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The leader of a ring that supplied steroids to some of the biggest names in baseball was arrested Tuesday along with six others. Among them: the cousin of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez.
A year to the day after 13 professional ballplayers were suspended in the biggest doping scandal in baseball history, federal DEA agents arrested nine people, seven of them for being part of an illegal network that provided major leaguers with steroids and supplied performance-enhancing drugs to teenagers, both in the United States and the Dominican Republic.
Anthony “Tony” Bosch, 50, founder of the now-defunct Biogenesis anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables; Yuri Sucart, cousin of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez; and Lazaro “Lazer” Collazo, a former University of Miami pitching coach, were among those charged in the PED case.
Collazo, who has operated baseball clinics and camps for young people for several decades, is accused of recruiting young baseball hopefuls for Bosch’s clinic. Some 18 of them paid $240 to $600 for steroid concoctions, prosecutors said. The teenagers attended public and private schools in the United States and a baseball camp in the Dominican Republic.
The kids, ages 15-17, were never examined by licensed medical professionals in connection with the treatment they obtained from Bosch, authorities said.
