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3 0 - 0 6 - 2 0 0 5 Man accused of trafficking steroids
By Kate Lahey
A MELBOURNE man who claims he is trying to set up a business selling sports vitamins is being held in custody tonight accused of trafficking a commercial quantity of steroids.
Robin James Taylor, 35, of Doncaster, was refused bail in an out-of-sessions court at Melbourne's St Kilda Rd police complex after police allegedly caught him distributing steroidal substances. He's alleged to have posted 7500 steroid-based tablets and six vials of liquid steroids on Monday, and sent a further 7000 tablets and two vials by courier on Wednesday.
Police said they raided Taylor's pill factory in Nunawading in Melbourne's east and arrested him yesterday. They seized a pill press and a handgun, which Taylor denied was his.
Taylor said he was making pills at the factory but claimed they were to be "legal" precursor steroid products for use by athletes. He denied sending the large amounts of pills, saying the business was not yet operating on a commercial scale and he only sent small samples. "We might send samples to people, but not like that," he told the court.
Police told the hearing Taylor was caught on video with the two packages that were intercepted. "We have clear footage of the defendant carrying those parcels to the post office and to the courier company," a police officer told the court.
Police are yet to receive laboratory results of the pills but told the court the tablets were labelled with steroid names. Taylor said laboratory testing would prove the pills were precursors and not steroids.
Taylor admitted he had a troubled past but said he was trying to live a clean life and support his wife and child. He said he had been approached by someone to make ecstasy at the factory since he began to set it up four weeks ago but had turned the offer down. "That's not my scene ... tt's not a cool thing, that type of life," he said.
Taylor will face Melbourne Magistrates Court this morning.
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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
(Wilmore and Costill) 
