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August 27, 1989 News 985-2131 Chassified 986-6222

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NEWS photo Mike Wakelleid

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP Const. R. J. McInnis signals a car to stop as it passes through a seatbelt check in North Vancouver, Police hefd an enforcement blitz Wednesday. Five
police teams were stopping drivers, in the name of safety, at 12 locations throughout North Vancouver. Of the 216 tickets issued, 180 were for seatbelt infractions.

to return fake stero

4 NORTH Vancouver judge
ras ordered) = North = Van-
‘ouver RCMP to return a
quantity of bogus anabolic
iteroids originally scized in a
‘aid Feb. 15.

By MICHAEL, BECKER

News Reporter

The seizure of black market

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anabolic steroids, worth $100,000
on the street, had been touted as
the largest single seizure of the i
licit drugs. But subsequent analysis
by RCMP showed the steraids to
be fak

Police toxicofogists also
discovered that some of the items
passed off as steroids were tonic
and dingerous.

A charge of trafficking, lid
against a man arrested by police
Feb. 15, was dropped in May. On

Thursday, North Vancouver pro-
vincial court judge S.E. Giroday
ordered all seized items ta be
returned to the owner,

Police had recovered 15 bottles
of liquid iabelled as Finajet
steroid, 200 bottles of tablets
labelled us Methandrostenolone.
200 bottles of liquid thought to be
Delatest Cypionate and 1,000 bot-
tles originally believed to be Deca
Durabolin.

A North Vancouver RCMP

Drug section member said that
bogus steroids are being manufac-
tured locally as well as abroad.
Police estimate 90 iv 95 per cent of
all steroids purchased on the local
black market are fakes.

Said North Vancouver RCMP
Staff Sgt. Fred Zaharia: **Steroids
were never a high priority thing,
and then Ben Johnson happened,
and people realiy began looking at
what was going on. Once they took
areal hard look at it, they saw that

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there was a lot of black market
stuff going on and that there were

a lot of fake steroids going
around. Most of the steroids seized
throughout B.C. have been fake.”’

While bogus steroids are readily
available on the black market, real
ones are becoming increasingly
difficult to obtain.

Said Zaharia: ‘One gym owner
told me that in the old days when a

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