Tinley biz owner gets 9 yrs for steroids :: The SouthtownStar :: News
Tinley biz owner gets 9 yrs for steroids :: The SouthtownStar :: News: "owner of a Tinley Park home-based business, previously sued for allegedly swindling the elderly , has been sentenced to nine years in prison in connection with a steroid smuggling ring.
Rick Boros, 66, was one of the owners of Purchase Meds Inc., which smuggled anabolic steroids and other prescription drugs from Mexico and Belize, hiding the substances in women's shoes and electronics from 2003 to 2006, according to federal prosecutors.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall sentenced Boros to 108 months behind bars, plus five years' probation once he's released, according to an Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman.
Boros, of Hinsdale, who also went by the alias Vince Kwiatkowski, was convicted in May 2008 on multiple felony charges.
Federal authorities said Boros obtained fraudulent prescriptions from doctors for customers' steroids and medications such as Xanax"
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