The Ultimate Fighting Championship struck a deal with the United States Anti-Doping Agency to help rid the sport of mixed martial arts of performance enhancing drugs. What happened here, however, is a few steps above USADA’s jurisdiction and whichever fighters who have associated themselves with Iron Addicts Gym in Miami, Florida may want to avoid going there from now on.
The DEA stormed the Iron Addicts Gym in Wednesday afternoon and arrested ten people for selling anabolic steroids. The DEA began investigating the case and suspects back in summer of 2015 after an informant told authorities that the Miami-based company named Wellness, Fitness & Nutrition was selling steroids on their website.
The names arrested for the raid are as followed: Richard Rodriguez, Edward Jacob Liff, Xzavier Apodaca, Byron Oliver, Erick Vittitow, Bader Alaskari, Bernard Duran, Jonathan Gonzalez and Rodriguez’s wife, Nancy Melo-Rodriguez.
