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5 Students Arrested on Steroid Charges
By AVI SALZMAN
March 10, 2005
The New York Times
Five students from a high school in Madison, Conn., have been
arrested and charged with possessing steroids that two of the boys
purchased while on vacation in Mexico.
The students have also been suspended for 10 days from Daniel Hand
High School. School officials are continuing to investigate the
case, with the students facing the possibility of expulsion.
Three of the boys have played for the high school's football team,
which won the state championship in Connecticut's second-largest
division last season, said H. Kaye Griffin, the superintendent of
schools for the Madison School District. Only one of the students,
who were arrested on Tuesday, was on the team's playoff roster.
The team went to the state Capitol in Hartford yesterday to be
honored for winning the championship.
Two of the students bought 200 pills of Stenox, a steroid, at a
pharmacy while in Cancún with their parents last month, said
Detective Sergeant Todd Curry, head of the detective bureau at the
Madison Police Department.
"You can buy them over the counter in Cancún," Curry said.
The school learned about the steroids when a teacher saw two of the
students passing a container in a classroom last Thursday. It was a
plastic Rolaids container, Curry said, but the teacher quickly
realized that it contained something else.
After questioning by the principal, the students admitted that the
pills were steroids, he said.
While all five students were charged with possessing steroids, one
was also charged with selling a controlled substance and another was
charged with possession of steroids with intent to sell them. The
police said yesterday that they were preparing to arrest one more
student.
This appears to be the first time that these students have used or
purchased steroids, Curry said.
Griffin, the district superintendent, said there was no reason to
suspect that the football team won the championship unfairly.
"Those students worked very hard to win their championship, and they
did it in a way we can all be proud of," Griffin said. "This is not
something I believe is a problem on our football team."
Steve Filippone, the football coach, declined to comment yesterday.
But in an interview last year, Filippone said he was concerned that
the increasing pressure on high school athletes was causing some of
them to make unsafe choices.
Filippone said he favored drug-testing for high school athletes,
because without it, coaches could not be certain their athletes were
clean.
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Sixth high school athlete arrested on steroid charges, one expelled
March 14, 2005
Newsday.com/AP
MADISON, Conn. -- A sixth student-athlete at Daniel Hand High School
in Madison was arrested on a steroid charge Monday, while school
officials expelled one of the other five.
Brady Nolan, 17, was charged with possessing steroids. Police
believe some of the students brought the steroids back to school
from a vacation in Mexico.
Three of the other students charged _ Jonathan Gorman, 16,
Christopher O'Sullivan, 17, and his brother, Ryan O'Sullivan, 16 _
were scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court,
then face expulsion hearings before school officials later in the
day.
All the students were suspended following their arrests.
Board of Education members voted Monday to expel one juvenile and
discipline a 14-year-old. Their names were not released. They were
also referred to Juvenile Court to face charges.
School officials said the students were members of Hand's football,
track and baseball teams.
Madison police said their investigation was continuing. They allege
that some of the teens ingested steroids to bulk up, and at least
one, Ryan O'Sullivan, sold steroids at school.
Some students said they were disappointed by the arrests.
"I feel it doesn't reflect our whole school at all," student Page
Corkick told WTNH-TV.
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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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