Halifax man with Vancouver ties charged with smuggling steroids

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HALIFAX, NS (NEWS1130) – It’s being called one of the largest steroid seizures in Canadian Border Services history.

Greg Doucette, a body-builder from Halifax, was arrested on Aug. 24 and charged with smuggling more than $250,000 worth of steroids.

A search of the 37-year-old’s home, car and storage locker netted the drugs, distribution material and more than $23,000 in cash.

The Canadian Border Service Agency’s Albert Price says the investigation started in Vancouver in 2010 after the packages, destined for Halifax, were intercepted.

“When it would be opened, it would have an article inside, just a typical innocuous object, but investigators noticed anomalies in this size of the box and inside there are two, 100 gram pouches of steroids valued at $5,000 each,” Price explains.

He says the drugs were distributed throughout Atlantic Canada.

“The individual received the raw product in liquid or in powder,” Price notes. “Also seized at the residence and the locker were inkjet labels that were made to represent as if these products were coming from a legitimate business that did not in fact exist.”

The drugs came from China, Thailand and the Philippines.

Doucette will appear in Nova Scotia Provincial Court on Oct. 10 to face charges of possessing, smuggling, importing, trafficking and distributing steroids.

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