{"id":22325,"date":"2016-03-20T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fairbanks-man-charged-with-improperly-ordering-steroids\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:02:24","slug":"fairbanks-man-charged-with-improperly-ordering-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fairbanks-man-charged-with-improperly-ordering-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks man charged with improperly ordering steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014<\/strong> A competitive body builder from Fairbanks suspected of ordering thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of steroids from China has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Makkar was arraigned Tuesday on one count of attempted misconduct involving a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs officers in California seized a package in June with a Fairbanks address and Alaska State Troopers announced an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The package contained 1,200 anabolic steroid tablets and 11 vials of liquid testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers estimated the street value of the substances at $65,000.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say Makkar acknowledged ordering the substances from China and that he intended to use them in preparation for a body-building competition.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records did not list an attorney for Makkar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 A competitive body builder from Fairbanks suspected of ordering thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of steroids from China has been arrested. Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Makkar was arraigned Tuesday on one count of attempted misconduct involving a controlled substance. U.S. Customs officers in California seized a package in June with a Fairbanks address and Alaska State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22325"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}