FBI arrests men in anabolic steroids case

**beanlicker** · 05-02-2013, 01:39 AM

By Guillermo Contreras, Staff Writer/ Updated 9:44 pm, Friday, April 26, 2013

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force has arrested two San Antonio men on charges of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids.

An FBI spokesman said the task force consists of members who come from a variety of state, local and federal agencies who have other investigative jurisdictions, and that's why a drug investigation was opened into the activities of Amar Naim Tharee, 28, and Ahmed Aydan Hannon Al-Bishara, 24. Court records show no known terrorism link.

A criminal complaint affidavit shows the task force used confidential informants to buy steroids from Tharee at his workplace, a moving and U-Haul business in the 5600 block of Babcock Road, and his apartment in the 8700 block of Datapoint Drive.

The affidavit said Tharee sold 20 vials to an informant, in one transaction, for $2,300, and that there were other transactions since January.

The affidavit said Al-Bishara was also observed, sometimes in the Yellow Cab he drives, delivering boxes containing needles and syringes and vials of Testosterone Enanthate and Nandrolene Decanoate to Tharee and to the informants.

At one point, the affidavit said, agents watched Al-Bishara get a box of the items from an unidentified man who had them after walking out of a medical/nursing assistant training school called Texas Covenant Education, at Fredericksburg and Zarzamora roads. It was not immediately clear if the steroids were stolen from the business. The FBI did not elaborate.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Mathy ordered the men held pending bail hearings on Tuesday.

**Gopro** · 05-02-2013, 01:55 AM

Damn, Sucks to be them. 2,300 bucks for 20 vials? Now thats like 100 bucks and some change a piece!!! You can make the same 20 vials for under 250 bucks!!!!