HUGE New York Bust!!!

**berger1989** · 05-25-2006, 01:18 PM

Colonie, N.Y.-- The seizure of $50,000 in illegal steroids announced by town police and federal investigators today is the largest ever in the Capital Region, authorities said.

Christopher J. Magnano, of 2 Sequoia Drive in Rensselaer, is facing charges he received illegal steroids through the mail and courier services from other countries and re-sold them on the Internet.

Colonie Police, officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Food and Drug Administration's criminal enforcement arm conducted the investigation.

Magnano, 33, was arrested last week, but today police offered more details of the investigation and displayed the results of a raid at the suspect's home. He faces three felony counts related to drug possession with the intent to sell.

Magnano, who Colonie Police said has a drug arrest dating from the mid-1990s, allegedly ordered 2 kilograms of illegal anabolic steroids from a Chinese company. Federal officials said they had been watching him for a year and decided to move in when he was to receive the Chinese shipment.

He was arrested on Friday at the DHL office on Wolf Road in Latham.

Police executed a search warrant on his Rensselaer home and discovered the cache of illegal pills and vials of substances like human growth hormone.

At the time of his arrest he also had approximately one ounce of powdered cocaine on him, which police said was for personal use.

The raid also netted three laptop computers, several other hard drives, and about $3,000 in cash.

Federal charges are pending, said Jack McQuade, the resident agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Albany, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

McQuade said the federal probe will include determining from which countries he was ordering the steroids. Charges could include illegal importation and money laundering, McQuade said.

Magnano was arraigned last Friday and remanded to Albany County jail pending further court action.

Dan Higgins can be reached at 454-5523 or by e-mail at dhiggins@timesunion.com.

Republished with permission of the Albany Times Union.

**musclepump** · 05-25-2006, 02:08 PM

$50,000 ain't shit. He'll get more time for the coke than the powder. They'll have a time proving he was trying to move raw powder; without a finished product, they've got less. Obviously, it depends what they netted at his house.

Fucking idiot--deserved to get caught. Who uses a private courier for this shit?

**JACKED** · 05-25-2006, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by musclepump

$50,000 ain't shit. He'll get more time for the coke than the powder. They'll have a time proving he was trying to move raw powder; without a finished product, they've got less. Obviously, it depends what they netted at his house.

Fucking idiot--deserved to get caught. Who uses a private courier for this shit?

I've seen china sources use private couriers (most typically dhl) rather often. Thats why I don't fuck with that china shit anymore. They don't care since no one can touch them there. This guy is screwed one way or the other.

**BoneCrusher** · 05-25-2006, 07:52 PM

He'l still be the Juice Man ... just in prison jumpers.

**Mudge** · 05-26-2006, 12:01 AM

They had plenty of finished product from what I saw, I was surprised they only claimed it was 50k when LE is notorious for upgrading street value.

**musclepump** · 05-27-2006, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by Mudge

They had plenty of finished product from what I saw, I was surprised they only claimed it was 50k when LE is notorious for upgrading street value.

They don't upgrade it, they're just stupid. Remember that report posted not too long ago where they were paying like $200 for 10mL of Test e?

**Nick+** · 05-27-2006, 10:18 AM

Seems like making steroids illegal in the USA (and other countries), is just a ploy to distract attention from the real issues......

**Mudge** · 05-27-2006, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by musclepump

They don't upgrade it, they're just stupid. Remember that report posted not too long ago where they were paying like $200 for 10mL of Test e?

There was an agreed upon pricing protocol per unit of steroid that was highly overvalued.

**musclepump** · 05-27-2006, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mudge

There was an agreed upon pricing protocol per unit of steroid that was highly overvalued.

Oh. And here I thought it was just stupidity on the ignorant people in LE part

**Mudge** · 05-27-2006, 06:14 PM

LE people came up with it, not sure what you mean.

**Pirate!** · 05-30-2006, 08:49 AM

Why these people work out of their own house is a mystery to me. Supposedly, LE was watching him for a year and monitoring his sales on the net. Interesting that we aren't hearing about buyers being busted so much these days--just lots of dealers.

Here is the video about the bust: http://www.wnyt.com/x8326.xml?ag=x995&sb=x183#

**Mudge** · 05-30-2006, 06:46 PM

Buyers are usually just stepping stones for the big kill, sources of information and study.

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