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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: TK on November 30, 2012, 11:35:07 AM
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/29/bodybuilding-champion-suspect-in-slew-of-holdups.html
A year ago, Miguel E. Neil was onstage, flashing a big smile and flexing chiseled muscles as he took first place in his weight class at the National Bodybuilding Championships in Miami Beach.
It seemed as if Neil had turned his life around. Behind him was a five-year sentence for a Columbus bank robbery. He left federal prison for that crime in 2005 and, just two years later, was photographed with Arnold Schwarzenegger after winning the men’s bodybuilding title in the Arnold Amateur.
Today, the 41-year-old Neil is in the Franklin County jail facing robbery and kidnapping charges after police say he robbed a Wendy’s on Nov. 8 and a Bureau of Motor Vehicles agency on Nov. 15.
Neil is suspected in dozens of other robberies, police say, and officers were watching him when he robbed the BMV office on the Far North Side as it was closing at 6:30 p.m. They arrested him after hitting him with a cruiser, shooting at him but missing and bringing him down with a Taser inside a children’s dance studio.
Those who know Neil as a mild-mannered personal trainer who hoped to turn bodybuilding from a hobby into a career said they are shocked by his arrest.
Neil had enormous potential, said Mike Davies, promoter of the Arnold Amateur and owner of Metro Fitness Worthington. Davies said he has coached nearly 200 bodybuilders to the professional level and had thought Neil would be another. Now, “I wouldn’t see how that could be, in light of what he’s facing,” Davies said yesterday.
He knew that Neil had a criminal past. In addition to the federal time for the bank robbery in 1998, Neil served three stints in Ohio prisons — seven months in 1991 for receiving stolen property, nearly two years starting in 1992 for theft and receiving stolen property, and six months in 1997 for attempted burglary.
“But I think he used bodybuilding to change his life,” Davies said.
Neil’s attorney, Dennis W. McNamara, said he wasn’t sure what kind of personal or financial circumstances Neil, a married father, was in at the time of his arrest.
Nobody answered the door at Neil’s home at 5584 Crawford Dr. on the North Side yesterday.
Neil was a personal trainer for five years at Powell Fitness, where he was polite to the staff and dedicated to his clients, said owner Kim Larosa. Nothing in the way he acted suggested he ever had spent time in prison, which Larosa said she was unaware of.
“This is not a side of him that we knew,” she said.
Davies plans to go to the county jail to ask Neil about the charges he is facing.
“He got a second chance, and apparently he screwed up,” Davies said.
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Meh. He's a criminal who dabbled in BBing, not some hard-training guy who got caught up in stuff.
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(http://www.ironmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/bodybuilder-3-082208.jpg)
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Wow, he should have stayed on the cycles and did g4p. i'm sure Bay and "1" pay well.
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(http://www.bodybuilding.com/contest_media/18592/3998/d/img_06821321994632.jpg)
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Wow, he should have stayed on the cycles and did g4p. i'm sure Bay and "1" pay well.
Some dudes just won't whore themselves out like that.
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That shit was big new in Columbus! He won the first Arnold Amatuer
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This what drugs do to people
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That shit was big new in Columbus! He won the first Arnold Amatuer
Did you know Miguel personally Mike?
Did you two ever gang up on a couple of BBW's in Columbus??
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He didn't win Nationals he got second. Gh must be expensive.
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poor guy, jealous prosecutors always hating on the man with better genetics.
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He didn't win Nationals he got second. Gh must be expensive.
Let`s get real here, he did not rob a store for hgh, he did for a crack, coke or heroin.
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Calves like a Wolf! :P
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Let`s get real here, he did not rob a store for hgh, he did for a crack, coke or heroin.
Looks good for a crack head. ;D
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Epic buck teeth.
All bodybuilders are criminals (they use illegal drugs). Some just do other things (like this loser).
Lock the prick up, career criminal.
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poor guy, jealous prosecutors always hating on the man with better genetics.
The judge's ruling is just one white man's opinion. ;D
Great physique though.
