Drug ring allegedly supplied U.S. troops

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tue, Aug. 02, 2005

ITALY
Drug ring allegedly supplied U.S. troops

ROME--(AP) -- Italian police seized 215,000 doses of prohibited substances as they smashed a ring that allegedly supplied steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to customers around the world, 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 troops and contractors in Iraq work out in gyms set up at even the most forlorn bases.

Police arrested two Slovenians last month when they raided an apartment in Trieste, a city in northeastern Italy near the border with Slovenia, said Mario Bo, head of the Trieste police department's criminal division.

The police investigation began after a post office in Trieste reported that U.S. postal authorities in Iraq returned hundreds of packets of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs because they were improperly addressed, Bo said.

The drugs had been ordered over the Internet, and Italian officials presume that some had reached their destinations, police said.
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