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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article134261519.html
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Early morning workout buffs at Iron Addicts Gym, on 31 NE 17th St., were herded against the wall by Drug Enforcement Agents, who used sledgehammers to knock down walls in the second story office, a witness wrote on Facebook.

Above the gym, Iron Addicts co-owner Richard Rodriguez ran a supplement company that the DEA said produced and sold anabolic steroids. In a criminal complaint, agents accused Rodriguez, 37, and wife Nancy, head of a nine-member steroid ring, of importing products from China, manufacturing steroids in an Arizona lab and distributing the drugs worldwide from a Miami P.O. Box. Agents arrested all but one member of the network on Wednesday.

Rodriguez’s steroid ring was chronicled on his Instagram page, where he frequently posted pictures of his MacLaren and Porsche sports cars, of himself with fitness celebrities and motivational entrepreneurship quotes.
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Agents believe the group shipped steroids hidden in Muscle Milk bottles to Canada and in stereo speakers to Kuwait.

Much to the dismay of gymgoers, some of Iron Addicts’ equipment was seized by DEA agents and loaded into moving trucks on Wednesday afternoon. Agents said steroid profits helped pay employees and buy gym equipment.

DEA agents said they were tipped off to the illegal sale of steroids by Wellness, Fitness & Nutrition Network, or wellnessfitnessnutritionstore.com, in August 2015.
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Rodriguez is majority owner and CEO of the company, as well as a part owner of Iron Addicts Gym. Agents said he operates both under the parent company Mid-Year Management, which his wife heads as chief administrative officer. According to the complaint, she also works as CFO and bookkeeper for Wellness, Fitness & Nutrition Network. The couple made more than $2.3 million in cash between January 2015 and October 2016, the complaint said.

The complaint also names Jonathan Gonzalez, director and operations manager for the company’s Miami-based shipping facilities, shipping supervisor Erick Vittitow, international sales vice president Bader Alaskari and sales representative Bernard Duran.

The 20 percent of the company Rodriguez doesn’t own belongs to John Ferrell, owner and operator of Desert Formulations in Phoenix, Arizona. The complaint alleges Ferrell imported the raw steroid powder from China and made the liquid steroids in his lab.

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also names Edward Jacob Liff, the lead chemist at Desert Formulations, and his co-chemists, Xzavier Apodaca and Byron Oliver. DEA agents hid outside the Arizona lab and picked through the garbage, where they said they found pills that tested positive for steroids.

Agents believe Rodriguez and Ferrell laundered their profits through another company, The Real Nutrition, which wired at least $350,000 to Chinese companies that sell steroid powder. U.S. Border Patrol agents seized three packages of steroid powder — addressed to Rodriguez — in April and May 2015 and bought $30,000 worth of steroids from the company.

This month, Duran told an informant over the phone that Rodriguez was “paranoid” because the whole business was “illegal,” according to the complaint.
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Fucking disgusting they waste their time with this shit. Victimless crime. Dude sold steroids, who gives a shit!???
 
I wonder how raging the guys against the wall were.
A lot of teeny testicles in that lineup no doubt.

I never get criminals that just keep going until caught.
He could have stopped at 5 or 6 million and likely gotten away with it.
He wasn't so paranoid as to hang it up.

The best part is how now with the roid supply there run dry, there will be a ton of guys growin' spaniel ear titties as they try to fight the loss in definition.
 
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