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did he go to jail for selling that vegetable oil or what?
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ahh here is the answer
http://mesomorphosis.com/blog/2008/01/27/bodybuilder-art-atwood-cooperating-in-active-federal-steroid-investigation/
i bet he won't compete again because he's afraid to now.
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I wonder what he looks like now. Are his musclebreasts all gone? ???
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January 27, 2008
Officials Make Deals to Learn Who Made Drug Deals
By MICHAEL BRICK
PLANO, Tex. — A black Hummer pulled into the Hooters parking lot as dusk fell. Arthur Dale Atwood, a professional bodybuilder with a 61-inch chest, opened the tailgate for a police informant to deliver more than 100 bottles of fake drugs made from vegetable oil.
For months, city detectives had been watching as Atwood, 34, amassed steroids, human growth hormone, Ecstasy and exotic thyroid stimulators. Last May, the police made their move. Outside the Hooters lot, officers pulled over the Hummer. But instead of filing drug charges, they turned Atwood over to federal prosecutors running a more ambitious investigation.
Three days later, federal agents began arresting seven other bodybuilders across the state. One of them, David C. Jacobs, 35, known to friends as Bulletproof, publicly boasted of having evidence to link players for the Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons to steroids. No such evidence has been revealed, and those teams have strongly denied his statements.
Prosecutors could have tried Atwood and Jacobs on multiple counts of drug conspiracy, seeking to make an example of two bodybuilders suspected of distributing steroids. But instead, they made deals that could keep both men from serving any prison time. Law enforcement officials would not disclose the final targets of their investigation or say whether the names of steroid customers would ever be revealed.
The deals struck with Atwood and Jacobs , indicate a shift in steroid prosecution methods and goals. As the use of performance-enhancing substances draws concern from the halls of Congress to the offices of high school coaches, prosecutors have turned their onetime prime targets into partners in a broader endeavor.
Atwood and Jacobs were enlisted to cooperate in Operation Raw Deal, the federal government’s most aggressive drive yet to interrupt the importation and traffic of performance-enhancing drugs through nutrition stores, gyms and Web sites. In September, authorities in 10 countries coordinated the arrests of more than 120 people, seized more than $6 million and collected 11 million steroid doses, 3 boats and dozens of weapons.
Since then, prosecutors from San Diego to Rhode Island have been making deals with distributors to build their cases. The distribution networks for steroids are amorphous, unlike the traditional narcotics cartels led by strongmen. They thrive on the anonymity of the Internet, the discreet camaraderie of the locker room, and the reckless entrepreneurship of home laboratories and pharmacies.
“Our goal is to go after the bigger fish,” said Steve Robertson, a special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration. “You start looking at other dealers, customers, things like that.”
Although customers were rarely prosecuted in the past, the names of police officers, prominent athletes and entertainers have appeared in news accounts of several cases around the country. Customer lists have not been revealed.
“It runs the gamut,” said Rusty Payne, a spokesman for the D.E.A. “Lots of different kinds of athletes, weekend warriors, gym rats, girls, dealers/remailers, a lot of traffickers, people who have never taken steroids in their life but make a lot of money selling them.” From 2001 through 2005, when prosecutors focused their efforts on sophisticated, high-end laboratories, only 46 people were sentenced under the federal guidelines for steroid trafficking, according to the United States Sentencing Commission. In the past four months, however, at least 10 people have pleaded guilty to federal steroid-distribution charges, court records show.
Drug policy experts said the prosecutors of Operation Raw Deal could seek, at best, to disrupt the steady flow of performance-enhancing drugs.
“Use goes down when price goes up or availability is reduced,” said Jonathan P. Caulkins, a professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. “We also know that ongoing enforcement pressure forces dealers to operate in inefficient ways, greatly increasing their costs of operation and, hence, increase the final retail price. So even if an operation doesn’t create a price spike, if it’s part of the background level of enforcement that forces the dealers to keep their heads down, then it may be doing some good.”
