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0 2 - 0 2 - 2 0 0 6 West Van man in U.S. jail
By JUSTIN BEDDALL Jason Troll will spend at least the next month inside The Federal Detention Center - Sea Tac in Seattle, Washington, as he awaits his sentencing hearing for possession of a listed chemical (ephedrine).
The West Vancouver 39-year-old had his sentencing date moved from January 20 to March 2, his lawyer confirmed to The North Shore Outlook Monday. "Just for reasons pertaining to the case," explained lawyer Richard Troberman. "He has pleaded guilty." Troberman said he has been in contact with Troll, the son of two-time lottery winner and Horseshoe Bay restaurateur Gary Troll, but declined to elaborate on how he is holding up. "I'm not really at liberty to comment on anything like that," he said. On June 29 of last year, Troll was attempting to enter the U.S. along with his wife, Michelle Haney-Troll, at the border crossing in Blaine when a Custom and Border Officer became suspicious because Troll was acting over-friendly. The former West Vancouver restaurateur told the border official he was a fitness instructor and was travelling to Seattle with his wife, a competitive bodybuilder, for a photo shoot. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court, the border guard searched the couple's Jeep Liberty while their passports were being checked and discovered a freezer bag containing a white powder substance inside a black bag. The substance was later identified in a field test as ephedrine. The bag contained 76.52 kg of the substance that is commonly used to make the street drug crystal meth. "The amount of powder ephedrine recovered in this case is consistent with the amount and form of ephedrine used by illegal manufacturers of methamphetamine," the border guard stated in a deposition. The officer noted that the packaging of the white powder inside heat-sealed plastic packets was consistent with recent seizures at the Canada-U.S. border that were meant for illegal distribution. The officer also found some small glass vials and a syringe in a shaving kit that were later identified as steroids. During an interview, Troll agreed to waive his Miranda Rights and said. "I did it myself. We needed money," according to court records. Troll told the border agents that he had made a deal to bring ephedrine into the United States, but that his wife did not know about his plan. Haney-Troll, interviewed separately, told the officers she had Multiple Sclerosis and used human growth steroids, but didn't have a prescription for them. She also said she believed her husband used steroids too. She said she knew nothing about the ephedrine in the jeep. In a subsequent interview that day, she told agents that the couple had a post office box in Bothell, Washington and travelled to the States every week or so. At Haney-Troll's website, michelletroll.com, she states that after moving to Canada with her daughter she was in a car accident in 1991 and diagnosed with MS when she visited a doctor. She later met Troll and the couple married. Determined to beat MS, she headed back to the gym and in 2002 the couple attended their first competition together. In February 2004, she won her class at he Iron Man in California. She is currently staying with family in Seattle. Troll's lawyer says sentencing parameters have yet to be established by the court. |
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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
(Wilmore and Costill) 
