Police arrested Mobareki on one count each of possession and dealing marijuana, six counts of possessing a controlled substance and seven counts of dealing those drugs.
Police have been monitoring his activities at the Center Grove Health Club in Greenwood, Indiana where Mobareki worked as a personal trainer.
Mr. Indiana Joseph Mobareki has competed in various amateur bodybuilding contests since 2000, including NPC Indiana Bodybuilding Championships, IFBB North American Championships, NPC USA contest and NPC Junior Nationals.
Masters bodybuilding competitor Mark J. Sangiuliano (aka Marc Sangiuliano) was arrested and charged with “second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance” identified as anabolic steroids. MSNBC reports that Marc was arrested by federal authorities; however, the ABC television affiliate in Louiseville, Kentucky WHAS-TV reports that deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department arrested Sangiuliano at his home in St. Matthews, Kentucky. Court records show an arraignment scheduled for February 5, 2008 in the case of Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Mark J. Sangiuliano.
Sangiuliano told WHAS-TV that the steroids were for personal use only and that the trafficking charged was related to fertility medications and had nothing to do with bodybuilding; he also stated that he could not afford to obtain from a physician:
The whole thing revolves around me and my wife trying to get pregnant. It has nothing to do with athletics or steroids.
