When Delaware police officers knocked on their door two months ago, Roy and Mary Gariepy’s hearts sank. They had a hunch it was the horrible news they suspected might come — they had been discussing for a few months the likelihood that their 23-year-old daughter, Chelsea Gariepy, would end up dead soon.
COLUMBUS — A steroid ring uncovered in Ohio used drugs imported from China and processed at a secret lab in Tennessee to peddle drugs to high school athletes and other customers with a business model that implemented techniques such as bonuses and rebates, authorities said Tuesday.
The legal sale of bath salts, an addictive and potentially lethal drug, comes to an end in Delaware County and Ohio today, but for Tanya White and her boyfriend, Kenneth Stiles, the ban is too late. “He had tried bath salts a few times in Marion and originally enjoyed the sedating effect it had,” White said, recalling her boyfriend’s final days.