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It seems like more and more members of the police department fall prey to the call of steroid use. Just recently, fifteen members of the Sheriff’s Office in Broward, Palm Beach and a civilian employee were taken off their duties in order to further investigations on their possible steroid use. Last Friday, these sixteen individuals were directed to take a drug test. While the results are still being processed, they will be working under administrative offices instead of on the road. Moreover, further investigations are needed in order to determine if these sixteen were prescribed anabolic steroids by their physicians.

From New Times:

The sixteen BSO employees were rounded up Friday and ordered to take a drug test, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal told me this afternoon. They were placed on administrative assignment until the results of those tests come in and an internal affairs investigation is completed.

“I can’t tell you much because it’s an internal affairs investigation,” Leljedal said. “We have sixteen people that may have been using steroids. I don’t know if they had a prescription or not.”

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the BSO has had its set of steroid users. In 2004, a deputy by the name of Todd Fatta was shown to have anabolic steroids in his system after he was gunned down in a raid. Back in 2005, eight deputies were tested positive for anabolic steroids which they all got from PowerMedica pharmacy in Deerfield Beach. The eight were not punished because they allegedly had prescriptions from their doctors. The leniency on the eight might have sent a wrong message to other employees. Everyone could have taken it as a sign that steroid use will be tolerated in the BSO.

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