Is The JUICE In You
An assistant U.S. attorney named former Ultimate Fighting Championship interim heavyweight champion Shane Carwin as one of seven athletes who was a customer of a pharmacist who was sentenced Friday in a Mobile, Ala., federal court to a four-year prison term for participating in a nationwide conspiracy to sell anabolic steroids.
According to AlabamaLive.com, assistant U.S. attorney Donna Dobbins named Carwin (pictured on the left in 2007) during the sentencing of Mobile resident J. Michael Bennett, a supervising pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services, as one of the athletes whose orders contained Bennett's signature or initials. The others are:
Kurt Angle, a former Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler and professional wrestler.
Bob Howard, a pro wrestler from Mobile who performed under the name "Hardcore" Bob Holly.
Toney Freeman, a professional bodybuilder nicknamed "The X-Man."
Quincy Taylor, a professional bodybuilder.
Dennis Newman, a professional bodybuilder.
Troy Zuccolotto, a professional bodybuilder.
Neither Carwin nor his manager, Jason Genet, could be reached for comment.
Update I - Genet spoke with Fanhouse this afternoon and said Carwin had no comment but would be releasing a statement in the future.
Update II - UFC president Dana White told Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole that he was aware of the story but had no other information and declined further comment.
Applied Pharmacy Services was previously linked to baseball players Jose Canseco and Gary Matthews Jr. and boxer Evander Holyfield.
According to the Press-Register, court documents indicate that APS shipped more than 762,000 dosages of anabolic steroids to 17 doctors and clinics from April 4, 2004, until Aug. 30, 2006.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Mobile contends that does not include many other doctors and clinics that they say participated in the conspiracy.
Those performance-enhancing drugs ended up in the hands of users ranging from professional athletes to teenagers looking to build body mass. Prosecutors cited 22 professional athletes who obtained steroids from Applied Pharmacy Services during the time Bennett worked there.
Dobbins told the paper that the steroids were powerful and weren't for human consumption.
"These steroids are for horses and cows, not for young people and humans," she said.
Prosecutor referenced the five convicted pharmacists as, "drugs dealers in lab coats" and said they were also selling drugs approved only for use in livestock.
who cares? I want to see the most entertaining roided freaks competing at the highest level of every sport, let it all hang out! You could throw in Lesnar/Bonner/Leben/GSP/Baroni/Lashley/Shamrock etc. . . left'm bash away. I want to see cavemen hitting each othe with clubs and bones. Baroni's hand speed and stamina disappeared after the roids, just a shell of a fighter. You run nitrous through your engine and it won't last long, but it sure performs great.