Definition and Diversifying
The police here began investigating a tip on Atwood early last year, soon after his arrival on the bodybuilding scene from Wisconsin. By traditional measures, he was a prime target: a ranked professional star in his sport whose downfall could serve as an example.
Atwood, who declined a request for an interview, was reared in Milwaukee, lifting weights to build strength for high school football. In gyms there, he was regarded as friendly and passionate about the sport.
“The guy trained like a monster,” said Tony Frontier, an amateur weight lifter in the 1990s who now works in education. “Didn’t have a chip on his shoulder, didn’t have a sense that he would use his strength to intimidate anybody or to his own advantage.”
Through the 1990s, Atwood refined his exercise routine, studied kinesiology and managed fitness clubs. In publicity materials and magazine interviews, he described a regimen of 13 workouts a week to train each muscle. In a typical day, he ate three protein shakes, cereal, oatmeal, three pounds of chicken, a potato, rice, steak, more chicken, then an egg-white omelet with protein powder.
In 2002, he won in his professional debut in Toronto at 5 feet 11 inches and 255 pounds, 70 pounds below his off-season weight.
“He came with just an incredible combination of size, symmetry and proportion, so he was one to watch,” said Milos Sarcev, a competitive bodybuilder and gym owner in Fullerton, Calif.
That victory became Atwood’s calling card as he traveled to competitions in the Netherlands, Russia, Hungary and San Francisco, with middling results over the next four years.
“After that, the criteria was more toward the smaller, symmetrical, so his physique was really rewarded no longer,” Sarcev said.
To supplement his income, Atwood sold health foods, vitamins and supplements through his retail storefront, Mass Results in Greenfield, Wis., before moving to this north Dallas suburb a few years ago.
In May, as Atwood drove away with the fake steroids, officers arrested him on a traffic violation. Searching his red brick town house, they confiscated $6,986 in cash, 2 computers, scales, tablets and capsules, a hollowed-out book, a 2007 Lexus and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Court records show he was not charged with any drug violation “due to the fact that this is still an ongoing federal investigation.” Prosecutors would not say whether he would be charged with a crime.
A Plea to Name Players
Meanwhile, federal agents were investigating Jacobs, a less-successful bodybuilder with deeper local roots. He was listed as a senior in the 1991 yearbook for Plano Senior High School without a photograph.
In promotional materials and social networking sites, Jacobs appeared as a great pile of muscle, tattoos and intensity, topped by a buzz cut. Posing beside strapping women with glowing tans, he described himself as a Bible reader, a teetotaler and a “movie fiend.”
Jacobs operated the Supplement Outlet from a storefront on President Bush Highway. The shopping center adjoined an LA Fitness gym, where he sought customers among the staff. He made an imposing first impression.
“Tatted-up and just huge as anything and looks mean,” Colby Lee, a gym employee, said of Jacobs. “But when I actually started talking to him, he was just a super-nice guy.”
Lee began visiting the Supplement Outlet daily for energy drinks and workout advice but rarely saw any other customers.
“At that point, I was suspicious,” he said. “I was like, How is he paying for this?”
When federal agents arrested Jacobs on charges of conspiring to distribute steroids, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, they confiscated cash, laptop computers, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a Hummer, a Mustang, a noise filter, semiautomatic pistols, rifles and a double-barrel shotgun.
Through the summer, six other people connected to Atwood and Jacobs were arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute steroids. Most have pleaded guilty to the federal distribution charge. In interviews, investigators and defense lawyers described the six as bodybuilders who were supplied by Atwood and Jacobs and who were familiar with one another partly through competitions and mostly through online sales.
Jacobs pleaded guilty and could serve only probation for his cooperation. One law enforcement official said the case now spanned “Texas and beyond.”
On the eve of his plea in November, Jacobs told a local television program that he intended to name steroid users who play for the Cowboys and the Falcons.
“Obviously, that’s one of the reasons I am here and pleading guilty,” he told the station, without offering proof or names. The teams denied that their organizations had any connection to Jacobs. One investigator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was not finished, said Jacobs “likes the limelight, I guess.”
