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A former New Zealand professional cyclist who was switching from elite sport to a drug dealer has avoided new penalties Pleading Guilty of Sale Ecstasy tablets across the Australian city of Perth
The former Dunedin road racer, Alex Malcolm McGregor, 28, pleaded guilty to eight charges in the District Court of the United States. Western Australia Thursday
resorted to drug use and trafficking after his career in the cycling world collapsed as a result of injuries and an investigation Anti-doping.
The eight charges McGregor pleaded guilty to were five MDMA sales leaders, providing a prohibited drug, possessing illegally obtained species, and possessing a prohibited drug with the intent to sell or supply.
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On Thursday, he was sentenced to an 18-month prison term, part of which
Due to the partial suspension of the warrant and the time that he was he has already been in prison, he will be released from his custody.
Twice winner of the Tour de Lakes in New Zealand, McGregor in 2013 Stuff He used painkillers to help his performance, and other riders did the same
Graeme Steel, the anti-doping boss of the New Zealand sport, expressed his concern by saying, "The athletes start doping themselves by doing things." Technically licensed, McGregor then said that he had taken over-the-counter painkillers before and during the races to intentionally mitigate the effects of fatigue, even though he suspected that it interfered with the drugs prescribed for the attention deficit.
The court of ?? Western Australia learned that the 28-year-old offender had committed a drug-related offense between March and July 2017.
He sold several batches of MDMA tablets on numerous occasions, ranging from 10 to 100 lots. tablets
The court heard some of the transactions at a Perth nightclub, a railway station, and a hardware store.
The tablets sold had a purity of 13 to 19%
McGregor was arrested by police in Leederville last July. When the police searched him, they found 100 MDMA tablets hidden in a pack of cigarettes.
A search of his home revealed more MDMA pills and money from drug trafficking.
He was charged with several offenses and released on bail.
Defense attorney Andrew Tehan explained to the court how McGregor thrived in cycling, so that he was selected to be part of a New Jersey racing team. Zeeland in 2007 and joined a professional cycling team in New York. Perth in 2013.
His career has allowed him to compete in cycling races overseas.
But Tehan told the court that McGregor's cycling career was interrupted abruptly for various reasons
. and a survey of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) that examined the use of human growth hormones by McGregor
The ASADA survey subsequently led to a ban of one year and nine months of sport.
McGregor fo He was working in a Perth cycling shop, but the company shut down in 2016.
Tehan said the closure had left him with no direction in life and that He had been using drugs and alcohol
. Regarding his use of substances since his arrest and he had no desire to return to this way of life.
"He's made a better person," said Tehan.
State Attorney Sarah Jessup has described McGregor as playing an "integral role" in providing MDMA to the WA community, even though she has stated that her drug sales business does not include a single drug. was not very successful.
"He is a person at the end of the day putting drugs in the hands of other people," she said.
Judge John Staude noted that McGregor had a supportive family behind him. 19659007] McGregor signed in 2013 a semi-professional one-year contract with Satalyst Giant Racing Team, based in Perth
There was no salary and a full professional contract remains a firm goal, he told the Otago Daily Times. 19659007] In the Tour of Southland that year, he won the title of the most combative fighter for his aggressive work at the front of the pack and in the breakaways. He finished sixth in the sprint category and 60th overall.
– watoday.fr
