The interim heavyweight champion of the UFC lost his recent title fight against Brock Lesnar in July. It was the first loss of Shane Carwin since he joined the UFC in 2008. Carwin is considered as one of the best heavyweight fighters in UFC. He has a clean record, with good fights and no record of any positive test for steroids. His fight with Lesnar was free of steroids based on the steroid tests conducted by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. But Carwin needs to explain the inclusion of his name as one of the clients of Applied Pharmacy Services in Alabama which is involved in the illegal distribution of anabolic steroids.

The name of Shane Carwin was mentioned in the sentencing of one of the respondents in the APS case. The federal court sentenced J. Michael Bennett, a supervising pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services, to spend 4 years in jail for participating in a nationwide conspiracy to sell anabolic steroids. Assistant U.S. attorney Donna Dobbins said that Carwin was one of the 22 professional athletes who purchased steroids from the APS. There were records showing the names and initials of athletes and the type of anabolic steroids they ordered.

Mobile Case is one of the largest steroid distribution rings in the country and it involves several doctors who connived with the pharmacy owners in prescribing illegal steroids. Based on the records, there are at least 762,000 dosages of anabolic steroids purchased and sent to 17 doctors and clinics from April 4, 2004 to August 30, 2006. This is aside from the unrecorded transactions of the pharmacy.

Other names also came out based on the report of the Press Register. Most of them were professional wrestlers and bodybuilders. There were also two professional baseball players and a professional fighter with an initial of S.C. which purportedly refers to Shane Carwin. The wrestlers were Kurt Angle and Bob “Hardcore Bob Holly” Howard. The bodybuilders who also bought steroids from the pharmacy were Toney Freeman, Quincy Taylor, Dennis Newman and Troy Zuccolotto. There were also previous reports that Jose Canseco, Gary Matthews Jr. and Evander Holyfield were also clients of the pharmacy.

Court documents showed that the client with the initials of S.C. and described as a professional fighter ordered several types of anabolic steroids from January to August 2006. The cocktail of steroids ordered from the pharmacy were Trenbolone, Testosterone, injectable Stanozolol and Nandrolone. The clinic, Infinite Health that provided S.C. with the illegal prescription, was also located in Colorado where Carwin resides.

According to US prosecutor Dobbins, the steroids were intended for livestock use and considered as very potent anabolic steroids. “These steroids are for horses and cows, not for young people and humans,” she told the media. The clients mentioned in the sentencing of Bennett were not included in the case. However, those professional athletes mentioned have to explain to the public why they were involved in the steroid scandal. For Shane Carwin, he has a lot of things to explain especially that he never tested positive for any of the substances he allegedly purchased from the Applied Pharmacy Services.

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