OT:Ex-steroid dealer who met with NFL found shot dead

[bankybruce]

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

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.

Just after midnight on Thursday, 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.

Officer Rick McDonald, a police spokesman, said the officers were making a welfare check after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts.

He says Plano detectives aren't releasing information about whether the deaths were a double homicide or a murder-suicide, whether a weapon was found near the bodies, or any other details.

Men in ski masks and jackets marked "police" were seen entering the home late Thursday morning, according to the Dallas Morning News.

The newspaper reported it had spoken with Jacobs frequently and exchanged e-mails with him as recently as last weekend. Jacobs had sought to rebuild his nutritional supplement business, but he was experiencing financial problems and having trouble getting his old client base to work with him, according to the report.

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 league 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.

By his own account, Jacobs was a prolific salesman, moving 1,000 bottles of anabolic steroids a month and an equal number of growth hormone kits that he obtained illicitly from China.

Hockeimer had said that league officials seemed "genuinely interested" in what Jacobs had to say, as well as in canceled checks and e-mails that he provided.

Jacobs has publicly acknowledged that he dealt primarily with two NFL players, and earlier identified one of them as offensive lineman Matt Lehr. Last month, Jacobs told the Dallas Morning News that Lehr purchased tens of thousands of dollars of steroids and growth hormone from the spring of 2006 to the spring of 2007. He also told the paper that Lehr agreed to have boxes of raw steroid powder from China shipped directly to his Georgia home.

Lehr served a four-game suspension while a member of the Atlanta Falcons in October 2006 after he tested positive for a banned substance. He spent last season with Tampa Bay and was acquired by the Saints in the offseason.

Lehr's attorney, Paul Coggins, has previously insisted that "we have been told by the prosecutors that they do not intend to bring charges" against him.

After his sentencing, Jacobs told The New York Times that he hoped to tell league officials about "loopholes in their program." He also said he'd advised about 10 players to use finasteride, a drug to treat balding, because it masks steroid use.

 

[Garthshort]

Round Up The Usual Suspects

This is Cowboy country. Let's say that Pacman and the Tank are persons of interest.

 

[Skkorpion]

Very interesting. I wonder what Goodell will do with the info he already got from

 

[vinnymac]

Just another dead drug dealer in my book.

 

[Southpaw]

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Dead men tell no tales.

 

[PoolBoy]

maybe he already told his lawyer or wrote it down.... if not, time for ray lewis, merriman, and leonard little to be questioned.

 

[Garthshort]

Jerry Jones

Tells the Commissioner, "you reinstate Pacman, and I'll make your drug problem go away". The commissioner replies, "let it be written, let it be done".

 

[joshstmarie]

Just another dead drug dealer in my book.

shallow.


annnnnyways, this looks like a VERY interesting LEAD.. could make for a great story if it unfolds properly

 

[Skkorpion]

Coroner, police and DA have ruled it a suicide. Case closed. May be valid but seems awfully quick to me.

 

[Southpaw]

Coroner, police and DA have ruled it a suicide. Case closed. May be valid but seems awfully quick to me.

Just like the DC Madam in Sarasota. Lots of that going around these days. You squeal, you keel.

 

[Skkorpion]

Oops, now the updated story is the DA has ruled the case closed but the police are saying nothing.

The details of the "suicide" are even stranger. Jacobs was shot in the abdomen and the head.

That begs the question: Did he shoot the lethal shot into his head first and then shoot himself in the stomach after splattering his gray matter? Or did he just want to feel brutal pain before dying, with a nice belly shot, before mercy-killing himself with the head shot?

 

[cardsfanmd]

Who shoots themself in the gut?? Oh yeah, nobody.

 

[earthsci]

Who shoots themself in the gut?? Oh yeah, nobody.

Someone in the NFL is a very bad person.

 

[Southpaw]

Oops, now the updated story is the DA has ruled the case closed but the police are saying nothing.

The details of the "suicide" are even stranger. Jacobs was shot in the abdomen and the head.

That begs the question: Did he shoot the lethal shot into his head first and then shoot himself in the stomach after splattering his gray matter? Or did he just want to feel brutal pain before dying, with a nice belly shot, before mercy-killing himself with the head shot?

Did not know the details. Wow. Good point Skkorp.

 

[SuperSpck]

Someone in the NFL is a very bad person.

Not as bad as the people who'd rule a suicide if it's not (we don't have any real details, so I'm not going to strongly disagree with the findings).

The only theory I could come up with that made sense was that the woman shot the man in the stomach. He somehow managed to get the gun away, shot her, then himself.

 

[vinnymac]

shallow.


annnnnyways, this looks like a VERY interesting LEAD.. could make for a great story if it unfolds properly

People who deal drugs deserve nothing buy shallowness when they die. For that is how they treat people as well.

 

[cardsfanmd]

People who deal drugs deserve nothing buy shallowness when they die. For that is how they treat people as well.

That is some pretty deep-seeded hatred you got there.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

People who deal drugs deserve nothing but shallowness when they die. For that is how they treat people as well.

I agree. The Bush backing pharmacuticals lobbiest that are overpricing drugs, and flooding the market with dangerous, non-FDA approved drugs are out of control. Forcing old people to choose between their house and there medications are evil.

And they get what they deserve!

 

[Southpaw]

I agree. The Bush backing pharmacuticals lobbiest that are overpricing drugs, and flooding the market with dangerous, non-FDA approved drugs are out of control. Forcing old people to choose between their house and there medications are evil.

And they get what they deserve!

Heh, heh. Good one.

 

[vinnymac]

I agree. The Bush backing pharmacuticals lobbiest that are overpricing drugs, and flooding the market with dangerous, non-FDA approved drugs are out of control. Forcing old people to choose between their house and there medications are evil.

And they get what they deserve!

Very well said.

 

[black]

Oops, now the updated story is the DA has ruled the case closed but the police are saying nothing.

The details of the "suicide" are even stranger. Jacobs was shot in the abdomen and the head.

That begs the question: Did he shoot the lethal shot into his head first and then shoot himself in the stomach after splattering his gray matter? Or did he just want to feel brutal pain before dying, with a nice belly shot, before mercy-killing himself with the head shot?

It is a shady case, my guess is that he must have fallen on some bullets after a break in.