Musclebear, a very well-liked international steroid source has recently been busted and is now facing extradition to the United States. The extradition order comes as a result of the arrests and guilty pleas of Paul G. Matthews from the Pittsburgh area, and Ronald J. Sales from the St. Louis area. Both men had done business with ‘bear, although not necessarily with each other, and Matthews had also been running a traditional underground lab from his home, complete with ordering powder from China and converting it into usable form at his house (which will likely be forfeit as a result of being used in the commission of a felony).

It seems that both men were arrested last February, although the indictment was only made public recently – most likely because federal agents have spent the past year + gathering emails with the help of Canadian law enforcement. I have no idea what this has to do with Canada, per se, only that MuscleBear was far more popular on Canadian message boards than American ones. But if you’ve been in contact with MuscleBear over the past couple years, you might have some problems on the way…

I had vaguely spoken to MuscleBear a couple of times many years ago, and he seemed to be a pretty decent guy; not flashy, no ego, very professional just a guy operating an online business. In this case, the business happened to be illegal, but in my very brief interaction with him, his demeanor and attitude was no different than you’d expect from speaking to someone from Amazon.com or whatever.

And of course, this all started as a result of a confidential informant giving a tip to the Feds, who converted the tip into a couple of arrests here in America, and a couple in the Ukraine. Naturally, the people supplying the raw steroid powder to Matthews, from China, have not been arrested and will neither be arrested nor stopped from selling the same powders to other clients in the United States.