Italy police discover steroid ring involving U.S. troops
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
The Associated Press
ROME — Italian police seized 215,000 doses of prohibited substances as they smashed a ring that supplied steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to customers including American soldiers in Iraq, a police official said Monday.
The U.S. military in Iraq had no immediate comment, but the popularity of steroid abuse has long been discussed as American troops and contractors in Iraq work out in gyms set up in bases and even in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces.
The police investigation in Italy began after a post office in Trieste, in northeastern Italy, reported U.S. postal authorities in Iraq returned hundreds of packets of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs because they were improperly addressed, according to Mario Bo, head of the criminal division.
He said authorities arrested two Slovenians when they raided an apartment in Trieste. Sasco Tacs, 30, and a 20-year-old woman, Vesna Milosevic, were charged with trafficking in prohibited substances.
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The Associated Press
ROME — Italian police seized 215,000 doses of prohibited substances as they smashed a ring that supplied steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to customers including American soldiers in Iraq, a police official said Monday.
The U.S. military in Iraq had no immediate comment, but the popularity of steroid abuse has long been discussed as American troops and contractors in Iraq work out in gyms set up in bases and even in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces.
The police investigation in Italy began after a post office in Trieste, in northeastern Italy, reported U.S. postal authorities in Iraq returned hundreds of packets of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs because they were improperly addressed, according to Mario Bo, head of the criminal division.
He said authorities arrested two Slovenians when they raided an apartment in Trieste. Sasco Tacs, 30, and a 20-year-old woman, Vesna Milosevic, were charged with trafficking in prohibited substances.
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