received national attention because a Web site for a supplements store he owned boasted that he had counseled several players on the Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons.
The New York Times reported in April that information from the government’s investigation of Jacobs had led federal prosecutors to investigate Matt Lehr, an offensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints, on the suspicion that he distributed performance-enhancing drugs.
Lehr’s lawyer denied that his client ever sold steroids or human growth hormone and said Jacobs fabricated information about Lehr after he refused to pay Jacobs’s legal fees. Jacobs said he never asked Lehr for money.
At least one other N.F.L. player was summoned to testify before a grand jury related to the government’s investigation.
Telephone and e-mail messages left for Jacobs’s lawyer were not immediately returned Thursday.
The Plano police said the investigation was continuing.
Jacobs had been charged in September as part of Operation Raw Deal, a sprawling investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration that focused on dozens of suspected distributors of performance-enhancing drugs who were accused of purchasing raw materials from foreign countries.
For over a year, Jacobs operated a make-shift steroids lab out of his kitchen where he would turn raw powder from China into steroids.
The day Jacobs was sentenced he said he was willing to share names with the league, “Only if the N.F.L. guarantees their lives won’t be destroyed like mine.”
Jacobs said that N.F.L. officials were banging on the door of his house at 9 a.m. the morning after he was sentenced. The investigators, he said, were “trying to find out what I knew.”
Jacobs and his lawyer provided N.F.L. investigators with the documentary evidence on May 21 at a meeting in the Dallas-area.
N.F.L. officials were said to be examining the evidence provided by Jacobs to determine whether to seek discipline against those players.
“We offer our sympathy to the families of David Jacobs and Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell,” the N.F.L. said in a statement. “As we have previously confirmed, our security representatives interviewed David Jacobs on two occasions. We are reviewing the information to determine if there is documented evidence establishing any violations of our program and will follow up on any other information that is provided. It is premature to comment on any specific player at this time. Anyone found to have violated our policies will be subject to discipline, including suspension. We will continue to be responsive to any needs of law enforcement on this matter.”
Since his meeting with N.F.L. officials, Jacobs said he had been rebuilding his life. He had been working as a bouncer at a club in Dallas.
“What’s new on your side of the world?” he wrote in a text message on Friday. “Things here in Dallas are pretty quiet, actually.”
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