Biggest steroid bust in history

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/...3033532#correx

Just a snippet:

NEW YORK -- In a four-day series of daylight raids that ended Sunday, Drug Enforcement Administration agents shut down 26 underground steroid labs and made more than 50 arrests across the country, capping what agents are calling the largest performance-enhancing drug crackdown in U.S. history. The DEA also has identified 37 Chinese factories that purportedly supplied the raw materials for the labs, a DEA spokesman told ESPN.


The raids capped an 18-month probe that has netted 124 arrests in 27 states and closed 56 labs. The agency also seized $6.5 million and 532 pounds of raw steroid powder -- 308 pounds of it in the past week. Most of the raids took place in quiet suburban neighborhoods.

The investigation also focused on message boards where advice is traded about obtaining raw materials, as well as on the Web sites that help the labs sell finished products to the public. Hundreds of thousands of e-mails were intercepted, according to Dan Simmons, a San Diego-based special agent for the DEA. Simmons said that no professional athletes have been implicated so far but that the e-mails are being compiled into a massive database of names and are being analyzed.

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This isn't the last we'll be hearing about this. Watch the news in the coming weeks, I bet some athletes are going to get investigated because of this. Should be interesting.

All I got to say is "owned."

Yeah definately, WWE is going to go out of business

You would think after the second day of raids, if the community was connected at all, the rest would have GTFO...

You're assuming that people are smart, WW. People are very, very dumb. Especially the ones who use/sell steroids.

I daresay this raid is a drop in the bucket in a Chinese attempt to show some appeasement to the U.S. I'm sure billions annually are spent on this ...probably 25-50% of all people who lift weights have tried bullshit like this. I know tons of people who have. It's funny how the ingredients were mixed in bath tubs, sinks, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if they whipped some of this shit up in toilets either.

Why don't they shut down the websites for the providers instead of just raiding them? Hackers do it just fine ...why can't the government?