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US Crackdown on Trafficking in Performance-enhancing Drugs
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said Monday that 124 people had been arrested across the country over the past four days in the crackdown named Operation Raw Deal.
The operation started with more than 30 Chinese companies, which were shipping raw materials needed to make steroids and human growth hormone to manufacturers and labs in the United States and nine other countries.
Since Thursday, the federal government has raided 56 sites in the United States and seized 242 kilograms of steroid and 1.4 million steroid dosage units.
The facilities in which the drugs were manufactured ranged from the basements of homes, to garages, bathrooms and medical laboratories, authorities said.
No names of athletes have been linked to the investigation yet, Rusty Payne, a spokesman for the DEA, said in a telephone interview, but thousands of e-mails connecting users to the manufacturers had been seized.
Although the government has not gone through the trove of information connecting users to the steroid ring, Payne said: “We have the ability to identify individual customers, and that should send chills down the spines of athletes and high school and college students who were buying from these manufacturers. We can find you, based on our data base.”
Payne said Chinese authorities were cooperating with the investigation. “Rather than publicly name and indict these companies in China, we thought it would be more effective to work with Chinese law enforcement partners and provide them with information so they could go after the companies, which includes as many as 37, that were shipping raw materials,” he said. “They have agreed to move forward with their investigation in China.
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