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A bodybuilder turned criminal. Who would have thought. ;D
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a criminal who turned bodybuilder?
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guy has great upper body,,,knees down nothing,quads are smallish but good detail could have been decent pro with about 10 to 20 more lbs lean size,,
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poor guy, jealous prosecutors always hating on the man with better genetics.
HAHAHAHA :D
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why would you want to be a robber when there are so many schomes willing to pay you money.
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http://www.myfox28columbus.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/bodybuilding-champ-faces-even-more-prison-time-after-withdrawing-guilty-plea-35573.shtml#.VCuMXvldW2F
He bolted from a Franklin County courtroom, then later withdrew a guilty plea. Now proscectors say that could place a former body building champion behind bars for even longer.
Investigators say 41-year-old Miguel Neil is suspected in at least 30 business hold ups in Central Ohio. Monday, the 2007 Arnold Classic Body Buidling Champion appeared in court, charged with 14 felony counts of robberty, kidnapping, and escape, while victims testified against the North Side man.
Workers from a Bureau of Motor Vehicle Agency watched surveillance video they say shows Neil holding them at gunpoint in November 2012 as he robbed them at closing time. Police later chased Neil and say he was hit by a police cruiser, along with being shot at having a stun gun used on him, in order to capture him.
Prosecutors say as part of a plea deal, Neil initially plead guilty to charges stemming from the case, then bolted from a Franklin County courtoom which prompted a foot chase through the courthouse.
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Guess the......oh, nevermind.
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The video footage of him trying to bolt from the courthouse is pretty funny. I wonder how far he thought he was going to get.
The guy is not playing with a full deck.
he was fast! But not fast enough.lol
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/29/bodybuilding-champion-suspect-in-slew-of-holdups.html
A year ago, Miguel E. Neil was onstage, flashing a big smile and flexing chiseled muscles as he took first place in his weight class at the National Bodybuilding Championships in Miami Beach.
It seemed as if Neil had turned his life around. Behind him was a five-year sentence for a Columbus bank robbery. He left federal prison for that crime in 2005 and, just two years later, was photographed with Arnold Schwarzenegger after winning the men’s bodybuilding title in the Arnold Amateur.
Today, the 41-year-old Neil is in the Franklin County jail facing robbery and kidnapping charges after police say he robbed a Wendy’s on Nov. 8 and a Bureau of Motor Vehicles agency on Nov. 15.
Neil is suspected in dozens of other robberies, police say, and officers were watching him when he robbed the BMV office on the Far North Side as it was closing at 6:30 p.m. They arrested him after hitting him with a cruiser, shooting at him but missing and bringing him down with a Taser inside a children’s dance studio.
Those who know Neil as a mild-mannered personal trainer who hoped to turn bodybuilding from a hobby into a career said they are shocked by his arrest.
Neil had enormous potential, said Mike Davies, promoter of the Arnold Amateur and owner of Metro Fitness Worthington. Davies said he has coached nearly 200 bodybuilders to the professional level and had thought Neil would be another. Now, “I wouldn’t see how that could be, in light of what he’s facing,” Davies said yesterday.
He knew that Neil had a criminal past. In addition to the federal time for the bank robbery in 1998, Neil served three stints in Ohio prisons — seven months in 1991 for receiving stolen property, nearly two years starting in 1992 for theft and receiving stolen property, and six months in 1997 for attempted burglary.
“But I think he used bodybuilding to change his life,” Davies said.
Neil’s attorney, Dennis W. McNamara, said he wasn’t sure what kind of personal or financial circumstances Neil, a married father, was in at the time of his arrest.
Nobody answered the door at Neil’s home at 5584 Crawford Dr. on the North Side yesterday.
Neil was a personal trainer for five years at Powell Fitness, where he was polite to the staff and dedicated to his clients, said owner Kim Larosa. Nothing in the way he acted suggested he ever had spent time in prison, which Larosa said she was unaware of.
“This is not a side of him that we knew,” she said.
Davies plans to go to the county jail to ask Neil about the charges he is facing.
“He got a second chance, and apparently he screwed up,” Davies said.