heavyweight champion Shane Carwin as one of seven athletes who was a customer of
a pharmacist who was sentenced Friday in a Mobile, Ala., federal court to a
four-year prison term for participating in a nationwide conspiracy to sell
anabolic steroids.
According to AlabamaLive.com, assistant U.S. attorney Donna Dobbins named
Carwin (pictured on the left in 2007) during the sentencing of Mobile resident J. Michael Bennett, a
supervising pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services, as one of the athletes
whose orders contained Bennett's signature or initials. The others are:
Kurt Angle, a former Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler and professional
wrestler.Bob Howard, a pro wrestler from Mobile who performed under the name "Hardcore" Bob
Holly.Toney
Freeman, a professional bodybuilder nicknamed "The X-Man."Quincy
Taylor, a professional bodybuilder.Dennis
Newman, a professional bodybuilder.Troy
Zuccolotto, a professional bodybuilder.
In addition, the Mobile Press-Register reported that two professional
baseball players, seven other professional wrestlers and six other professional
bodybuilders are referenced by their initials only.
Neither Carwin nor his manager, Jason Genet, could be reached for
comment.Update I - Genet spoke with Fanhouse this afternoon and said Carwin had no comment but would be releasing a statement in the future. Update II - UFC president Dana White told Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole that he was aware of the story but had no other information and declined further comment.
Applied Pharmacy Services was previously linked to baseball players Jose
Canseco and Gary Matthews Jr. and boxer Evander Holyfield.
According to the Press-Register, court documents indicate that APS shipped
more than 762,000 dosages of anabolic steroids to 17 doctors and clinics from
April 4, 2004, until Aug. 30, 2006.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Mobile contends that does not include
many other doctors and clinics that they say participated in the
conspiracy.
Those performance-enhancing drugs ended up in the hands of users
ranging from professional athletes to teenagers looking to build body mass.
Prosecutors cited 22 professional athletes who obtained steroids from Applied
Pharmacy Services during the time Bennett worked there.
Dobbins told the paper that the steroids were powerful and weren't for
human consumption.
"These steroids are for horses and cows, not for young people and humans,"
she said.
Prosecutor
referenced the five convicted pharmacists as, "drugs dealers in lab coats" and
said they were also selling drugs approved only for use in livestock.Carwin last fought for the UFC in
July at UFC 116. He challenged Brock Lesnar for the promotion's heavyweight
title. He was signed by the UFC in January of 2008 after he rolled to an 8-0
record between October of 2005 and December of 2007. Here's Carwin's win over Justice Smith in June of 2006. Yaho! Sports' Kevin Iole contributed to this story
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