New jersey steroid bust

[MaNiCC]

http://www.northjersey.com/news/1013...stigation.html

Police arrest man in months-long Wayne steroid investigation

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Last updated: Wednesday October 13, 2010, 11:16 AM
BY STEPHANIE AKIN
NorthJersey.com
STAFF WRITER


WAYNE — A months-long investigation into illegal steroids distribution at township gyms and schools produced its first arrest Tuesday when a 24-year-old township man was nabbed on his way to a Hamburg Turnpike fitness center.

Michael Massaro, of Harmer Terrace, was getting out of his car in front of the World Gym at the Wedgewood Plaza shopping center when he was stopped by a police officer with search warrants from a three-month-long investigation, Detective Captain James Clarke said.

He was charged with four counts of possession of anabolic steroids and one count of possession of a needle and syringe after police found an unspecified amount of the drug in his car and his house, Clarke said. The charges carry fines of up to $35,000 and / or a sentence of three to five years of incarceration.

“Both the Wayne police department special operations unit and the D.E.A. are continuing the investigation into the distribution of anabolic steroids in the township,” Clarke said. “We are hoping to stem the tide with this.”

Police think a “small community” of people is selling steroids in the township. While they are not connected, they likely know each other through area weight-lifting centers, Clarke said.

“Our biggest concern is the fact they may be reaching kids in the high school system in Wayne,” Clarke said.

Massaro was released on his on recognizance and is due at Wayne Municipal Court for an arraignment on Oct. 28.

The lead investigating officer was Wayne Detective Michael Zaccone. The Newark field division office of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency also assisted with the investigation.

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WAYNE — A months-long investigation into illegal steroids distribution at township gyms and schools produced its first arrest Tuesday when a 24-year-old township man was nabbed on his way to a Hamburg Turnpike fitness center.


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Michael Massaro Michael Massaro, of Harmer Terrace, was getting out of his car in front of the World Gym at the Wedgewood Plaza shopping center when he was stopped by a police officer with search warrants from a three-month-long investigation, Detective Captain James Clarke said.

He was charged with four counts of possession of anabolic steroids and one count of possession of a needle and syringe after police found an unspecified amount of the drug in his car and his house, Clarke said. The charges carry fines of up to $35,000 and / or a sentence of three to five years of incarceration.

“Both the Wayne police department special operations unit and the D.E.A. are continuing the investigation into the distribution of anabolic steroids in the township,” Clarke said. “We are hoping to stem the tide with this.”

Police think a “small community” of people is selling steroids in the township. While they are not connected, they likely know each other through area weight-lifting centers, Clarke said.

“Our biggest concern is the fact they may be reaching kids in the high school system in Wayne,” Clarke said.

Massaro was released on his on recognizance and is due at Wayne Municipal Court for an arraignment on Oct. 28.

The lead investigating officer was Wayne Detective Michael Zaccone. The Newark field division office of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency also assisted with the investigation.

[Swifto]

Thats a hefty punishment for a small amount.

[Hazard]

wow..... this hits home for me..... I'm in Wayne as i'm typing this LOL! Me and Igi are workin out together in a gym they're probably watching today ahahahaha

glad i'm not associated with anyone selling..... bad move.....

~Haz~

[Brewster]

If he was selling it to kids in high school...
serves him right

[Shol'va]

You betcha it serves him right...After all we have to protect our tiny tots from such a horrid drug so that they can be free to study the more important things in school such as learning the proper way of bullying, how to rape rob and murder, how to use condoms for more exciting things like putting them on fruit such as bananas and making cool water balloons out of them. How to drop out and become rich by selling the real good drugs on the street. And the list goes on. Yeah I know high school kids shouldnt be using them but they also shouldnt be having sex and doing drugs and alcohol, but come on who didnt in high school. We were rebellious, and when someone said we couldnt do it we just wanted to do it all the more. And we all know that if we want to try something bad enough we are going to search it out regardless. Plus we dont yet know the entire story here as to whether he actually was selling to HS kids or if the news just tried to sensationalize another steroid bust. And if he was then he will pay a price. Just remember that there is always his side of the story and the cops side of the story and the truth always lies somewhere in between.

