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10-10-2008, 11:14 PM #1
Canseco detained at U.S. border (Charged Tue.)
Canseco detained at U.S. border
By Elliot Spagat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:59 p.m. October 10, 2008
SAN DIEGO – Jose Canseco was held for nearly 10 hours by immigration authorities after agents said they stopped the former baseball star as he attempted to bring a fertility drug from Mexico, his lawyer said Friday.
Canceco was detained at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing Thursday after agents searched his vehicle and said they found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription, said his attorney, Gregory Emerson.
Emerson declined to say if Canseco – who admitted to using steroids in a 2005 book that also alleged steroid use by other baseball players – had the drug, which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for use in males. The drug helps restore production of testosterone lost in steroid users.
The New York Daily News earlier reported the stop.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Virginia Kice, said Canseco was ordered to appear in federal court in San Diego “related to an alleged smuggling violationâ€NO AMNESTY
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