He has been criticized for his prosecution of defendants from Florida for selling steroids to residents of Albany County.

The police near Hartford caught a bodybuilder who was selling steroids as far south as New Haven, he said, and confiscated about 7,000 doses.

Anderson was among four men indicted last month on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to sell steroids.

"Milos has firmly asserted that he doesn't sell steroids," Collins said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Conte and three others have been indicted on charges of conspiring to sell steroids and money laundering.

In Canada, it is illegal to sell and distribute unprescribed steroids, but possession is a relatively minor offense.

According to published reports, one of several people arrested told the police he had sold steroids to members of the Swedish Olympic team.

After serving a four-month prison sentence prior to pleading guilty in 2005, he no longer sells illegal steroids, but various supplements and vitamins.

Duchaine initially claimed that he wouldn't sell steroids because he didn't know where to get them.

The two men were accused of selling police-confiscated crystal methamphetamine, anabolic steroids, and marijuana.