NJ star ledger uncovers 248 NJ police officers w/shady steroid scripts from quack doc

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/hundreds_of_nj_police_firefigh.html

N.J. doctor supplied steroids to hundreds of law enforcement officers, firefighters

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Rafael Galan, an officer in the Passaic County Sheriff's Department, received anabolic steroids from Jersey City physician Joseph Colao. Galan, shown posing in 2006 for a calendar shoot, faced a criminal charge of official misconduct for allegedly tipping off the subject of a drug investigation. The charge was dropped, and he was reinstated earlier this year, according to Bill Maer, the department's spokesperson. (Greg Pallante / NorthJersey.com)

In just over a year, records show, at least 248 officers and firefighters from 53 agencies used Colao’s fraudulent practice to obtain muscle-building drugs, some of which have been linked to increased aggression, confusion and reckless behavior.

Six of those patients — four police officers and two corrections officers — were named in lawsuits alleging excessive force or civil rights violations around the time they received drugs from him or shortly afterward.

Others have been arrested, fired or suspended for off-duty infractions that include allegations of assault, domestic abuse, harassment and drug possession. One patient was left nearly paralyzed after suffering a stroke his doctor attributed to growth hormone prescribed by Colao.

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Mathias Bolton stood inside the vestibule of his Jersey City apartment building, trying to decide what to do.

Moments earlier, after hearing footsteps and bangs on his roof, he had called police to report a possible break-in. Then he had rushed down the stairs to let the officers in. Bolton had expected to find a uniformed officer when he opened the door on that August night in 2007.

Instead he saw a man in street clothes, with no badge visible, shouting at him, he claims in a lawsuit against the Jersey City Police Department.

"He looks very nervous and wild-eyed and looks like ... to me he looks like a thug," Bolton said in a deposition last year. "And he yells at me, ‘Did you call the police? Did you call the police?’ And I’m hearing the sirens coming, and I — at that point — I’m just terrified. I (thought I) just let the guys in who were on the roof."

The man on the stoop wasn’t a burglar. He was Jersey City officer Victor Vargas, whose use of steroids would come to play a central role in Bolton’s lawsuit against the city.

During the suit’s discovery phase, Bolton’s lawyers learned Vargas, now 33, was one of two officers on the scene that night to have received steroids or growth hormone from Colao. The other is Stise, the officer who was just 26 when Lowen’s sent him drugs.

Between January and August 2007, Vargas filled 11 prescriptions for HCG, testosterone and growth hormone through Lowen’s and a local Walgreens, the lawsuit states.

Bolton claims Vargas never identified himself as a police officer and, in a steroid-induced rage, sent him sprawling with a punch to the face.

"I grab onto the railing and this guy — it turns out to be Victor Vargas — and he’s pounding me like a bear, like over and over," Bolton, 37, said in his deposition.

Bolton contends Vargas then tossed him down the stairs to the sidewalk, where other arriving officers, including Stise, continued to beat him.

Bolton was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a police officer. The counts were later dropped.

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Detective Salvatore Capriglione, 44, and Patrolman Scot Sofield, 36, are among five Edison officers accused of beating Lenus Germe, 44, as he lay on the ground in May 2008. A video camera in a nearby patrol car recorded the incident.

Later, at Edison police headquarters, the officers allegedly threw a handcuffed Germe down a flight of stairs and beat him into unconsciousness, leaving him with a concussion and internal injuries that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit Germe filed against the department.

Officers counter that Germe, a domestic violence suspect, went for an officer’s gun and tried to run away. Germe pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and was sentenced to a year in county jail. He has since been released.
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even worse they used their state medical insurance paid for by taxpayers to pay for these steroiid scripts. theres much more scandalous shit in the article, yall should check it out.

Here’s a breakdown of the departments they came from:

Asbury Park police ........ 1
Bayonne police ........ 12(unbreakable was right!)
Bayonne fire department ........ 2
Bedminster police ........ 1
Bergen County police ........ 1
Bergen County sheriff/corrections ........ 7
Bloomfield police ........ 1
Brick Township police ........ 2
Cliffside Park police ........ 1
Clifton police ........ 1
Deal police ........ 1
East Orange police ........ 1
Eatontown police ........ 1
Edison police ........ 8
Edison fire department ........ 1
Essex County sheriff’s/corrections ........ 6
Fort Lee Borough police ........ 2
Franklin police ........ 6
Guttenberg police ........ 1
Hackensack police ........ 1
Harrison police ........ 1
Harrison Township fire department ........ 4
Hoboken police ........ 10
Hoboken fire department ........ 2
Hudson County sheriff’s/corrections ........ 14
Jersey City police ........ 40
Jersey City fire department ........ 27
Linden police ........ 1
Linden fire department ........ 1
Lodi police ........ 2
Monmouth County sheriff’s ........ 1
Newark police ........ 4
Newark fire department ........ 2
New Milford police ........ 1
N.J. Department of Corrections ........ 16
N.J. State Police ........ 3
NJ Transit ........ 12
North Bergen police ........ 1
North Hudson fire department ........ 3
Ocean County sheriff’s department ........ 1
Ocean Township police ........ 1
Old Bridge police ........ 1
Passaic sheriff’s department ........ 18
Paterson police ........ 7
Paterson fire department ........ 1
Port Authority ........ 1
South Hackensack police ........ 2
Union City police ........ 8
Union Township police ........ 1
Weehawken police ........ 2
West Milford police ........ 1
West Orange police ........ 1
Woodbridge police ........ 1
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btw the bolding in the article is mine, just pointing out the most fucked up parts for the tl;dr crew
 
Muscle and agression drugs to fuel the local enforcement of the war on all drugs, brilliant!
 
my officer, what small balls and huge arms you have..

'the better to beat you with my dear'
 
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