
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 24, 1993                   TAG: 9309240210
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

POLICE WORKER CHARGED WITH STEROID SALES

An employee of the Roanoke County Police Department was suspended this week after authorities learned he had been indicted in West Virginia on charges of trafficking anabolic steroids.

Kevin Meredith, 32, of Roanoke, was named in a seven-count indictment returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury sitting in Wheeling.

Lt. G.W. Roche of the Roanoke County Police Department said Meredith was suspended from his position of administrative analyst shortly after county officials learned of the charges.

Meredith was not a sworn officer in the department, Roche said.

Meredith was charged along with three other people accused of operating a "business enterprise" of distributing steroids in West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia.

The indictment charges Meredith with possessing with intent to distribute an undisclosed quantity of steroids within 1,000 feet of a school in Fairmont, W.Va.

Meredith is also accused of traveling from Roanoke to Fairmont "to establish and carry on a business enterprise" involving steroids from June 1992 to December 1992.

Roche said Meredith has been suspended pending a departmental investigative hearing, expected to be completed by next week.

by CNB