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Pasco Deputy Indicted On Steroid Charge
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Published: April 11, 2008
TAMPA - A former Pasco County detention deputy was indicted today on a federal charge that he possessed steroids with the intent to distribute.
Rodney Philon was arrested last month as part of another investigation involving Pasco Deputy Don Riggans, who was accused of being part of a scheme to distribute hundreds of thousands of tablets of oxycodone.
Philon is accused of giving the steroid to a confidential source for the Drug Enforcement Administration on March 15 in Pasco County. According to a criminal complaint affidavit, a source met Philon through Kevin Massimino and participated in a weightlifting workout with both Massimino and Philon.
Massimino, who is also charged in the oxycodone scheme, told the source that Philon had provided him steroids, and the source asked Philon whether he or she could purchase some, the complaint states.
Philon initially said he had just completed his own cycle and was taking a week off and would provide the drugs to the source when he resumed, the complaint states. The source asked whether he or she could start earlier, and Philon said he would try to get the steroids, the complaint states.
The source made arrangements to meet Philon at a Publix supermarket on State Road 54 in Pasco. There, Philon gave the source a plastic sandwich bag with 10 pink tablets of Dianabol, the complaint states. Philon told the source how to use the pills.
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