[Knockout_Power]

wow..... this hits home for me..... I'm in Wayne as i'm typing this LOL! Me and Igi are workin out together in a gym they're probably watching today ahahahaha

glad i'm not associated with anyone selling..... bad move.....

~Haz~

Dont worry man, you're too small to raise any suspicions.

[Knockout_Power]

You betcha it serves him right...After all we have to protect our tiny tots from such a horrid drug so that they can be free to study the more important things in school such as learning the proper way of bullying, how to rape rob and murder, how to use condoms for more exciting things like putting them on fruit such as bananas and making cool water balloons out of them. How to drop out and become rich by selling the real good drugs on the street. And the list goes on. Yeah I know high school kids shouldnt be using them but they also shouldnt be having sex and doing drugs and alcohol, but come on who didnt in high school. We were rebellious, and when someone said we couldnt do it we just wanted to do it all the more. And we all know that if we want to try something bad enough we are going to search it out regardless. Plus we dont yet know the entire story here as to whether he actually was selling to HS kids or if the news just tried to sensationalize another steroid bust. And if he was then he will pay a price. Just remember that there is always his side of the story and the cops side of the story and the truth always lies somewhere in between.

thats all fine and good, but you actually think kids attend their classes? Let be realistic

[Shol'va]

Point well made. They are all home on webcams whacking off for the old men in raincoats to watch on the net. lol

[Knockout_Power]

Point well made. They are all home on webcams whacking off for the old men in raincoats to watch on the net. lol

you say that like its a bad thing... now I feel bad, was just putting my raincoat on.

[Shol'va]

Dont forget your rubber boots and umbrella

[Shol'va]

Besides KP and feel bad just dont go together in the same sentence.

[Knockout_Power]

Besides KP and feel bad just dont go together in the same sentence.

thats what my girl says, she says aside from the massive pain from insertion, I feel really damn good.

But your are right, I have no remorse for anything

[calgarian]

thats what my girl says, she says aside from the massive pain from insertion, I feel really damn good.

But your are right, I have no remorse for anything

u letting her fvck u in the ass already????

[Shol'va]

thats what my girl says, she says aside from the tiny prick from insertion, I feel really damn good.

But your are right, I have no recourse for anything

Corrected..your welcome.

[Knockout_Power]

Corrected..your welcome.

thanx man, I dont want people gettign the wrong idea

[Knockout_Power]

u letting her fvck u in the ass already????

nope, Im not going that route. She's tight as a fist anyways

[Gaspari1255]

This is interesting.

[Knockout_Power]

This is interesting. I live 5 minutes from Wayne. I've seen that guy Mike around (one who got busted)....Pretty small guy...He must have been pushing heavy amounts of gear over the past few months to raise a red flag.

or ripped off a cop trying to buy off him

[BG]

I bet a high school kid got caught with some gear and they are cleaning house. There always has to be a fall guy to make everyone feel better. Even if he didn't sell them to him directly. Just like ord, they work their way up the ladder from little to as big as they can get.

[calgarian]

plus i dont get why the guys drive around with AAS and big money in the car....

[danielmaco]

You betcha it serves him right...After all we have to protect our tiny tots from such a horrid drug so that they can be free to study the more important things in school such as learning the proper way of bullying, how to rape rob and murder, how to use condoms for more exciting things like putting them on fruit such as bananas and making cool water balloons out of them. How to drop out and become rich by selling the real good drugs on the street. And the list goes on. Yeah I know high school kids shouldnt be using them but they also shouldnt be having sex and doing drugs and alcohol, but come on who didnt in high school. We were rebellious, and when someone said we couldnt do it we just wanted to do it all the more. And we all know that if we want to try something bad enough we are going to search it out regardless. Plus we dont yet know the entire story here as to whether he actually was selling to HS kids or if the news just tried to sensationalize another steroid bust. And if he was then he will pay a price. Just remember that there is always his side of the story and the cops side of the story and the truth always lies somewhere in between.

