SAN DIEGO : Steroids Smuggler Sentenced to a Year
Daniel Duchaine, author of several underground steroid textbooks, has been sentenced in federal court in San Diego to a year and a day in prison for a probation violation linked to his part in steroid trafficking.
U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. sentenced Duchaine, 39, of Venice, to the 366-day term in federal prison last Friday.
Duchaine was originally sentenced in February, 1989, to a three-year prison term for trafficking in steroids, a group of performance-enhancing drugs often used by bodybuilders and athletes, after he and others were convicted of conspiring to smuggle steroids across the border. Steroids generally are not available in the United States without a prescription.
Duchaine’s original sentence included five years of probation. He served his original prison term but, last April, was convicted in Los Angeles of new steroid-trafficking charges. He was sentenced in July to two years in prison on those charges.
The Los Angeles conviction, Duchaine admitted last week, violated the terms of his probation in San Diego federal court.
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