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0 1 - 0 2 - 2 0 0 6 E-mail tip led to steroids arrest
Colleyville: Authorities checking if ex-trainer sold to teens at gym
MARISSA ALANIS An e-mail tip to police that steroids might have been sold to teenagers led to the arrest last week of a personal trainer at a Colleyville gym for possession of anabolic steroids manufactured in Mexico, authorities said. Colleyville police and Tarrant County narcotics unit members arrested Harold Bright Jr., 34, of Arlington on charges of possession of a controlled substance during a Jan. 25 traffic stop. He was stopped on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. Police searched Mr. Bright's car and found 70 doses of the steroid and 30 doses of Tamoxifen, a drug that is used to treat breast cancer in women, Colleyville Police Chief Tommy Ingram said. Mr. Bright was booked into the Hurst jail and released that same day when he posted $5,637 bail. Herschel Tebay, narcotics unit commander, said that labels on the steroids were in Spanish but that the box indicated that the drugs were anabolic steroids. He said the spelling was similar to that found on the anabolic steroids used in the U.S. A drug analysis is expected in a few days. Chief Ingram said investigators are trying to determine if Mr. Bright sold steroids to teens at Life Time Fitness, 1221 Church St., where he worked. Mr. Bright resigned Tuesday after he met with his supervisor, said Kent Wipf, a Life Time Fitness spokesman. Chief Ingram said a gym member overheard other members talking about steroids and Mr. Bright in January. The gym member told another person, who e-mailed the tip to Colleyville police. Police then requested help from the Tarrant County narcotics unit. "Some people would say this is a flaky tip," the chief said. "But sometimes these things pan out." The Grapevine-Colleyville area gained attention last February when nine Colleyville Heritage High School athletes, seven of them football players, admitted that they had used steroids during the previous school year. Grapevine-Colleyville school board trustees later decided to implement a random drug-testing program that started this school year. Authorities said there isn't a connection between Mr. Bright and the Colleyville Heritage High athletes who admitted to steroid use. Mr. Tebay said Mr. Bright's name didn't come up during the steroid investigation at the high school. Mr. Tebay said that Mr. Bright has had previous arrests in connection with possession of controlled substances, the last in 2003 in Tarrant County. Mr. Bright will probably face only the possession charge because there isn't a way to prove he was selling to anybody else or had the intention to sell, other than the tip sent by e-mail, Chief Ingram said. 1 4 - 0 6 - 2 0 0 6 Arlington trainer caught with steroids gets nine years in jail
By DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR. COLLEYVILLE — A physical-fitness trainer taken into custody in January on suspicion of illegally possessing anabolic steroids at a local gym has been sentenced to nine years in prison for violating his probation. The Arlington trainer was arrested after authorities got a tip in January that someone was selling steroids to high school students at a Colleyville gym, authorities said. Harold Bright Jr., 35, had been on probation for an unrelated drug charge when he was arrested in late January as he left Lifetime Fitness, 1212 Church St. in Colleyville. On May 30, Bright’s probation was revoked in a Fort Worth courtroom, and he was sentenced to nine years in prison for possession of a controlled substance/cocaine in 1996 with intent to deliver. He was also sentenced to 270 days in jail for possession of dangerous drugs and possession of a controlled substance under 28 grams related to the Colleyville arrest. All the sentences will be served concurrently. The tip in January was in an e-mail to Colleyville police, who turned it over to the Tarrant County Narcotics Unit, which set up surveillance on Bright. In late January, Bright was arrested as he drove away from the gym with a workout bag that contained 70 anabolic steroid pills and 30 doses of Tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is used to treat breast cancer, but authorities say the drug is also used to reduce nausea after taking steroids. Authorities determined that the steroids came from Mexico. But they said there was no evidence that Bright had sold to high school students in January or that he was connected with the nine Colleyville Heritage High School students who admitted to using steroids in 2004. “We looked into those tips, but we didn’t find anything,” said Herschel Tebay, commander of the narcotics unit. |
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