The investigator added: “But I think a lot of what he says is true. He’s been able to back up a lot of the stuff he claims.”
Jacobs could not be reached through telephone calls and a knock at his door. His lawyer, Henry E. Hockeimer, said: “It’s an ongoing investigation. He’s cooperating.”
The assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Texas handling the case, Samuel W. Cantrell, did not return calls.
But another law enforcement official, who insisted on anonymity because the case was active, said people who bought steroids from Jacobs, Atwood and the others could face prosecution.
“We typically only prosecute distributors, not users,” the official said. “There are exceptions.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/sports/27steroids.html
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strange physique must have had odd sugar daddys
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I wonder what he is doing for work? He could still be a great personal trainer. :)
He was so huge... sad to think it's all over for him. :'(
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Dude is a rat and always will be. What a coward. A piece of shit.
Dude was huge.
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. Searching his red brick town house, they confiscated ... a hollowed-out book,
hahahaha very nice ;D
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I wonder what he looks like now. Are his musclebreasts all gone? ???
His pecs are insane in that pic
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The worst is when guys jump on here saying things like " they should leave people like him alone...It just hormones"...
This douchebag like Palumbo sell fake ass gear on purpose so they can drive 50 to $100,000 autos and live like millionaires all the while fuking people over...These types of people need to do serious time...I'm talking 20 years min...
Sell real shit or get the fck out of here PERIOD!!!
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The worst is when guys jump on here saying things like " they should leave people like him alone...It just hormones"...
This douchebag like Palumbo sell fake ass gear on purpose so they can drive 50 to $100,000 autos and live like millionaires all the while fuking people over...These types of people need to do serious time...I'm talking 20 years min...
Sell real shit or get the fck out of here PERIOD!!!
Agreed. Give him to me... I'll 'punish' him. ;D
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Agreed. Give him to me... I'll 'punish' him. ;D
Do your thing BayGbm...Although rumor around Venus is he was hung like a light switch...
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Selling drugs , real and fake, turning informant ....no mercy from me :-X
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strange physique must have had odd sugar daddys
I went out with his ex girlfriend Alexandria Monday night.
She is 19 which means 17/18 when he dated her.
Who said old men can't obtain hot chicks!
If you read this Atwood.
She was cool. Nothing happened. Plus I'm married
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>...they confiscated $6,986 in cash, 2 computers, scales, tablets and capsules, a hollowed-out book
hahahaha very nice ;D
Could there be an innocent explanation for all that? Maybe... but given the less than wholesome activities that surround this sport it doesn't look good. How many people, much less bodybuilders, have $7K cash stash in their homes? :-[
Still, I can forgive a lot for glutes and pecs that big and shredded. ;D
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Atwood had a funny physique. His lats, hams and pecs were so big they were almost over developed. Absolute freak though, but not a pretty physique...
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Agreed. Give him to me... I'll 'punish' him. ;D
Gayer than wearing a fannypack.
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I went out with his ex girlfriend Alexandria Monday night.
She is 19 which means 17/18 when he dated her.
Who said old men can't obtain hot chicks!
If you read this Atwood.
She was cool. Nothing happened. Plus I'm married
17 may just put him in jail...Did he carry a camera by any chance?
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Probably shrinking as we speak to a modest 200lbs and just enjoying the fact that doorways are no longer a problem.
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17 may just put him in jail...Did he carry a camera by any chance?
No by Texas law
The camera would put him in jail
Not action from a 17 year old.
You know Texas law don't you? ;)
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Agreed. Give him to me... I'll 'punish' him. ;D
It will probably work as a deterrent better than jail ;)
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gayer than having the word "WOOD" in your name :-\
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Atwood had a funny physique. His lats, hams and pecs were so big they were almost over developed. Absolute freak though, but not a pretty physique...
You nailed it. Tons of freakish muscle, but his lines are horrible. :(
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What seperated him from kovacs and most guys with bad proportions is he really was conditioned and muscle was like slabs,and sometimes those slabs of muscle overlooked smaller arms and waist,looking straight on he looks less than pleasing but when he posed everything popped .
