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Steroid busts seem to be an everyday occurrence these days, but they are not usually this big. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that just one man who dealt roids over the Internet was recently carrying over 40,000 vials and tablets of juice when the feds caught up to him!
As long as I’ve been in the world of bodybuilding, I have become used to seeing people go down left and right for selling, or even just possessing gear. And with the brutal punishments that are brought down on those who get busted for steroid-related crimes, having just a single vial could mean serious jail time.
But these are the risks that users take in order to develop the ultimate physique and the risks that sellers take in order to make money by selling steroids to those who live in countries where it is illegal to possess them. For some dealers, it pays off as they never get caught.
But there are also those people that don’t make out quite so well. Those like Michael Schlanger, who is a personal trainer in the Baltimore area that possibly did a little more than just designing workout plans for his clients.
And what did Schlanger do that has everyone from Baltimore to New York talking? The 47 year-old Schlanger, who is a personal trainer at the Bally Total Fitness Club in a Baltimore suburb called Glen Burnie, is accused of distributing anabolic steroids over the Internet under the name of [email protected] and in person throughout the Baltimore, Maryland area. If convicted, he could face the stiff penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
This is no big news though as a person going down for distributing juice is pretty commonplace. The shocker, however, comes in the form of a number. The number 40,000 to be exact! This is the number of steroid vials and tablets that were found by authorities in a storage locker that has been rented by Michael Schlanger since 2000.
So it sounds like this was a pretty easy case, right? Someone gave authorities a tip that Michael Schlanger had over 40,000 units of steroids in a seemingly-innocent Laurel, Maryland storage locker and they confiscated the evidence and were able to take Schlanger down in the process. But in reality, getting to the Laurel storage locker was a long journey for authorities. One that began farther up north in New York City.
The case started at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport when authorities confiscated what they thought would be just another routine package seizure. Little did they know, the two packages (one from China and one from Great Britain) that were discreetly marked Country Crafts would lead them on a investigation that would take them to Maryland.
Deciding to look further into the matter, New York authorities set up a controlled delivery for the packages that were supposed to be sent to the Severna Park UPS branch. The controlled delivery enabled police to arrest two suspects, Pierre R. Gumucio and his girlfriend Rachel Ann Martin.
The authorities realized that they were on to something when they found 884 units of steroids and ketamine and a book that was described as having “the word ANABOLIC” on the cover. Knowing the police had this evidence in hand; Gumucio chose to work with them instead of staying silent.
Pierre Gumucio proceeded to tell authorities that he had worked for Schlanger for over two years and had delivered over 100 packages during that time. Gumucio said that he was paid in steroids that he used for his own muscle enhancement and sold them to buy ketamine as well. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jon Marsicano Jr. spoke on this subject by saying, “Mr. Gumucio stated that he had been an on again, off again recreational drug user for years.”
Gumicio also admitted to police that he had been wiring money overseas on the behalf of Shlanger because Michael’s name had been flagged by both U.S. Customs and Western Union which made it impossible for him to wire money himself. Marsicano echoed this sentiment through his court papers which read, “According to Mr. Gumucio, Mr. Schlanger stated that U.S. Customs flagged him for prior importation of steroids and it was very difficult for him to receive packages without Customs inspecting them.”
By the end, Gumucio had told authorities where Schlanger’s storage locker with the drugs was and they had a major break in the case. Police then raided Schlanger’s home and found instant messages on his computer sent from “Mike S.” to screen names “hygetropin” and "hygene hgh” talking about the Gumucio arrest and how he shipped the drugs. This evidence further cemented a case that was already strong after the storage locker raid.
Federal authorities have since discovered that Schlanger had imported thousands and thousands of steroid units from foreign countries such as China. It is estimated that the number of steroid units that he has imported from overseas is as high as 250,000 during his suspected steroid dealings.
This case has astounded federal investigators and authorities alike throughout the Baltimore region as they have never seen anything this big in the way of an anabolic steroid bust. Floyd Pond, the deputy director of the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force program, proved his amazement at how many steroids were involved in this case when he said of the 40,000 units of juice that were found, “In 10 years, I’ve never seen a seizure of that size. It’s unprecedented as far as we’re concerned.”
Others such as Ed Marcinko, who is a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Baltimore, spoke of how this large steroid bust would put a huge dent in the availability of roids in the area. Marcinko said, “This seizure was a major blow.” However, he later admitted that, in the overall perspective, most sales are now done on the Internet.
In all honesty, Marcinko thoughts pretty much say it all... Even with this huge bust, most sales are done on the Internet and in the grand scheme of things, there are plenty of other dealers in countries where it is legal to have steroids that are willing to ship their products to the United States and other countries where it is illegal to possess roids. So it doesn’t look like many athletes will have to worry about where they are going to get their gear from for now.
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