Law enforcement officers in Tulsa have seized anabolic steroids and human growth hormone at the home of a professional bodybuilder and a Coweta police officer.
Court records show that a special agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control office in Tulsa and an undercover officer in the Tulsa Police Department's Special Investigations Unit seized syringes, needles and vials that indicated use of the illegal performance enhancement drugs from the trash outside a house in the 7500 block of East 88th Street on March 25.
The address is the home of Coweta Police Officer Zachary Livingston, his wife, Jennifer Livingston, and professional bodybuilder Guy Ducasse, the main focus of the investigation, according to an affidavit seeking a search warrant.
Tulsa County District Court records filed Wednesday show that officers recently searched the home and found vials of popular muscle-building steroids and human growth hormone. Among the substances found were testosterone, nandrolone decanate and stanozolol.
Also seized were e-mails to Ducasse "instructing him on bodybuilding drug use," "handwritten notes regarding steroid cycles," a "weekly steroid use schedule" and "7 pages of clients," who are believed to be members of Sky Fitness & Wellbeing, 10121 S. Sheridan Road, according to the court records.
An employee at the fitness center said Friday that Ducasse trains clients at the facility.
Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control office in Oklahoma City, said no arrests had been made but that the arrests of more than one person could be made within a week.
"It looks like it could be substantial," Woodward said of the potential bust stemming from the investigation into the use of steroids and human growth hormone in Tulsa.
The OBNDD special agent and Tulsa police officer have been working undercover and investigating the illegal use and distribution of performance-enhancement drugs in the Tulsa area for approximately three months, according to the affidavit.
Calls made to the officers about their investigation were not returned.
Tips to law enforcement officers have indicated that Ducasse received from Mex ico and Florida mailed packages of steroids and human growth hormone to sell to clients, according to the affidavit. Packages arrived with "false names but accurate addresses," the document says.
Ducasse, who is in his mid-40s, has been competing in international and professional bodybuilding competitions since 1986, according to bodybuilding Web sites.
Much of the narcotics agent's undercover work occurred while training at the former Physical Edge fitness center at 6939 E. 71st St., which recently changed ownership and is now known as Hi Octane.
Chris Goodman, co-owner of Hi Octane, said Ducasse trained clients at the former Physical Edge but is not a paid employee there.
Efforts to reach Ducasse were unsuccessful.
In 1998, he received a deferred sentence for first-degree burglary in Tulsa, according to court records.
The extent of the Livingstons' involvement in the investigation of performance-enhancement drugs is not known, but court records refer to them as either owning or renting the home where Ducasse has been living.
Lt. Donnie Krumsiek of the Coweta Police Department confirmed that Livingston is an officer there, but Krumsiek said he was unaware that steroids and growth hormone were found at the officer's home. He declined to answer any other questions.
"I am not going to comment on the OBN investigation," he said.
Efforts to reach the Livingstons were unsuccessful.
