Sources say at least two dozen cops will be interviewed as a result of a steroids probe. It is a probe that one law enforcement official says could 'possibly cover the full spectrum of rank in the department.
According to one legal analyst, the investigation could hinge on whether the officers broke the law in obtaining prescriptions for steroids.
This case has ties to a case with an NYPD connection and an investigation that grabbed headlines beginning with a raid last October.
That's when Lowen's Pharmacy in Bay Ridge was raided by state narcotics agents looking in to a lucrative network of steroids-peddling health clinics and pharmacies in four states, including New York.
It turns out that some of the pharmacy's customers had been bodybuilding police officers.
Five members of the NYPD were suspended for allegedly using drugs improperly. And then last month, the owner of Lowen's Pharmacy committed suicide, after denying that he had done anything wrong.
Now, the criminal probe expands to Jersey City, where more members of the law enforcement community are under suspicion for illegal steriod use.
