BPD puts squeeze on juicing cops
The stepbrother of murder victim Imette St. Guillen is among seven decorated officers suspended without pay for admitting they previously abused steroids as far back as 2001, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis somberly announced yesterday.
“There’s an emerging trend in law enforcement regarding the use of steroids,” Davis said in culmination of a three-year internal probe. “Unfortunately, we were on the leading edge of this. Luckily, it’s not very widespread.”
None of the seven will face criminal charges and no additional names are waiting in the wings.
The same may not be so, however, for cops who dallied at an after-hours brothel and unlicensed saloon in Hyde Park infamously dubbed the Boom-Boom Room, whose hard-partying history Davis confirmed is under investigation by a federal grand jury.