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He looked a lot better as an amateur :-\
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traitor, nothing more than a weak and worthless traitor.
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wow what a piece of shit :-\
not surprising though-----the biggest juiced up dudes are usually the biggest pussies when it comes down to it. They're like girls with self-esteem issues
glad Im not part of the sport or a dude who juices------seems like you hear about fake juice and narcs everywhere nowadays :o :-\
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Ouch! You guys are some fair weather fans! :(
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>...they confiscated $6,986 in cash, 2 computers, scales, tablets and capsules, a hollowed-out book
Could there be an innocent explanation for all that? Maybe... but given the less than wholesome activities that surround this sport it doesn't look good. How many people, much less bodybuilders, have $7K cash stash in their homes? :-[
Still, I can forgive a lot for glutes and pecs that big and shredded. ;D
Weird looking neck :-X
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wow what a piece of shit :-\
not surprising though-----the biggest juiced up dudes are usually the biggest pussies when it comes down to it. They're like girls with self-esteem issues
glad Im not part of the sport or a dude who juices------seems like you hear about fake juice and narcs everywhere nowadays :o :-\
WHY ARE YOU on here then? ::)
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Every day I read something that sickens me about bodybuilding. I remember the passion I had for it as a teen seeing greats like Arnold in Pumping Iron, and now what it's degenerated into. Just a bunch of guys taking ridiculous amounts of hormones, dealing drugs, fake and real,..I feel no connection to this stuff anymore. I love what I've personally gotten out of bodybuilding(great physique, self discipline), but find little admiration for most of today's pro's.
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Every day I read something that sickens me about bodybuilding. I remember the passion I had for it as a teen seeing greats like Arnold in Pumping Iron, and now what it's degenerated into. Just a bunch of guys taking ridiculous amounts of hormones, dealing drugs, fake and real,..I feel no connection to this stuff anymore. I love what I've personally gotten out of bodybuilding(great physique, self discipline), but find little admiration for most of today's pro's.
You need a reality check. The pros you admired as a teenager are no different from the pros of today. In the good old days they were selling roids, doing roids, doing G4P, and all the other stuff you find so objectionable now. If you want to look down on anyone, look down on yourself for ever having been as naive as you were. If you were being true to the disdain you now articulate, you wouldn't be on this, or any other, BB board. ::)
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You need a reality check. The pros you admired as a teenager are no different from the pros of today. In the good old days they were selling roids, doing roids, doing G4P, and all the other stuff you find so objectionable now. If you want to look down on anyone, look down on yourself for ever having been as naive as you were. If you were being true to the disdain you now articulate, you wouldn't be on this, or any other, BB board. ::)
Truer words have never been spoken. I mean come on Chemist Arnold and his ilk competed in the 60's and 70's. There were copious amounts of drug use back then. Amphetamines etc. Arnold was as big a womanizer as any pro I've ever seen today. Do you not thinkg your beloved Arnold and Franco would have reduced themselves to selling fake steroids if they could make money? They were lucky because they had cheap real shit to sell. Arnold use to lie and deceive people all the time.
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Ouch! You guys are some fair weather fans! :(
The guy went as far as he could. Passion doesn't go anywhere in bodybuilding. It all depends on if your body likes it or not?
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Atwood who?
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w142/Flex2000/319685607.jpg)
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You need a reality check. The pros you admired as a teenager are no different from the pros of today. In the good old days they were selling roids, doing roids, doing G4P, and all the other stuff you find so objectionable now. If you want to look down on anyone, look down on yourself for ever having been as naive as you were. If you were being true to the disdain you now articulate, you wouldn't be on this, or any other, BB board. ::)
An apt quote coming from someone who revels in the seedy, sad world of muscleman escorts and poor desperate souls that have had to resort to acts that they find personally vile and repulsive to survive..because they pathetically lacked the intellect and foresight to plan out a more lucrative future. That is all bodybuilding is to you. Not an endeavor once done by heroic men that inspired young people to pursue a healthy and self esteem building endeavor. No, you worship bloated, steroid abused "Muscle Daddy's" with gynocomastic nipples , relying on viagra induced rigidity. I'm hardly naive..I just reject a culture of nihilism and narcissism at the expense of one's physical and mental well being.
