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- Aug 11, 2010
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Agents with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force brought a three-year investigation to a close Sunday morning when they raided a house in Coker and busted a man's steroid-manufacturing laboratory, a Tuscaloosa Police Department representative said Tuesday.
Sgt. Brent Blankley said the agents executed a search warrant in the 11000 Block of Lake Robinwood Road at 7 o'clock Sunday morning and found large amounts of liquid and powdered steroids, powdered Viagra, marijuana, lab equipment, drug paraphernalia and two revolvers in the residence of 47-year-old Ronald Eugene Wedgeworth Jr., who Blankley called a major supplier of steroids in the Tuscaloosa County area.
Blankley said the steroids and other drugs had a street value of approximately $200,000. The drugs, weapons and equipment were seized as evidence by the WANTF.
Agents took Wedgeworth into custody and ultimately charged him with unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, second-degree possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He was placed in the Tuscaloosa County Jail and remains there pending a $325,000 bond.