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It's looks like the Mod at Meso was wrong. Anointed was in fact busted:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/8132674.htm
Lexingtonians charged with selling steroids
NEW TYPE OF CRIME CARRIES STIFF PENALTY; BOTH PLEAD NOT GUILTY
By Louise Taylor
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Two Lexington men, one a medical salesman and the other a University of Kentucky senior, have been charged with trafficking in muscle-building steroids in an operation that search warrants claim reached across the United States.
Until 1991, the sale of anabolic steroids wasn't criminal, but these days the pair could land in prison for five years and face a $250,000 fine if convicted. And they are facing charges that state and federal prosecutors are pressing more and more frequently across the United States amid growing criticism of professional athletes who use performance-enhancing hormones.
Last month in San Francisco, a higher-profile case grabbed the headlines when baseball great Barry Bonds' personal trainer, a famous track coach and two executives of a nutrition company were indicted on similar trafficking charges.
Arrested in Lexington were: David Connerth, 24, a representative of Plus Orthopedics, a company that sells prosthetic hips and knees; and Mark Pirschel, also 24, a UK senior who studies engineering and roomed with Connerth and a third man, who has not been arrested.
Both Connerth and Pirschel have pleaded not guilty; Connerth's case is awaiting action by the Fayette grand jury and Pirschel is due in court this week for a preliminary hearing.
Search warrants say Connerth used a false company name, Computer Innovations, as a front for the illicit steroid business, which used Mailbox Express in the Brighton Place Shoppes as its address.
At Connerth's home, police found more than 5,000 pills "believed to be steroids," more than 30 vials of liquid steroids, an unspecified amount of cash, banking records, three guns and other items, according to inventories of property seized during a search.
Caller tipped off police
None of the steroid buyers named in the search warrants was a well-known athlete. Steroids are used by an estimated three million Americans, including amateur bodybuilders and those who simply want to look buff.
Connerth's attorney, Burl McCoy, said that his client, a native of Western Kentucky who graduated from Transylvania University in 2000, is maintaining his innocence. McCoy said he suspects the case will be turned over to federal prosecutors.
"There's not much I can tell you about the case," McCoy said. "But he seems like a bright young man, and he looks forward to moving on with this case and with his life."
Lee Rowland, who represents Pirschel, said he has seen no evidence that his client is guilty of any crime at all. Pir-schel was merely Connerth's roommate, he said.
Pirschel is charged with trafficking and possession of ster-oids, but is mentioned only once in the search warrants filed in the case: He was with Connerth in a Toyota Land Cruiser and went with him to the Blue Moon, a nightclub in Chevy Chase.
The Lexington police first got wind of the alleged steroid-selling scheme in August, when an anonymous caller said Connerth was selling steroids from his home at 1037 Kavenaugh, according to search warrants sworn out by detective C.D. Schnelle.
Over the next six months, the caller left four more tips, including information that Connerth dealt the steroids over the Internet, worked out at Gold's Gym, rented a storage unit, had a girlfriend named Tiffany in Alabama, and used FedEx to send money to Birmingham.
U.S. postal inspectors in St. Louis and Mississippi were picking up the steroid scent, too. First, on Jan. 24, inspectors intercepted a package postmarked Lexington that had been sent to Mississippi; when they searched it, they found steroids. The addressee, Gary Ward, told them he had ordered the hormone over the Internet from a person he knew only as "Roidraid," a search warrant says.
In St. Louis, the postal inspectors noticed a suspicious pattern in Express Mail deliveries to Tracy Koewing in New Haven, Mo. When confronted Feb. 20, Koewing told inspectors that she had been recruited by Connerth to receive and send steroids and money.
Late that night -- at 11:15 -- the Lexington police got a warrant to search Connerth's house, where they found a stash of what they think are illegal steroids.
Steroid hysteria cited
Richard D. Collins, a New York lawyer who specializes in steroid defense, wrote in a professional journal that seizures of steroids are often large because of the way they are used -- in cycles. Police often misidentify them, too, he wrote in a 2002 article for The Champion, the magazine published by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Collins, who was out of his office last week, wrote that steroids are unfairly considered a Schedule III drug alongside methamphetamine, barbiturates and other potent drugs -- all thanks to anti-steroid propaganda erupting from "cheating" scandals in professional sports.
The steroid hysteria, Collins said, has prompted some judges and juries "to view anabolic steroids as an even greater social menace than narcotics." Collins wrote that steroids are fairly harmless when used properly: "Many more people have died or been permanently injured from botched liposuctions and other cosmetic surgery procedures in the past few years than in over 40 years of non-medical anabolic steroid use."
