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September 24, 2007

Feds to discuss international smuggling operation

PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente is scheduled to hold a news conference this afternoon to discuss “a criminal matter involving an alleged multi-million dollar international smuggling operation.”

News reports are coming out across the country about a federal drug investigation with links to Rhode Island that has led to the seizure of 56 laboratories for manufacturing anabolic steroids and human growth hormone and more than 120 arrests.

While some news outlets are reporting a crackdown of Chinese steroids, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thomas Connell said in Rhode Island that the investigation was focused on human growth hormone.

He declined to give more information this morning; a news conference will be held at 1 p.m. at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service will also be there.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 11:18 AM | Permalink

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