Broadalbin man*gets busted

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A Fulton County man was arrested on drug charges Monday after an investigation by local police and two federal law enforcement agencies found he was receiving steroids from Turkey.

Kurt Smith, 26, of Ridge Road in Broadalbin was charged with multiple counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. It’s unclear how many counts Smith is facing or if the charges he is facing are felonies or misdemeanors.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that they were contacted by investigators from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security regarding information they had that steroids were being shipped from Turkey to Smith’s Broadalbin address.

“Smith was ordering and found to be in possession of the illegal controlled substances of assorted steroids from the Republic of Turkey and was receiving them at [his residence]," the statement said.

Fulton County Sheriff Richard Giardino said in the release that steroids purchased online from overseas sources are particularly dangerous because the origin and composition of the drugs are unknown.

Smith will appear in Broadalbin Town Court at a later date.

 

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building drugs business ends in jail

oshua Francis Townshend's high-flying lifestyle has come crashing down.

It was financed by illegal sales of body building drugs – his business had a turn-over of $300,000 in one year.

The 30-year-old has started a two-year jail term after admitting 129 charges under the Medicines Act.

Defence counsel Josh Lucas told the Christchurch District Court the offending arose during a time of Townshend's "high living" and his need to be the best.

He lived in a fancy Cashmere house, he said.

"It was all in an effort to impress everybody, including himself, probably."

The medicines were packed in bottles and vials and labelled under Townshend's brand name, "APS", the Ministry of Health said.

The products he sold were not of a pharmaceutical standard.

Townshend was blatant in his advertising and promotion of the medicines, the ministry said.

Medsafe estimated that, over a year, Townshend supplied more than 2000 10-millilitre bottles of clenbuterol and 2400 units of other medicines, which were primarily 10ml vials of anabolic steroids for injection.

The court heard his chaotic lifestyle continued while he was on home detention for earlier similar offending. The Ministry of Health said Townshend ignored its verbal warning in March 2013.

 

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building drugs business ends in jail

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