Police seize steroids from health food retail outlet in south end
A 44-year-old man faces multiple charges after city police raided a south Edmonton health food store, seizing over $100,000 in drugs, including steroids.
The city police southwest division special projects team began investigating the owner of the store near 34 Avenue and 99 Street in late 2017 after a report that steroids were being trafficked.
Investigators executed a search warrant before seizing various drugs with an estimated street value of nearly $105,000.
Neighbouring employees at businesses in the area on Wednesday afternoon saw police arrest a man and remove items from the location.
DRUGS SEIZED, WITH ESTIMATED STREET VALUES, INCLUDE:
testosterone (7.8 litres and 1,000 pills): $52,997
boldenone (50 vials): $880
trenbolone (152 vials): $11,390
stanozolol (18 vials and 5,472 pills):
$13,450 sandrolone (41 vials): $3,690
hash (90 pills): $900
hemp oil (210 pills and 20 vials): $845
drostanolone (24 vials): $2,160
oxymetholone (2,900 pills): $5,220
oxandrolone (3,300 pills): $9,900 metandienone (1,763 pills):
$3,526
Sarbjit Kahlon is charged with nine counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking, two counts of trafficking and two counts of possession.
Back in December 2006, Sarbjit Kahlon, then 33, was sentenced in Edmonton court to four years in prison after being busted by customs officers who intercepted a package from India containing nearly a kilogram of opium. At that time, Kahlon ran a health food store in west Edmonton.
Court heard then that a package sent from the Punjab province in India containing 978 grams of opium was seized by officials at an airport in Montreal. The parcel, without its illegal contents, was sent on to its Edmonton destination with the help of RCMP.
Armed with a warrant, Mounties then searched a Mill Woods home, seizing about $7,200 in cash, an unsafely stored 9-mm handgun, 12,600 tablets of the anabolic steroid stanozolol and 4,650 tablets of nandrolone.