Sex ed in schools is taught by either virgins or clueless people that don't enjoy it. If it wasn't for google, and word on the street, I wouldn't know what std's and sti's are.

[stack_it]

plus i dont get why the guys drive around with AAS and big money in the car....

He had no street smarts and prolly hasn't been selling long.

[calgarian]

He had no street smarts and prolly hasn't been selling long.

it was the same for the guy who got busted in my area......damn ....get a security deposit box damn it

[stack_it]

it was the same for the guy who got busted in my area......damn ....get a security deposit box damn it

I see guys like this get caught up in selling all the time. In this area it's more for rec drugs. They get a little taste of that easy money and start getting careless.

[40plusnewbie]

If he was selling it to kids in high school...
serves him right

They usually just say this stuff to sway public sentiment. Take note of the fact that they say 'their biggest concern is that it could be reaching hs students or whatever NOT "He was vidio taped selling to HS students or he sold to a HS student who agreed to cooperate with the police when his parents found it in his bedroom".

Just like the school zone laws about selling any drugs (it must apply to steroids as well as the other bs). When it was pitched to the public on the tv as a proposed new law they showed clips of some sleezy dude slipping drugs through a school yard fence to a little kid (like elementary school age) and showed some empty drug containing vials on the basketball court or whatever. I remember seeing that government sponsored add when I was a teenager or something and thinking "this is absolutely a good idea, extra punnishment for people who will sell drugs to kids/minors".

Fast forward 20 years. Now any 30 yo, 40 yo adult who sells any drug to any other adult, even in the privacy of a house/apartment with no minors present, and even if both of those adults are adamantly against anyone selling or giving any drug to minors, even to the point of them both believing that anyone who does so should receive the death penalty- regardless they will all be charged with the additional crime of selling within a 'school zone' (i.e. so many meters as a bird flies close to a school) which carries harsher penalties.

If they pitched that as how the law would be used I would definitely not been for it, a law that makes sense is an extra penalty for selling TO minors if you are an adult. But that law is used all the time to give adults extra punishment (and on paper kind of makes it look like the person is connected to negatively influencing minors/involved in getting drugs to minors, when often times (I'm willing to bet more often that not) nothing could be further from the truth. I don't think many people sell to minors unless they are very close to that age, like a 19yo selling to a 17yo.

[40plusnewbie]

plus i dont get why the guys drive around with AAS and big money in the car....

People get addicted to/enjoy the attention of being the big man on campus. Not a problem if your the captain of the team/football all star, big problem if your doing something illegal.

The dealers who get caught are reckless. You have to have paranoid personality traits/paranoid personality disorder to be an AAS dealer and not get caught. This guy obviously didn't know how to do his job at all (selling steroids and not getting caught by law enforcement) as it sounds like he got caught without too much time in the game. You have to be kind of stupid to get caught by the cops (having search warrants on you which is even worse) if you have only been doing this like a year.

[bigslick7878]

or ripped off a cop trying to buy off him

I will go with this. I laugh whenever I see a "steroid bust" because half the cops out there are on them.

[bigslick7878]

They usually just say this stuff to sway public sentiment. Take note of the fact that they say 'their biggest concern is that it could be reaching hs students or whatever NOT "He was vidio taped selling to HS students or he sold to a HS student who agreed to cooperate with the police when his parents found it in his bedroom".

Just like the school zone laws about selling any drugs (it must apply to steroids as well as the other bs). When it was pitched to the public on the tv as a proposed new law they showed clips of some sleezy dude slipping drugs through a school yard fence to a little kid (like elementary school age) and showed some empty drug containing vials on the basketball court or whatever. I remember seeing that government sponsored add when I was a teenager or something and thinking "this is absolutely a good idea, extra punnishment for people who will sell drugs to kids/minors".

