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Starkey pleads guilty to dealing steroids
In the Rush Superior Court, David Starkey, Rushville, admitted to manufacturing and distributing illegal anabolic steroids for Uncle Z. In a plea agreement negotiated between Starkey’s representatives and Rush County Prosecutor Phil Caviness, Starkey was sentenced to 17 years in the Indiana Department of Correction. Under the terms of the plea, Starkey will serve 12 years in prison, followed by three years house arrest under the supervision of the Rush County Community Corrections Program, followed by two years of probation.
Rush County Prosecutor Philip Caviness explained that Starkey pleaded guilty to Dealing in a Schedule III Controlled Substance as a Level 2 Felony, and under Indiana law a Level 2 felony only allows a convict to receive one day of good time credit for every three days actually served. Assuming he receives all of his good time credit from the Department of Correction, Starkey should spend nine actual years in prison before being released to home detention and probation.
The case began in August of last year when investigators from the Rushville Police Department, Homeland Security and the US Postal Service served warrants on Starkey and his wife, Holly J. Starkey, and found a steroid laboratory in their home. Investigators also had evidence that Starkey had been receiving ingredients through the mail, manufacturing finished steroid products, and shipping them around the country and overseas.
After his arrest, Starkey showed investigators how he made the steroids and seemed cooperative. He then bonded out of jail and continued to manufacture steroids and was arrested again in January 2015, and has been in jail ever since. Holly Starkey also was arrested and pleaded guilty earlier this year for her role in the steroid dealing scheme, and remains incarcerated at the Madison Correctional Facility.
Prosecutor Caviness stated that throughout this case, the Starkeys indicated that they didn’t think they were drug dealers, didn’t think steroids were as bad as other illegal controlled substances, and didn’t deserve the penalties they faced. In a failed effort to revise his plea agreement at sentencing, however, David Starkey testified about the terrible health problems that his own steroid use has caused him. Caviness added that steroids are illegal for exactly that reason – they are dangerous, especially when manufactured in someone’s homemade basement lab.
Source: m.rushvillerepublican.com/news/local_news/starkey-pleads-guilty-to-dealing-steroids/article_4fc3d628-d417-506e-b427-8700d5e36cf5.html
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