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Old 06-05-2008, 07:37 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Former NFL steroid dealer found shot in home

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3427526

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PLANO, Texas -- 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.

David Jacobs, seen after pleading guilty to steroid charges in 2007, recently met with NFL officials -- and according to his lawyer, gave them the names of players who had received drugs he had made. He was found dead on Thursday.

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. Both had been shot.

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Jacobs was sentenced to three years of 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.

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."

Jacobs's father, also named David, of Jasper, Ga., told The Times in a telephone interview that he received a call from an anonymous person, who told Jacobs to call the Plano police. Jacobs said police were unable to tell him much about what might have transpired.

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On May 21, Jacobs met with NFL security officials in the Dallas area and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him, according to Hank Hockeimer, his lawyer.

Hockeimer told the newspaper on Thursday he had not yet been briefed about the situation at Jacobs' house.

The NFL requested the meeting after Jacobs was sentenced to three years of probation on May 1 for a single count of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids. He had cooperated with federal authorities since his arrest last year.
I know that this may sound like a blinding flash of the obvious, but something about this seems a little fishy, in the same way that an aquarium does.

Former dealer who (presumably) cut a deal after being caught by naming names, is found dead. And my guess is that there are plenty of people with both the motive of shutting him up and the opportunity of both available money and "associates".

Hopefully this doesn't get buried, because it could be something really big.
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Old 06-05-2008, 08:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Yeah, this kind of thing sounds more like a mob movie or the Sopranos than real life. Since it is making the rounds as a story, hopefully it shuold stay at the forefront.
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Old 06-05-2008, 08:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Probably won't since it doesn't involve a football player being arrested for drugs or a barfight or a dui.
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Old 06-06-2008, 12:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Probably won't since it doesn't involve a football player being arrested for drugs or a barfight or a dui.
Well, it could involve one being arrested for first-degree murder or conspieracy to commit...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3429424

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DALLAS -- A convicted steroids dealer who claimed to have sold drugs to pro football players killed himself, the Dallas County medical examiner said Friday.

Plano police found David Jacobs, 35, and Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, 30, dead of gunshot wounds Thursday in Jacobs' Plano home. A Glock 40 semi-automatic handgun was found beside Jacobs' body; no other firearms were found in the home, Plano police officer Andrae Smith said.

The medical examiner said Jacobs suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen and the head. The final report is expected in the next 48 hours.
How do you shoot yourself once in both the abdomen and head?

Also, from the Dallas Morning News...

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...Plano police also said today they see no conflict of interest in investigating the death of Mr. Jacobs, who publicly accused an officer of stealing from him. Mr. Jacobs never followed through by filing a formal complaint.

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Mr. Jacobs never filed an internal affairs complaint with the department after he claimed an officer swiped $4,500 in cash from his house during an April 2007 raid. Several police agencies, including Plano police and federal agents, were present when the search warrant was executed.

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Mr. Jacobs has also said his network had sold steroids to officers in Garland, Richardson, Dallas, Arlington, and Plano, but he had not publicly named names.
This just gets weirder and weirder.
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