One of the steroid dealers for former Canby Police Officer Jason Duncan Deason pleaded guilty to one count of delivery of a controlled substance. Brian Jackson, a former strength and condition coach for the Oregon City High School girls basketball team, was sentenced to 30 days Clackamas County jail and two years probation after admitting to selling steroids to Officer Deason. Jackson remains the subject of an FBI investigation into whether he sold steroids to other police officers and/or minors. The 350-pound Brian Jackson once told an informant that he did not fear criminal prosecution because his customers were cops (”Former Oregon City coach pleads guilty in steroids case,” May 21).
Clackamas County Circuit Judge Douglas V. Van Dyk ordered Jackson not to use or possess any steroids or human growth hormone, nor any alcohol or drugs and to pay a $107 fine to the court.
He also was ordered not to have any contact with co-defendants, Jason Deason, the former Canby officer who resigned from the job last July during an FBI investigation, and William Traverso, a Canby businessman also accused of providing steroids to Deason.
Clackamas County prosecutor Michael Wu said Jackson was given a lenient sentence due to his cooperation with the broader FBI inquiry involving anabolic steroid-related corruption at the Canby Police Department.
Canby Police Officer Jason Deason worked out with both of his steroid dealers at Nelson’s Nautilus gym in Oregon City. Brian Jackson and William Traverso have both told prosecutors that they sold steroids and/or human growth hormone (HGH) to Officer Deason Read more
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Portland Office launched a public-corruption investigation involving the role of the Canby Police Department in a steroid distribution network according to an investigative report by Maxine Bernstein of the Oregonian. Federal investigators allege that Canby police officer Jason Deason openly purchased anabolic steroids and growth hormone from local steroid sources and tipped off his suppliers to any police inquiries; furthermore, Canby Police Chief Greg Kroeplin was aware of his housemate Deason’s involvement with local steroid sources and not only failed to act upon it but may have actively covered it up. Officer Deason even submitted purchases for anabolic steroids and growth hormone on official Canby Police stationary (”Canby cop bought steroids on the job, FBI says,” November 15).
Federal agents this year launched a public-corruption investigation, revealing a cozy relationship between Kroeplin and Deason in the 24-member force that allowed the officer to brazenly buy steroids while on duty and in uniform and tip off his suppliers to police inquiries, according to multiple search warrant affidavits filed in U.S. District Court.
Canby police supervisors either failed to address the problem or concealed it, federal authorities allege in the court documents. The investigation also uncovered a steroid distribution network that operated in Oregon, Washington and Arizona.
No charges have been filed in an ongoing investigation by the FBI Portland Office. The Oregonian reports that Canby officer Deason purchased anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from local steroid sources William Traverso, of Canby Landscape Supply, and Brian Jackson, the former strength and conditioning coach for the Oregon City High School girls basketball team. All three worked out at Nelson’s Nautilus gym in Oregon City.
