Holy **** this is ****ed up... I guess some big name NFL star didnt want to go down the Roger Clemens road. Steroids dealer found dead in home PLANO, Texas (AP) -- A convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him has been found dead in his home. Just after midnight on Thursday, Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell dead. Both had been shot. Officer Rick McDonald, a police spokesman, said the officers were making a welfare check after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts. He says Plano detectives aren't releasing information about whether the deaths were a double homicide or a murder-suicide, whether a weapon was found near the bodies, or any other details.
More on it: PLANO, Texas (AP) -- A convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him was found shot to death in his home Thursday, police said. Early Thursday morning, Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell dead. Police said both had been shot to death. Police spokesman Rick McDonald said the officers were making a welfare check after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts. Plano detectives aren't releasing information about whether the deaths were a double homicide or a murder-suicide, whether a weapon was found near the bodies, or any other details, McDonald said. Jacobs was sentenced to three years probation and fined $25,000 on May 1 after pleading guilty last year in federal court in Dallas to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids. His attorney told The Dallas Morning News that Jacobs then met with NFL security officials in the Dallas area on May 21 and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him. Hank Hockeimer, Jacobs' lawyer, has declined to publicly say which players bought steroids from Jacobs. But Jacobs has publicly said he sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of performance-enhancing drugs to former Dallas Cowboys player Matt Lehr in 2006 and 2007. Lehr has also played for Tampa Bay and Atlanta. Lehr's attorney, Paul Coggins, has said the player hasn't used banned substances since he was suspended for four games during the 2006 season while playing for Atlanta, and has since passed NFL drug tests. The attorney has also said Jacobs' allegations are retaliation because Lehr wouldn't pay Jacobs' legal fees. Hockeimer did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press on Thursday.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, waitaminute. Are you suggesting an NFL player is actually involved in some kind of foul play? There's just no freaking way.
According to ESPN the Magazine senior writer Shaun Assael, who had been in contact with Jacobs throughout May, Jacobs was reticent and nervous about the information he had and the people it implicated. When explaining why he did not want to go public, Jacobs said: "The kinds of people I know about could put a bullet in the back of my head."
Think about it, if you get a life time ban for using steroids a third time, that could be tens of millions of future salary lost for some players. A year suspension for a second offense is pretty huge as well. People have killed for much less than that.
Only in Dallas...well, I do believe an athlete would do this to save $$$...Jocks thinking they're above the law...
It could also be the supplier of the drugs that did him in. Why the assumption that it was an NFL Player?? You really think the cats who supplied Jacobs with steroids would like to be outed?
The guy also sold roids to several cops and he told the authorities of his apprehension to outing them due to what happened to a pharmacist in NYC that sold roids to some members of the NYPD and prior to testifying wound up dead. The Cops said it was a suicide, but the pharmacist was shot twice- head and chest. http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/informant-who-accused-metroplex-police.html Some folks don't play and I know I sure as heck would never trust the NYPD.
Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, the lady killed along with the guy, was a female body builder or fitness model. She was probably there to pick-up some performance enhancers and was an innocent victim, which sucks. Here are some pics of her: http://katestewart.proboards98.com/index.cgi?board=competitors&action=display&thread=320
I've always maintained that the NFL was the dirtiest league in professional sports. We're talking a league with hardened criminals, not just a bunch of weed-heads like in the NBA or 'roided up pitchers in baseball. NBA has an 'image' problem? I don't think so...
I feel horrible, but that movie quote was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw those pics.
Might want to check your sarcasm alarm buddy. I'm just kidding, there's no such thing as a sarcasm meter. And just to be safe -->
sorry heres the link http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/06/05/steroids.dealer.dead.ap/index.html
