[email protected] Busted on Drug Charges

**TheChosen1** · 07-06-2004, 07:12 PM

Tuesday July 06, 2004

Last week, on Tuesday June 29th, wearing his BodyBuilding.com T-Shirt, Jason Cholewa, a 22 year old student at the University of Rhode Island was arraigned on four counts of felony drug charges in District Court, South Kingstown Rhode Island. The police officers in Narragansett Rhode Island, armed with a search warrant, seized 4,000 pills, dozens of vials, and $29,000. Cholewa is being held without bail and has been charged with three counts of possession with the intent to distribute and one count of possession of a controlled substance. Anabolic steroids and Vicodin have already been identified and other substances have been sent to labs for identification testing.

Of particular interest to our members is the fact that Jason was a popular moderator for the Bodybuilding.com Discussion Boards. Jason posted as Big Red and Big Red HH and was a frequent contributor to the TeenBodyBuilding.com and Bodybuilding.com web sites. Bodybuilding.com has banned him from their boards and apparently, they have deleted all of the posts about his arrest.

Detective Lt. Gerald Driscoll said Jason was a "mid-level dealer." Driscoll added, "We suspect that the source of these drugs is somewhere out of state." Additionally, it was learned that Jason was arrested five years ago for disorderly conduct in Connecticut.

The estimated value of the drugs was only $4,000. Which given the kamikaze cycles that some bodybuilders are taking these days could be considered an amount for personal use. They also found Vicodin. Dealers take note, if you're going to deal roids, don't deal other stuff. It seems that it's the recreational drugs that causes law enforcement to get a lot more serious a lot faster. And of course if someone you deal steroids to starts hounding you to sell meth, ecstasy, or coke, you can be pretty sure they're setting you up.

To convict Jason of dealing, the prosecutor will have to prove that he had intent to distribute. And here's where Bodybuilding.com comes in. At this point, it's safe to assume that Big Red HH's entire Personal Message history has been subpoenaed along with all of his threads on Bodybuilding.com's Discussion Forums. And if not subpoenaed already, it probably will be soon. Hopefully, Bodybuilding.com will hire a lawyer and turn over only Big Red's PM's and Posts -- not the entire forums database and everyone's PM's along with it.

For Jason to get off, he'll probably try to prove that the steroids that were found were for personal use. And as attorney Rick Collins points out in his book Legal Muscle, law enforcement much of the time has no idea how different steroids are from recreational drugs in terms of what would constitute an amount appropriate for personal use. In other words, 100 D-Bol is a lot different than 100 ecstasy. The other way Jason could make his situation better would be to rat out someone or several someones. He could try to plea bargain his sentence down in exchange for names. If he were to go this route, the implications for the members of BodyBuilding.com's Forums could be quite serious. In fact, Detective Lt. Gerald Driscoll said that "This is an ongoing investigation."

I'm not suggesting that the Administration of BodyBuilding.com knew that one of their Mods was a dealer, but this is exactly why EliteFitness.com never allows sources - known or suspected - to moderate our forums.

Credit: Emailed to me from EF

Jason Cholewa's (a.k.a. Big Red HH) Progression

**cpt steele** · 07-06-2004, 07:14 PM

Hmmm Why do people mees with narcotics and gear ???

**SwoleCat** · 07-06-2004, 07:14 PM

OUCH!

Now we can see why A.R. has the sourcing rules that it does.

~SC~

**Money Boss Hustla** · 07-06-2004, 07:15 PM

Creatine rules!!

**mass junkie** · 07-06-2004, 07:16 PM

I wonder if he's going to roll on anybody else to lessen his sentence

**Elliot** · 07-06-2004, 07:16 PM

isnt this like very old news..?

**RATM** · 07-06-2004, 07:20 PM

people who use steroids are cheaters...........

**Elliot** · 07-06-2004, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by RATM

people who use steroids are cheaters...........

oh boy.. here we go again..

**TheChosen1** · 07-06-2004, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by mass junkie

I wonder if he's going to roll on anybody else to lessen his sentence

Even if he does, the possession of the Vicadin is going to break him the most.

**mass junkie** · 07-06-2004, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by TheChosen1

Even if he does, the possession of the Vicadin is going to break him the most.

didnt bodybuilding.com have an online pharmacy linked somewhere on their site...just full of schedule IV medications like hydrocodone, phentermine, soma and such? I know a few of the forums out there do

***SV-1*** · 07-06-2004, 08:07 PM

Too bad, so sad, sucks to be him.

