Man Who Claimed to Have Supplied Steroids to Capitals, Nationals Takes Plea

by A.J. Perez

Filed under: Capitals

The man who told authorities he supplied performance-enhancing drugs to the Washington Capitals and Nationals pleaded guilty to a single felony count of possession of steroids with intent to distribute at a federal courtroom in Tampa on Wednesday.

Richard Andrew Thomas of Lakeland, Fla., will serve eight months in federal prison, a plea his attorneys worked out after Thomas agreed to help investigators' inquiry of Washington-area chiropractor Doug Nagel. Nagel was arrested by deputies from the Polk County (Fla.) Sheriff's Department in March on seven counts of solicitation to deliver a controlled substance and a one count of conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance.

Nagel's case is moving forward in a Polk County court and there was a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday.

 

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