Ranger Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 http://www.theredzone.org/absolutenm/templates/template.asp?articleid=651&zoneid=1 PLANO, Texas (AP) A convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him has been found dead in his home. Just after midnight on Thursday, Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell dead. Both had been shot. Officer Rick McDonald, a police spokesman, said the officers were making a welfare check after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts. He says Plano detectives aren't releasing information about whether the deaths were a double homicide or a murder-suicide, whether a weapon was found near the bodies, or any other details. Men in ski masks and jackets marked "police" were seen entering the home late Thursday morning, according to the Dallas Morning News. The newspaper reported it had spoken with Jacobs frequently and exchanged e-mails with him as recently as last weekend. Jacobs had sought to rebuild his nutritional supplement business, but he was experiencing financial problems and having trouble getting his old client base to work with him, according to the report. On May 21, Jacobs met with NFL security officials in the Dallas area and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him, according to Hank Hockeimer, his lawyer. Hockeimer told the newspaper on Thursday he had not yet been briefed about the situation at Jacobs' house. The league requested the meeting after Jacobs was sentenced to three years of probation on May 1 for a single count of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids. He had cooperated with federal authorities since his arrest last year. By his own account, Jacobs was a prolific salesman, moving 1,000 bottles of anabolic steroids a month and an equal number of growth hormone kits that he obtained illicitly from China. Hockeimer had said that league officials seemed "genuinely interested" in what Jacobs had to say, as well as in canceled checks and e-mails that he provided. Jacobs has publicly acknowledged that he dealt primarily with two NFL players, and earlier identified one of them as offensive lineman Matt Lehr. Last month, Jacobs told the Dallas Morning News that Lehr purchased tens of thousands of dollars of steroids and growth hormone from the spring of 2006 to the spring of 2007. He also told the paper that Lehr agreed to have boxes of raw steroid powder from China shipped directly to his Georgia home. Lehr served a four-game suspension while a member of the Atlanta Falcons in October 2006 after he tested positive for a banned substance. He spent last season with Tampa Bay and was acquired by the Saints in the offseason. Lehr's attorney, Paul Coggins, has previously insisted that "we have been told by the prosecutors that they do not intend to bring charges" against him. After his sentencing, Jacobs told The New York Times that he hoped to tell league officials about "loopholes in their program." He also said he'd advised about 10 players to use finasteride, a drug to treat balding, because it masks steroid use. My guess is Arlen Specter is next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
124 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Nice. Boy is this going to be an interesting investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetmant87 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 yeah i cant wait to see whats up w/ this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSJets Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 They should just get the tape from Belichick to find out who did it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Destroying the tapes just wasn't enough, huh Goodell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 They should just get the tape from Belichick to find out who did it hahahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai Jet Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Destroying the tapes just wasn't enough, huh Goodell! Good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain_the_foe Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 They should just get the tape from Belichick to find out who did it LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Word to everything I love, in the middle of reading this the first thing that popped into my head was that somehow Belichick and the Pats are connected to this. The NFL seems to shut anyone up when it comes to them....I guess they'll go further than allowing tapes to be destroyed. Seriously, this is messed up though. This is something that the NFL are going to wish they werent apart of directly or indirectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetfuel Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Snitches get stitches .... or worse:shutup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUM-KNEE Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Snitches get stitches .... or worse:shutup: So I guess Kaczur should watch his back then....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetfuel Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 So I guess Kaczur should watch his back then....... It depends on exactly who he snitched on ... but yeah. It's a dangerous game to play. You never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
124 Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 JACOBS DEATH RULED SUICIDE Posted by Josh Alper on June 6, 2008, 4:17 p.m. David Jacobs died from two self-inflicted gunshot wounds, according to the Dallas County medical examiner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 So apparently they're going to go about this as either they both committed suicide or Jacobs killed Earhart-Savell and then himself. Interesting. I don't buy it. The man said it himself that he knew people that would or could kill him for the information he was going to release or did release (I'm not sure if he did or not, I've heard mixed reports). I haven't read anything breaking about this, but double suicide seems extremely unlikely. Murder-suicide is probably most likely. The guy was vilified, trying to continue in the same business when most of his contacts would be black balling him for being a rat. The girl and he were on again off again and he seemed way further along in the relationship than her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSJets Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 So he tried to kill himself by first shooting himself in the abdomen and when that didn't work, shot himself in the head? Seems a little strange to me that he wouldn't just go for the head first and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobe24jets Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 thats what happen if ya snitch stop snitchin stop lyin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSJets Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 thats what happen if ya snitch stop snitchin stop lyin stop typin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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