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Steroids sting leads to arrest of 2 brothers from Bay Area
ONE ALLEGEDLY STOLE DRUGS WHILE WORKING AT GENENTECH
By Sean Webby
Mercury News
Article Launched: 09/25/2007 01:33:50 AM PDT
Snagged by a sprawling federal steroids sting, two Bay Area brothers are
facing federal allegations that they stole human growth hormone from biotech
giant Genentech Inc. and sold it through a sports nutrition store in San
Jose.
Their arrests represented just a fraction of Operation Raw Deal, the largest
steroid crackdown in U.S. history, a coordinated effort to disrupt worldwide
steroid manufacturing and distribution.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, which announced the operation Monday, was
assisted by nine other countries, including China. Agents raided 56 labs
across the country that manufactured anabolic steroids and human growth
hormone and seized 11.4 million doses of drugs, according to the DEA.