According to Newsday - Oct 18
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nycops185419226oct18,0,4276079.story?track=rssBigger steroid probe feared: sources BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
Police officials yesterday downplayed a steroid scandal linked to the NYPD, but police sources said there is concern among department brass that more cops may be linked to the controversy now that there is an internal investigation.
Police thus far have said that six officers may face disciplinary actions if it is determined that they bought anabolic steroids from a Bay Ridge pharmacy for personal use not related to a medical condition.
There is no indication the officers, assigned to several precincts in Brooklyn, were involved in selling the drugs, and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the NYPD's top spokesman, said the officers are not facing criminal charges.
Sources, however, say NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and other police officials are worried that the use of steroids and human growth hormone, particularly among younger officers who work out regularly, is more widespread than previously thought.
"We've had officers charged by the department in the past," one source said. "More people in general are using steroids. So why wouldn't that be the case in the Police Department?"
The focus on the use of steroids within the NYPD began to take shape in May, when the state Bureau of Economic Enforcement raided Lowen's Pharmacy in Bay Ridge, and seized medical records and nearly $200,000 worth of steroids and human growth hormone.
That agency went back to Lowen's on Monday, accompanied by the NYPD, and seized several million dollars worth of steroids and HGH.
The pharmacy's records revealed a list of about two dozen officers and civilian members of the department who get their medication there.
From that list, Internal Affairs investigators whittled to six the number of officers suspected of buying steroids there.
The six officers have been asked to submit to drug tests.
The raid at Lowen's is part of a larger probe run out of Albany, where District Attorney David Soares has been investigating Internet prescription drug sales.
The Albany probe, sources said, is connected to the investigation of a Florida pharmacy that did business with several Major League Baseball players, including Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis.
