More than 3, 000 g of testosterone powder were imported to Australia by one bodybuilder

Brenton Dowell, an Australian bodybuilder, was caught possessing and smuggling significant quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was defined that these steroids could be sufficient to be utilized for more than sixty years by one consumer. Numerous individuals thought that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to prison. But Brenton Dowell avoided imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service noted that this bodybuilder had attempted to smuggle more than 3, 000 g of testosterone powder. The packages that contained the raw powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were shipped to 3 various places: to Dowell’s home, to his father and his stepfather.
Actually, such large amounts of raw testosterone powder could be purchased only for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs for selling them on the black market. 3, 000 g of raw testosterone powder could be utilized for getting of 1500 10-ml vials with ready drugs.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, claimed that the steroid powder had been ordered for his client’s personal usage. He added that Dowell’s usage of steroids was caused by bullying attacks which he received, when he was an overweight kid. So, according to the defense attorney Len Hartnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to administer steroids because he was an overweight child.
The judge Graeme Hicks was influenced by affirmations of the defense attorney who presented experiences of Brenton Dowell in his childhood. The judge Graeme Hicks added that it could be concluded that Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
So, the judge believed the arguments of Len Harnett. Based on the descriptions and affirmations of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks concluded that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had bought steroids personal usage and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal administration.
Brenton Dowell was enforced to pay a fine of 10, 000 dollars and to serve 2-year probation.