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/8132674.htm
Lexingtonians charged with selling steroids
NEW TYPE OF CRIME CARRIES STIFF PENALTY; BOTH PLEAD NOT GUILTY
By Louise Taylor
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Two Lexington men, one a medical salesman and the other a University of Kentucky senior, have been charged with trafficking in muscle-building steroids in an operation that search warrants claim reached across the United States.
Until 1991, the sale of anabolic steroids wasn't criminal, but these days the pair could land in prison for five years and face a $250,000 fine if convicted. And they are facing charges that state and federal prosecutors are pressing more and more frequently across the United States amid growing criticism of professional athletes who use performance-enhancing hormones.
Last month in San Francisco, a higher-profile case grabbed the headlines when baseball great Barry Bonds' personal trainer, a famous track coach and two executives of a nutrition company were indicted on similar trafficking charges.
Arrested in Lexington were: David Connerth, 24, a representative of Plus Orthopedics, a company that sells prosthetic hips and knees; and Mark Pirschel, also 24, a UK senior who studies engineering and roomed with Connerth and a third man, who has not been arrested.
Both Connerth and Pirschel have pleaded not guilty; Connerth's case is awaiting action by the Fayette grand jury and Pirschel is due in court this week for a preliminary hearing.
Search warrants say Connerth used a false company name, Computer Innovations, as a front for the illicit steroid business, which used Mailbox Express in the Brighton Place Shoppes as its address.
At Connerth's home, police found more than 5,000 pills "believed to be steroids," more than 30 vials of liquid steroids, an unspecified amount of cash, banking records, three guns and other items, according to inventories of property seized during a search.
Caller tipped off police
None of the steroid buyers named in the search warrants was a well-known athlete. Steroids are used by an estimated three million Americans, including amateur bodybuilders and those who simply want to look buff.
Connerth's attorney, Burl McCoy, said that his client, a native of Western Kentucky who graduated from Transylvania University in 2000, is maintaining his innocence. McCoy said he suspects the case will be turned over to federal prosecutors.
"There's not much I can tell you about the case," McCoy said. "But he seems like a bright young man, and he looks forward to moving on with this case and with his life."
Lee Rowland, who represents Pirschel, said he has seen no evidence that his client is guilty of any crime at all. Pir-schel was merely Connerth's roommate, he said.
Pirschel is charged with trafficking and possession of ster-oids, but is mentioned only once in the search warrants filed in the case: He was with Connerth in a Toyota Land Cruiser and went with him to the Blue Moon, a nightclub in Chevy Chase.
The Lexington police first got wind of the alleged steroid-selling scheme in August, when an anonymous caller said Connerth was selling steroids from his home at 1037 Kavenaugh, according to search warrants sworn out by detective C.D. Schnelle.
Over the next six months, the caller left four more tips, including information that Connerth dealt the steroids over the Internet, worked out at Gold's Gym, rented a storage unit, had a girlfriend named Tiffany in Alabama, and used FedEx to send money to Birmingham.
U.S. postal inspectors in St. Louis and Mississippi were picking up the steroid scent, too. First, on Jan. 24, inspectors intercepted a package postmarked Lexington that had been sent to Mississippi; when they searched it, they found steroids. The addressee, Gary Ward, told them he had ordered the hormone over the Internet from a person he knew only as "Roidraid," a search warrant says.
In St. Louis, the postal inspectors noticed a suspicious pattern in Express Mail deliveries to Tracy Koewing in New Haven, Mo. When confronted Feb. 20, Koewing told inspectors that she had been recruited by Connerth to receive and send steroids and money.
Late that night -- at 11:15 -- the Lexington police got a warrant to search Connerth's house, where they found a stash of what they think are illegal steroids.
Steroid hysteria cited
Richard D. Collins, a New York lawyer who specializes in steroid defense, wrote in a professional journal that seizures of steroids are often large because of the way they are used -- in cycles. Police often misidentify them, too, he wrote in a 2002 article for The Champion, the magazine published by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Collins, who was out of his office last week, wrote that steroids are unfairly considered a Schedule III drug alongside methamphetamine, barbiturates and other potent drugs -- all thanks to anti-steroid propaganda erupting from "cheating" scandals in professional sports.
The steroid hysteria, Collins said, has prompted some judges and juries "to view anabolic steroids as an even greater social menace than narcotics." Collins wrote that steroids are fairly harmless when used properly: "Many more people have died or been permanently injured from botched liposuctions and other cosmetic surgery procedures in the past few years than in over 40 years of non-medical anabolic steroid use."
