Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control and the Tulsa Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit are continuing to target competitive bodybuilders in an ongoing anabolic steroid investigation that has implicated several amateur and professional bodybuilders in an alleged Oklahoma steroid trafficking network since December 2007. Over 75 individuals have been interviewed and a grand jury has convened to investigate the distribution of anabolic steroids and performance enhancement drugs in Oklahoma (”Anabolic steroids seized from Bixby home,” November 25).
OBNDD officials declined to comment on the seizures, but court records show that they are part of an ongoing investigation, and sources have told the Tulsa World of a recent grand jury investigation into the use and distribution of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancement drugs in the Tulsa area.
Since December 2007, agents have seized a “large quantity of anabolic steroids from several unrelated individuals” in the Tulsa area, according to the affidavit, signed by an undercover agent who is a legal expert on the illegal use of performance-enhancement drugs.
Most recently, the OBNDDC and Tulsa Police, armed with search warrants, seized several vials of anabolic steroids and steroid paraphernalia during searches of the home of NPC national-level amateur bodybuilder Chris Waid on October 23, 2008. Read more
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control and the Tulsa Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit are preparing to make arrests in a major steroid bust in Oklahoma involving a gym owner and supplement store owner (Chris Goodman) along with at least one amateur bodybuilder (Keith Koppenhaver) and one professional bodybuilder (Guy Ducasse).
Chris Goodman is allegedly a major distributor of anabolic steroids and performance enhancement drugs in Tulsa. Goodman is the owner of Hi-Octane Fitness (formerly Physical Edge) and co-owner of Supplement Shak stores in Oklahoma City and Tulsa (”Probe nets steroids tied to Tulsa fitness center,” April 20).
Undercover officers have discovered evidence of steroid use at the fitness center and distribution by either Goodman or other members at the fitness center, according to court records.
That evidence includes syringes, bank statements, computer software, cell phone records and financial records belonging to either Goodman or the fitness center.
A confidential informant has told undercover officers that Goodman was “actively distributing steroids” and that “individuals associated with Physical Edge often use and/or distribute steroids,” according to court records.
NPC bodybuilder Keith Koppenhaver, who last competed at the 2000 NPC Junior Nationals, has also been implicated. Koppenhaver was a personal trainer at Physical Edge (Hi-Octane) and a friend of Chris Goodman.
Undercover officers seized several types of steroids, human growth hormone, insulin and other dangerous, controlled substances from Koppenhaver’s home or property, according to court records.
He has admitted to undercover officers that he sold steroids and never pays taxes from those sales or the money that he receives as a personal trainer, according to court records.
He has identified Goodman and a professional bodybuilder in the Oklahoma City area as his steroid suppliers, according to court records.
The IFBB Professional bodybuilder connected to the steroid distribution case is Guy Ducasse, a trainer at Sky Fitness & Wellbeing who last competed at the 2007 IFBB Europa Pro show (”Arrests expected in Tulsa steroids investigation,” April 19).
Tulsa County District Court records filed Wednesday show that officers recently searched the home and found vials of popular muscle-building steroids and human growth hormone. Among the substances found were testosterone, nandrolone decanate and stanozolol.
Also seized were e-mails to Ducasse “instructing him on bodybuilding drug use,” “handwritten notes regarding steroid cycles,” a “weekly steroid use schedule” and “7 pages of clients,” who are believed to be members of Sky Fitness & Wellbeing, 10121 S. Sheridan Road, according to the court records.
An employee at the fitness center said Friday that Ducasse trains clients at the facility.
Bad news for Oklahoma bodybuilding.
