Ryan Shooltz, a former anabolic steroids dealer, is hoping that U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor will consider being more lenient towards his case. Shooltz was involved in an unfortunate incident back in 2004 when one of his friends died of methadone overdose in his Amherst apartment. At that time, police managed to seize several doses of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and other pills from his residences. It became a debate on whether the drugs confiscated were for business or just personal use.

From The Republican:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Regan told Ponsor Shooltz had a “cornucopia” of substances in his refrigerator and elsewhere and had cultivated an environment tolerant of drug use.

“This wasn’t a small case of a student who wanted to pump iron and … share steroids with his friends,” O’Regan said, adding that Shooltz imported raw steroid powder from China and sold  steroids over the Internet.

Lesser argued that although the pills were plentiful, they were really just enough for personal use by a half-dozen people.

“If you’re going to use steroids, you use 20 to 30 pills a day for a three-month course,” Lesser said, later focusing on Shooltz’s lack of a criminal record after a series of arrests in his late teens.

Shooltz, who pleaded guilty last October, told federal judge Ponsor that he has been a changed man since the event several years ago. Ponsor admitted to Thomas Lesser, the defense lawyer, that he was biased against Shooltz during the hearing. Since 2004, Shooltz has reinvented himself and now has a lucrative job, his own apartment, and a long-term girlfriend. Lesser also reasoned that Shooltz has had a clean criminal record since then.

For now, Ponsor is considering sentencing Shooltz to community confinement for six months. He had told defense to compile draft letters in support of Shooltz, something that he was expecting but was not done, so that he can review if the man had really changed. Ponsor is known for rarely giving second chances to defendants so that they can gather support.

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office in Florida finally arrested Christopher Edward Abate for several crimes. It was the culmination of their five-month investigation into the illegal activity of 44-year-old Deep Creek resident.

When authorities conducted the search of Abate’s house at 2511 Mauritania Road, they were able to seize more than 3,000 pills, steroid drugs, counterfeit identification and nearly $500,000 in cash.

They also recovered other evidence on the scene including vials and bottles of steroids with handwritten labels, equipment used to fill up and seal drug containers, and blank doctor’s prescription pads. Deputies also found several blank cards used for making counterfeit driver’s licenses and identification cards.

Further, authorities discovered that Abate had six different licenses that contained his photograph and three different names, according to the sheriff’s office report. Among the documents found was Abate’s release from Federal Probation relating to a prior prescription fraud charge.

The 44-year-old Abate was charged with five felony counts of possession of controlled substance for methadone, oxandrolone (anavar), fluoxymesterone, and oxymetholone (Anadrol). He was also charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute of anavar, 42 counts of possession of prescription forms, and misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana less than 20 grams and possession of paraphernalia.

He was later booked into the Charlotte County Jail on the drug and counterfeit-making equipment charges on a $52,100 bond.

This high school wrestling coach is a real scum-bag.  He gave regular drugs, like methamphetamine and cocaine to students, and molested them.  It’s a shame he also gave his wrestling students steroids, which makes the whole steroid community look like nutjobs.  This particular idiot was just a maniac caught in the wrong situation.  he was always abusive to his students, and then he decided to show them how to abuse drugs and abuse steroids.  He’s a scumbag that should be put in jail.

On the other hand, maybe we do not know the whole story? did he really have sex with high school boys and beat them? or did they claim this just to get him arrested.  Did he give out drugs and anabolic steroids to students or no? it’s impossible to tell at this point.  There was talk that he was providing them with Dianabol and Clenbuterol, along with the other drugs, but this was never proven.

From Arizona Republic:

A man sought by authorities in Virginia on charges that he gave steroids to a high-school wrestler and then molested him has been arrested in Phoenix.

U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Matt Hershey said Saturday that a child predator task force arrested 41-year-old Ben Hunter on Friday.

Hershey says Hunter was wanted by Virginia State Police and authorities in Lancaster County on numerous charges ranging from child abuse to distribution of a controlled substance. He’s accused of giving steroids to the boy and assaulting him on overnight trips while he was a volunteer coach.

Hunter was arrested in 2004, but posted bond and fled. The case was featured on America’s Most Wanted several times.

Hershey didn’t know whether Hunter had retained a lawyer.