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Associated Press
Posted: 20 minutes ago
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Four people pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they operated a widespread Internet scheme that illegally sold steroids nationwide to clients that reportedly include professional athletes, celebrities and top bodybuilders.
Robert Stanley Loomis and wife Naomi, the owners of Signature Pharmacy in Orlando, Fla., were arrested last Tuesday during a raid in which police confiscated trucks loads of drugs and other evidence. Both are registered pharmacists in Florida. Robert Loomis' brother, pharmacist Kenneth Michael Loomis, and Kirk Calvert, Signature's marketing director, also were charged.
The four are charged with criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions, criminal sale of a controlled substance and insurance fraud. Bail was set at $30,000 for each.
Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares, who ran the investigation, said Signature filled prescriptions, in some cases from unlicensed doctors, knowing they had not met patients. His office said at least $250,000 in illegal and controlled substances were sold directly into Albany County, and New York State sales exceeded $10 million.
Nine people in three states have been arrested and as many as 24 could face felony charges.
Soares has said his focus is on shutting down drug distributors and physicians writing illicit prescriptions instead of buyers. At least two people are charged with multiple counts of criminal sale, attempted criminal sale and conspiracy to sell controlled substances for trying to get doctors to write prescriptions for patients they didn't see.
Major league baseball players Gary Matthews Jr. and Jerry Hairston Jr., former slugger Jose Canseco and former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield reportedly were on a customer list at Applied Pharmacy in Mobile, Ala., one of the two pharmacies raided.
The NFL is looking into reports that a Pittsburgh Steelers doctor, Richard Rydze, was on the customer list of Signature Pharmacy in Florida, whose owners have been indicted by a grand jury in Albany. Records showed Rydze used his personal credit card to buy about $150,000 in testosterone and human growth hormone.
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Associated Press
Posted: 20 minutes ago
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Four people pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they operated a widespread Internet scheme that illegally sold steroids nationwide to clients that reportedly include professional athletes, celebrities and top bodybuilders.
Robert Stanley Loomis and wife Naomi, the owners of Signature Pharmacy in Orlando, Fla., were arrested last Tuesday during a raid in which police confiscated trucks loads of drugs and other evidence. Both are registered pharmacists in Florida. Robert Loomis' brother, pharmacist Kenneth Michael Loomis, and Kirk Calvert, Signature's marketing director, also were charged.
The four are charged with criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions, criminal sale of a controlled substance and insurance fraud. Bail was set at $30,000 for each.
Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares, who ran the investigation, said Signature filled prescriptions, in some cases from unlicensed doctors, knowing they had not met patients. His office said at least $250,000 in illegal and controlled substances were sold directly into Albany County, and New York State sales exceeded $10 million.
Nine people in three states have been arrested and as many as 24 could face felony charges.
Soares has said his focus is on shutting down drug distributors and physicians writing illicit prescriptions instead of buyers. At least two people are charged with multiple counts of criminal sale, attempted criminal sale and conspiracy to sell controlled substances for trying to get doctors to write prescriptions for patients they didn't see.
Major league baseball players Gary Matthews Jr. and Jerry Hairston Jr., former slugger Jose Canseco and former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield reportedly were on a customer list at Applied Pharmacy in Mobile, Ala., one of the two pharmacies raided.
The NFL is looking into reports that a Pittsburgh Steelers doctor, Richard Rydze, was on the customer list of Signature Pharmacy in Florida, whose owners have been indicted by a grand jury in Albany. Records showed Rydze used his personal credit card to buy about $150,000 in testosterone and human growth hormone.
