Philon initially said he had just completed his own cycle and was taking a week off and would provide the drugs to the source when he resumed, the complaint states. The source asked whether he or she could start earlier, and Philon said he would try to get the steroids, the complaint states.
The source made arrangements to meet Philon at a Publix supermarket on State Road 54 in Pasco. There, Philon gave the source a plastic sandwich bag with 10 pink tablets of Dianabol, the complaint states. Philon told the source how to use the pills.
This reprsents a 1 to 5 day supply of the anabolic steroid methandrostenolone for most bodybuilders.
The Sports Illustrated version of the history of anabolic steroids in sports is now available online in its entirety with the launch of SI Vault.
Sports Illustrated on March 20 plans to unveil SI Vault, a new section within SI.com that will feature digitized archives of the magazine’s complete collection of content throughout its 54-year history. At launch, the online archive will feature 150,000 articles, 500,000 images and 2,800 covers…
Sports Illustrated has documented the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports for several decades. Now, every steroid article, every growth hormone article, every doping article is available to read for free at the SI Vault.
Charles “Modi” Modiano of Cosellout has begun the process of indexing several anabolic steroid articles that we feel MESO-Rx will find particularly interesting (”SI Vault: Sports Illustrated’s 40 Years of Steroids Coverage,” April 2). Of course, Sports Illustrated, from the beginning and throughout its historic coverage of anabolic steroids, has been instrumental in encouraging a climate of steroid hysteria that made the dispassionate, scientific discussion of anabolic steroids almost impossible.
To our knowledge Bil Gilbert’s extensive three part series in 1969 is SI’s first substantial foray into the subject of PEDS with it’s second part on baseball a must-read for historical context. The next 15 years marked many steroid/PED discoveries in sports like Olympics track & field, cycling, and body-building, but wouldn’t receive major attention or cover treatement (see Brian Bosworth) until the NCAA and NFL football became exposed in the latter 1980s. In the 1998, the Olympics took center stage as Ben Johnson was “busted” on SI’s cover. One year later SI printed another article that contained allegations against Carl Lewis and Florence Griffith-Joyner but few heard of the story. In 1991, former NFL star Lyle Alzado personally blamed his impending death on steroid abuse, but doctors could not corroborate such a claim. However, this SI cover story’s set a tone of “steroids scare” that would make it almost difficult to have reasonable discussions on the health risks of Steroids/PEDs for another 20 years.
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Department in Tampa, Florida sent a SWAT team into a residential neighborhood to arrest an officer for selling 10 tablets of Dianabol (methandrostenolone) to a confidential source (CS). That was the only crime he committed as listed in the criminal complaint.
Philon met with the CS in the parking lot at the CS’ vehicle. During that time, agents were able to observe PHILON give the CS a package and receive money from the CS. The CS was then met by agents where he/she turned over a plastic sandwich bag with 10 pink tablets of Dianabol. The CS stated that when PHILON provided the 10 Dianabol pills to him/her PHILON also gave verbal instructions to CS on how to use the Dianabol pills.
The local media and Sheriff’s Department strongly implied that Philon was involved in a much larger criminal enterprise involving the illegal distribution and diversion of 100,000 tablets of Oxycodone from a pharmacy warehouse. Another deputy was arrested on the same day for his involvement in the Oxycodone drug distribution ring.
I have seen no documents to confirm suggestions that Philon had any involvement in Oxycodone trafficking; apparently his only crime involved the sale of 10 tablets of Dianabol.
However, since the CS (confidential source) was involved in the Oxycodone drug ring and Philon sold Dianabol to the CS, the Sheriff’s Department and local media reported that Philon was arrested as part of the Oxycodone investigation.
There is a big difference between someone selling 10 tablets of Dianabol and a person selling 100,000 tablets of the narcotic Oxycontin. I think it is grossly unfair and irresponsible for the media (and Sheriff’s Department) to tarnish Philon’s reputation by suggesting he was guilty of the latter crime if in fact this is false. (Watch Sheriff Bob White’s press conference outside of Rodney Philon’s home to see what I mean.)
I ask readers to please correct me if I am wrong on the facts in this investigation.
Another internet-based anabolic steroid source arrested in Opeartion Raw Deal in the fall of 2007 has pleaded guilty. Robert Cashmon of New Hampshire pleaded guilty to six counts including “possession of anabolic steroids with intent to distribute,” “conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids,” “receipt in interstate commerce of misbranded drugs” and “laundering of monetary instruments.” Specific steroids sold by Cashmon as cited in the indictment include oxymetholone, methandrostenolone and misbranded stanozolol (misbranded as CP Winstrol).
Cashmon is scheduled for sentencing on April 28, 2008.
A Libyan national tried to import 24, 000 tablets of Anabol also known as Dianabol or methandrostenolone into Malta. Anabolic steroids are considered “restricted medicines” in Malta. Even though Maltese officials recommend that foreigners carry a doctor’s prescription for prescription pharmaceuticals such as steroids, Malta effectively allows foreigners to bring anabolic steroids into the country for personal use:
Maltese law does not specify what should happen when a foreigner wants to import medicines for his own personal use.
However, if the Maltese courts determine the quantity of anabolic steroids constitutes commercial quantities, then steroid distribution charges apply.
The Maltese case reveals some of the creative methods steroid smugglers use to import anabolic steroids. The 24,000 Anabol tablets were concealed within 24 cans of chickpeas, which were resealed and repackaged.
Another prominent bodybuilder was recently charged with “possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver.” NPC Bodybuilder Eddie Moyzan, recently featured in advertisements for Gaspari Nutrition, was arrested for selling the anabolic steroids Dianabol (methandrostenolone) and Anavar (oxandrolone) to an undercover police officer on two occassions at the Gold’s Gym in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.
The transactions allegedly occurred over one year ago. The Bethlehem State Police refused to explain why it took so long to file charges. Eddie Moyzan is free on $50,000 unsecured bond.
