Every once in a while we come across information that we just can’t publish right away.
And, we know that’s aggravating for a lot of people, especially those who are on the inside of the news at hand, and are seeing it and reporting it to us, hoping exposure will bring about change.
But, sometimes, in order to change to come about, it’s best to sit on a news piece and wait for things to shake out, so that certain aspects of the information won’t change when we DO produce an article about it.
And we reached that point in June, nine months after the initial incident that started us—as well as authorities—on the investigation.
Here now is your even ing Read the Lead, Police officers focus of steroid investigation:
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Black book code with list of officer’s names said to be broken
Shawn Gregory
SALINE CO.— Multiple sources have independently confirmed a story that Disclosure has been sitting on for nearly a year: that the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) along with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been and currently is investigating several area police officers for alleged use and trafficking of anabolic steroids and possibly narcotics.
The case dates back to the Fall of 2013, when a bank robbery occurred in Harrisburg.
Through a series of events that began almost immediately (as in, as soon as responding law enforcement got word of who was involved in the robbery), the situation has unfolded and has lead to a current investigation into what has, up until that time, been only rumored to be going on in the area: rampant steroid use, trafficking…and, “cooking” steroids, a practice that’s come to be popular in recent years due to successes in meth-making, and which involves “enhancing” legally-obtained steroids with illicit substances to increase their effects.
And while there’s no direct indication that this “cooking” practice is going on, what may lead to at least indirect indication of it is a black book with information written in code that was obtained during the course of the investigation…and what code authorities are saying has been “cracked” and is aiding significantly in tracking down exactly who is involved, and their level of involvement.
Coming on the heels of this discovery is the June 24 plea the bank robber, Casey A. Heflin, 28, of Boaz, Kentucky, entered in federal court (U.S. District Court in Benton), where he was indicted in March of this year.
And locals in Saline County and in particular, in Harrisburg, are wondering exactly what information Heflin has been issuing now that he’s a federal convict and could spend the next 20-plus years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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