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What a scumbag :-\
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CHEMISTV2, ARNOLD AND HIS BUNCH WERE JUST AS SEEDY.. arnold posed nude for money.. arnold took rec drugs.. and talking to guys such as coe, waller ect i can tell ya that they took huge amounts of drugs.. and if slin and hgh were available to them they would have taken them too.. i have heard many stories about arnold and his "behind the scenes activities" and they aint pretty..
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An apt quote coming from someone who revels in the seedy, sad world of muscleman escorts and poor desperate souls that have had to resort to acts that they find personally vile and repulsive to survive..because they pathetically lacked the intellect and foresight to plan out a more lucrative future. That is all bodybuilding is to you. Not an endeavor once done by heroic men that inspired young people to pursue a healthy and self esteem building endeavor. No, you worship bloated, steroid abused "Muscle Daddy's" with gynocomastic nipples , relying on viagra induced rigidity. I'm hardly naive..I just reject a culture of nihilism and narcissism at the expense of one's physical and mental well being.
x2 >:(
These seedy muscle daddys are sick :-X
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An apt quote coming from someone who revels in the seedy, sad world of muscleman escorts and poor desperate souls that have had to resort to acts that they find personally vile and repulsive to survive..because they pathetically lacked the intellect and foresight to plan out a more lucrative future. That is all bodybuilding is to you. Not an endeavor once done by heroic men that inspired young people to pursue a healthy and self esteem building endeavor. No, you worship bloated, steroid abused "Muscle Daddy's" with gynocomastic nipples , relying on viagra induced rigidity. I'm hardly naive..I just reject a culture of nihilism and narcissism at the expense of one's physical and mental well being.
You reject it so thoroughly that your spending your free time (on a Friday evening no less) reading and posting on a natural bodybuilding board. Perhaps I was wrong in calling you naive. "Hypocrite" would be a better label. It appears that LATS and MuscleMcMannus agree with me. But if it makes you feel any better you are not alone; there are plenty of guys here who claim to hate this sport yet spend lots of time and money on it. ::)
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He still does now more then ever! He's a politician!
Yeah and he's a terrible governor hear in California. He's done nothing he said he was going to do and he keeps borrowing money. Hence CA's 15 billion dollar budget deficit. And if you here the guy talk he sounds like a fucking Tony Robbins "just think positive everything will be fine" type of idiot.
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Agreed. Give him to me... I'll 'punish' him. ;D
seriously bay you seem to prefer the worst physiques
i remember when atwood came on stage for the 03 olympia, i actually felt sorry for him :-\
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seriously bay you seem to prefer the worst physiques
i remember when atwood came on stage for the 03 olympia, i actually felt sorry for him :-\
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Its cos he knows these guys will push the limits to overcome this looking like shit ilness so need more money..these guys will do anything to try to look better..this always means spending more money on drugs...enter the sick schmoes like Bay who is only to happy to help with the cash as long as these guys make the sick fantasies come true...
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Its cos he knows these guys will push the limits to overcome this looking like shit ilness so need more money..these guys will do anything to try to look better..this always means spending more money on drugs...enter the sick schmoes like Bay who is only to happy to help with the cash as long as these guys make the sick fantasies come true...
addicts always claim victimization
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addicts always claim victimization
Are you claiming BAY is a victim because hes addicted to cock ???
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He looked a lot better as an amateur :-\
unfortunately lots of guys do ???
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Lots of muscles, terrible structure...one ugly ass mofo...
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Lots of muscles, terrible structure...one ugly ass mofo...
hes not got more muscles than me !!!!
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i saw one of the arnold classics in hi-def and atwood ABSOLUTELY DWARFED everyone. he was literally a blob of muscle. unfortunately aesthetics were not a strong point for him.