In a separate raids conducted by police authorities in two states, a fitness club owner in Alabama and an active military personnel from San Antonio Texas were arrested together with other accomplices. Cooper Freeman, owner of Dynabody Fitness in Oxford, Alabama, was arrested when police raided his gym and his home where they found several steroids and syringes and other supplies. He was charged with three counts of distribution of a controlled substance and several counts of possession of a controlled substance. The commander of the drug task force, Lt. Chris Roberson said in a newspaper agency that they also found documents that proves the illegal activities of the club owner since it shows how he operates the distribution of these controlled substances.

Amanda, wife of Freeman, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance. Billy Cole, the club’s manager, was also charged with criminal conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime and possession of a controlled substance. The raids were conducted by the Calhoun/Cleburne County Drug Task Force with the help of Calhoun County Sherriff’s Office and Alcohol Beverage Control Board.

In San Antonio, Texas,  two suspects were also arrested by authorities for allegedly possessing and distributing controlled substances particularly steroids. The other suspect were believed to be an active military personnel of Air Force. The federal agents raided the home of the supects in the 800 block of North Alamo Street when they received reports that numerous suspicious packages were being delivered which were believed to be anabolic steroids. The suspects were later released pending lab results of substances taken from the house.

The spokesperson of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Deborah Sibila said that the seizure is considered as the largest of its kind ever busted by the federal agents in the area. The anabolic steroids found in suspects home were in powder form. Sibila added that agents from the DEA and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained a warrant to search the property after conducting a controlled delivery there. Since the substances will be sent to a lab in Dallas, the agencies will know the results of the testing within two weeks according to the spokesperson of the DEA.

Based on the agents reports, the anabolic steroids siezed from the house were believed to be Dianabol, also called D-Bol or Methandrostenolone, Anadrol, Winstrol, Anavar, testosterone base and testosterone propionate. Clomid, a women’s fertility drug typically used for steroid cycles and designed to boost the body’s natural production of testosterone was also found.

The two suspects will be facing separate charges from the DEA and U.S. Food and Drug Administration if the substances recovered from their possession were illegally obtained and marketed. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations will also take part in the investigation since one of the suspects is one of their personnel. The U.S. Postal Service will be investigated also for the delivery of the packages to the suspects.

According to Sibila, the steroids were being shipped in different states of the country. “They received the materials to mix together with other items in the house that were removed,” she said. “It was a trans-shipment operation; substances came in and went out in a different form.”

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