**LeanMeOut** · 07-06-2004, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by SV-1

Too bad, so sad, sucks to be him.

Yup pretty much

<<LMO>>

**bad_man** · 07-06-2004, 08:21 PM

Why include pictures of his "progression"? What does this have to do with the issue?

**LeanMeOut** · 07-06-2004, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by bad_man

Why include pictures of his "progression"? What does this have to do with the issue?

Those were included in the email that Elite fitness sent out. I got a copy of it yesterday.

<<LMO>>

**iNvid** · 07-06-2004, 08:40 PM

Thats what happens when you dont keep it safe :|

**UrbanLegend** · 07-06-2004, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by mass junkie

didnt bodybuilding.com have an online pharmacy linked somewhere on their site...just full of schedule IV medications like hydrocodone, phentermine, soma and such? I know a few of the forums out there do

No. Bodybuilding.com is a business, they would be the last ones to have links like that.

**bermich** · 07-06-2004, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by Elliot

isnt this like very old news..?

NO. This is LIKE four day old news......

Better thread than the first one. This one has a little more info to it.

For a name like big red, I thought he'd be bigger.

Of course he will roll over on people. Why the hell wouldnt he. 10 years in PRISON or get 1 year in jail if he rolls over on the bigger suppliers. FVCKING A anyone and EVERYONE would take that deal. I dont care how loyal you say you are. When you realize your life has the option of being over for 10 years as opposed to 1 year, morals change.
If anyone here says they would do differently, I will straight out call you a naive liar.......

**bermich** · 07-06-2004, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by TheChosen1

Even if he does, the possession of the Vicadin is going to break him the most.

Vicadin? A pain reliever? That is an over the counter pill. NO BIG DEAL. Are you confusing it with Ecstasy or something? I have 30 vicadins in my bathroom. BFD.

**trailrider38** · 07-06-2004, 09:41 PM

you aren't from around here are you?

Originally Posted by bermich

Vicadin? A pain reliever? That is an over the counter pill. NO BIG DEAL. Are you confusing it with Ecstasy or something? I have 30 vicadins in my bathroom. BFD.

***50%Natural*** · 07-06-2004, 09:54 PM

isn't vicadin a mild tranquilizer? They aren't even scheduled as heavily as aas anyway...

**whiteyk** · 07-06-2004, 10:00 PM

vics are nothing.....

**abstrack** · 07-06-2004, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by 50%Natural

isn't vicadin a mild tranquilizer? They aren't even scheduled as heavily as aas anyway...

pain reliever. not as potent as oxycotons,roxycotons,percosets or lortabs but the main ingreadiant in it is hydrocodone usually 10mg and then 500mg of aspirin

**bermich** · 07-07-2004, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by trailrider38

you aren't from around here are you?

What are you trying to say? Am I wrong somewhere?? Do you get arrested in your state for posession of vicadin?? Please let me know so I can stop buying them from my pharmacist.

**Da Bull** · 07-07-2004, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by bermich

What are you trying to say? Am I wrong somewhere?? Do you get arrested in your state for posession of vicadin?? Please let me know so I can stop buying them from my pharmacist.

They are a controlled substance and a prescription is required for Vicadin...they are addict...remember Bret farves problems years ago?

**mass junkie** · 07-07-2004, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by Da Bull

They are a controlled substance and a prescription is required for Vicadin...they are addict...remember Bret farves problems years ago?

yeah no ****.....trust me on this guys posessing vicodin without a prescription is as bad as getting caught with aas

**ironfist** · 07-07-2004, 01:37 AM

Originally Posted by bermich

What are you trying to say? Am I wrong somewhere?? Do you get arrested in your state for posession of vicadin?? Please let me know so I can stop buying them from my pharmacist.

You can't buy vicodin in the USA without a script from your doctor..I think they are a schedule 3 drug...I've read about many guys locally getting arrested for having prescription pain killers without a script...

**whiteyk** · 07-07-2004, 01:39 AM

****....learn something new everyday

**bermich** · 07-07-2004, 03:22 AM

I kinda knew that but I just assumed everyone has a perscription for vicadin somewhere. Either from the last trip to the dentist, etc.
I wouldnt think they would bother with them unless you had five hundred or so.

**floyd_turbo** · 07-07-2004, 05:16 AM

Dumb

**GQ-Bouncer** · 07-07-2004, 05:34 AM