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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
(Wilmore and Costill) 
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Police Chief Won't Fire Officer
By John Lyon Van Buren Police Chief Kenneth Bell said Wednesday that he has no plans to act on a recommendation that he fire an officer who admitted to trying to obtain illegal steroids. At an Oct. 27 hearing, the Van Buren Civil Service Commission recommended that Sgt. Frank Petray be fired for conspiring with officer Travis Sharp to purchase illegal anabolic steroids over the Internet. The purpose of the hearing was to consider an appeal from Sharp, who contested Bell’s decision to fire him on Oct. 2. The five-member commission upheld the termination of Sharp, who argued that his punishment should have been the same as Petray’s. Bell gave Petray a 30-day suspension without pay at the same time that Sharp was fired. The commission apparently agreed that the two officers’ punishment should have been the same, but instead of overturning Sharp’s dismissal, it recommended that Petray be fired. Bell said at the hearing that he did not fire Petray because, unlike Sharp, Petray had been with the Police Department about 10 years, did not have a history of illegal steroid purchases, cooperated fully with an internal investigation and was not the subject of a federal investigation. Bell said Wednesday that he does not intend to administer any further punishment to Petray. “I don’t think it would fair to punish somebody twice for the same thing,” he said. Bell said Van Buren City Attorney Candice Settle-Beshears concurred that firing Petray after he was punished with a suspension would not be appropriate. Settle-Beshears could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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