DEA Bust Powermedica

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Dea Busts Powermedica

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http://www.local10.com/news/4201136/detail.html

Agents Raid Drug Company

POSTED: 4:09 pm EST February 15, 2005
UPDATED: 5:19 pm EST February 15, 2005

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- Federal agents raided a drug business in Deerfield Beach Tuesday.

Detectives with the Broward Sheriff's Office and Food and Drug Administration agents spent the day at PowerMedica on 600 W. Hillsboro Blvd., west of Interstate 95.

The company sells hormones, anti-aging products, sex-enhancing products, and other drugs. Agents suspect that some of the products being sold are not FDA approved.

The company reportedly does not sell Botox, and that is not part of the investigation.

Undercover agents removed many boxes and computers from the building.

While Local 10's Roger Lohse was at the building, he spoke to one customer who said he was there to buy $600 worth of human growth hormone that was supposed to add 50 pounds of muscle to his body. He said he didn't have a prescription, but had been told the company would provide one.

Lohse said most of the customers who showed up at the building Tuesday were young men, many of them "muscle-bound."

Employees said that the owner of the company was taken away in handcuffs, but the state attorney said there have not yet been any arrests.

Watch Local 10 for more on this developing story.
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brooklynheight said:
While Local 10's Roger Lohse was at the building, he spoke to one customer who said he was there to buy $600 worth of human growth hormone that was supposed to add 50 pounds of muscle to his body. He said he didn't have a prescription, but had been told the company would provide one.
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Hahaha if only it were that easy.
 
Damn and to think i was actually going to get a few things there so i had a legit prescription for legal reasons. Damn
 
wasnt he a legit business? and what a rat fuck saying "i dont have a script and hes gonna give me one"
 
I think he may walk away from it, but I doubt they will let him continue his business. Its dirty, but they'll give him the option to walk away freely as long as he shuts down....unless he did something illegal.

He should sue em!
 
mother fuckers....i hope this dude gets out of it.... good luck to him
 
I don't know how you can sue the DEA for shutting this guy down. They were giving prescriptions to anyone for controlled substances which is a crime. When i can go get a prescription for whatever it is i want, that is against the law. It is like giving oxycotin to someone who stubbed their toe. I saw their list of hormones, i am not even sure they are all aproved for use in the US. I could be wrong though.
 
I agree with JCP2. This outfit sells too many different types of substances that have nothing to do with HRT or anti aging. And if they're just handing out scripts to just about anyone who shows up at their door then thats just dumb.

Soon all HRT options will get slammed shut, even those that run legit. I pay big dollars for my HRT between blood work, the physical exam and then my test itself is expensive. But its worth the extra money to me though. I just hope other outfits take serious note of this and avoid falling into these type of dealings. We'll see how it all got triggered and how it unfolds.
 
They were shut down, and the owner arrested, because they were in gross violation of DEA, FDA and State Laws. They took out full page ads in muscle magazines offering to sell steroids, for gosh sakes.

Scripts from them written for "muscle enhancement" purposes were NOT legit.

They recruited me for the past couple of years, and I constantly turned them down. Now I am glad of this, as the Fed goes through their email communications. Sometimes it pays to do the right thing.

I'll bet Dr. Ghent, who I introduced on stage as a speaker at A4M last year, wishes he had not accepted a position as their Medical Director (if it was the same Dr. Ghent).

My real beef with these online so-called "longevity clinics" is that they are poisoning the good name of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), by selling steroids under its guise. They just make it that much harder for those of us who truly serve the health and well-being of our patients to bring what is, IMPO, the greatest advancement in men's health in the history of medicine.
 
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They were shut down, and the owner arrested, because they were in gross violation of DEA, FDA and State Laws. They took out full page ads in muscle magazines offering to sell steroids, for gosh sakes.
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Not just muscle magazines....they advertise in Stuff magazine also.
 
Deerfield firm suspected of selling mislabeled hormones, steroids over the web

By Rafael A. Olmeda
Staff Writer
Posted February 17 2005

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...la-news-broward


Federal agents who raided a Deerfield Beach drug company Tuesday were looking for mislabeled human-growth hormones and anabolic steroids sold without valid prescriptions, according to search warrants released by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami on Wednesday.

Undercover investigators from the Food and Drug Administration went onto the Internet Web site of PowerMedica last summer and ordered Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, according to an affidavit accompanying the search warrants. The package arrived at a FDA agent's address with instructions and an invoice, including a form indicating that the steroid was prescribed by Dr. Abi Almarashi.

The FDA agent, Julie Pohutsky, never visited or met with anyone by that name, or anyone else with PowerMedica at the time, according to the affidavit.

Acting undercover, Pohutsky later bought Nandrolone Decanoate, another anabolic steroid, without seeing a doctor or obtaining a prescription, the affidavit states. She then called PowerMedica, met with a representative named Tony Jones, and arranged to purchase the human-growth hormone (hGH) Genotropin, which is approved by the FDA for treating pediatric growth hormone deficiency. Agents claim PowerMedica sold it to Pohutsky as an anti-aging product.

"Pohutsky stated that she was interested in hGH to look and feel younger and to get into better physical shape," the affidavit states.

According to the affidavit, Dr. Abdul Almarashi was listed as the prescribing physician, even though Pohutsky never met him. According to the Florida Department of Health, there is no Abdul or Abi Almarashi with a license to practice medicine anywhere in Florida.

The documents were released late in the day. Earlier, PowerMedica CEO Daniel L. Dailey said he did not know what investigators were seeking, or who their source of information was.

"The only thing that would make sense is there is a disgruntled employee making claims about us, or this is part of a steroid witch hunt," he said, adding that the company does make steroids, but only gives them out with prescriptions. Through its Internet site, PowerMedica serves clients all across the country, he said.

"I don't know why we've been singled out," he said. "I've been told by our attorneys that we're in full compliance with the law."

The affidavit indicates that a "cooperating private individual" who is not a federal agent joined the investigation earlier this month, confirming suspicions that PowerMedica was importing human-growth hormones from China, using the name of a Dr. Almarashi as the prescribing physician on "the majority of prescriptions."

The information provided by that witness helped officials intercept two packages of the hormone intended for PowerMedica at a postal facility in Deerfield Beach.

Federal agents ended up seizing boxes of the hormones and steroids, 16 file cabinets containing prescription information, and a letter from a law firm to PowerMedica referring to personal injuries.

U.S. Attorney's spokesman Carlos Castillo declined to comment on the significance of the letter, or to answer any other questions.

Attempts to reach Dailey after the documents were released were unsuccessful.
 
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