Fast forward 20 years. Now any 30 yo, 40 yo adult who sells any drug to any other adult, even in the privacy of a house/apartment with no minors present, and even if both of those adults are adamantly against anyone selling or giving any drug to minors, even to the point of them both believing that anyone who does so should receive the death penalty- regardless they will all be charged with the additional crime of selling within a 'school zone' (i.e. so many meters as a bird flies close to a school) which carries harsher penalties.

If they pitched that as how the law would be used I would definitely not been for it, a law that makes sense is an extra penalty for selling TO minors if you are an adult. But that law is used all the time to give adults extra punishment (and on paper kind of makes it look like the person is connected to negatively influencing minors/involved in getting drugs to minors, when often times (I'm willing to bet more often that not) nothing could be further from the truth. I don't think many people sell to minors unless they are very close to that age, like a 19yo selling to a 17yo.

And that is the American drug war in a nutshell.

[Igifuno]

Holy crap.. I ate sushi in Wayne the day before yesterday.. and the day before that..

[warchild]

all the jersey shore crap so now the govt is takin the jersey bros down

[lovbyts]

They usually just say this stuff to sway public sentiment. Take note of the fact that they say 'their biggest concern is that it could be reaching hs students or whatever NOT "He was vidio taped selling to HS students or he sold to a HS student who agreed to cooperate with the police when his parents found it in his bedroom".

Just like the school zone laws about selling any drugs (it must apply to steroids as well as the other bs). When it was pitched to the public on the tv as a proposed new law they showed clips of some sleezy dude slipping drugs through a school yard fence to a little kid (like elementary school age) and showed some empty drug containing vials on the basketball court or whatever. I remember seeing that government sponsored add when I was a teenager or something and thinking "this is absolutely a good idea, extra punnishment for people who will sell drugs to kids/minors".

Fast forward 20 years. Now any 30 yo, 40 yo adult who sells any drug to any other adult, even in the privacy of a house/apartment with no minors present, and even if both of those adults are adamantly against anyone selling or giving any drug to minors, even to the point of them both believing that anyone who does so should receive the death penalty- regardless they will all be charged with the additional crime of selling within a 'school zone' (i.e. so many meters as a bird flies close to a school) which carries harsher penalties.

If they pitched that as how the law would be used I would definitely not been for it, a law that makes sense is an extra penalty for selling TO minors if you are an adult. But that law is used all the time to give adults extra punishment (and on paper kind of makes it look like the person is connected to negatively influencing minors/involved in getting drugs to minors, when often times (I'm willing to bet more often that not) nothing could be further from the truth. I don't think many people sell to minors unless they are very close to that age, like a 19yo selling to a 17yo.

FINALLY someone with some common sense. You guys look/sound like 90% of the rest of the robot population who believe anything the TV/media tells you.

[Shol'va]

Kind of reminds me of that stupid commercial that the govt. tried to push down our throats several years ago where a guy shows us 2 eggs and says this is drugs then cracks them in a pan and scrambles them on a stove and says this is your brain on drugs any questions. Funny how it is ok for the CIA to bring in to the states and sell the illegal narcotics for raising monies for their next mission, without retribution or prosecution from the US as they are exempt from prosecution in this matter, but all other US citizens are fair game for the DEA and LEA. The selling of outlawed illegal drugs in the name of national security is ok but not for the personal gain on ones self or just helping out a friend. I guess we all are going to have to join the CIA that way we'll have clearance to legally do the AAS.

[Flagg]

Here's another New Jersey bust:

[Knockout_Power]

Here's another New Jersey bust:

agreed, my stomach just busted and I vommited, thanx... but on a side note, it got rid of the boner I had from the upskirt thread.

[AlphaMaleDawg]

pathetic waste of time for this ridiculous witch hunt

[BOOST]

Its bullshit when half the cops are juicing.... like what about murder, illegals, etc we have bigger fish to cook then worry about juice and people wanting to look good and feel good about themselves.