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Plano steroids supplier to be sentenced Thursday
07:36 AM CDT on Thursday, May 1, 2008
A Plano man set to be sentenced today by a federal judge for running an international steroids network says that a Plano police officer stole money out of his house during a raid last year.
David Jacobs, 35, said Wednesday that when police and federal agents served a search warrant at his Plano home the evening of April 20, 2007, $4,500 went missing.
Mr. Jacobs said he told authorities about the alleged theft when they interviewed him after his arrest late last year.
But neither Plano police nor the U.S. attorney's office in Plano is conducting an investigation.
Rick McDonald, a Plano police spokesman, said that his department had not launched an internal inquiry because Mr. Jacobs never formally filed a signed complaint with their Professional Standards Unit, which conducts investigations of residents' complaints against officers.
Mr. Jacobs said Wednesday that he was under the impression that federal authorities were investigating the theft at his home. He said he now plans to file a complaint with Plano police.
Mr. Jacobs has also said he knows some North Texas police officers have used steroids, but he has not publicly named names.
Mr. Jacobs is set to receive a sentence of three years' probation at 10 a.m. today by U.S. District Judge Richard Schell in a Sherman court. Two other co-defendants – Matt Williams and Amber Jarrell – are also set to receive their sentences in the case.
A year ago, investigators with the Food and Drug Administration's office of criminal investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration and others shut down Mr. Jacobs' steroids network, which has been described as one of the largest in the country.
Mr. Jacobs has said he sold steroids and growth hormones to ex-Dallas Cowboys lineman Matt Lehr, now with the New Orleans Saints. Mr. Lehr's attorney has said that Mr. Jacobs has "peddled these tales to the government unsuccessfully" and has said prosecutors do not plan to indict his client.
Prosecutors have only said the investigation continues.
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