You think its local state or feds that look into it?
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BOTH.
International: customs has (as in really happened even in personal use cases) turned it over to the locals.
Domestic: it is usually the postal inspectors, and they will sometimes try to take it to the federal prosecutor, who usually isn't interested (personal use steroids on the federal level are a misdemeanor, and I am not sure growth hormone is a crime at all), but they, like customs, sometimes turn it over to locals.
The locals may or may not be interested, but in most states it is a more serious crime on the local level than the federal level, especially Republican "Just Say No" states, where it is almost always a felony to be in possession of ANY steroids.
And both of these happen. Most (almost all) packages get through without issue, but a small percentage gets intercepted.
USPS has a problem with "real" drugs being mailed, meth, heroin, etc. Marijuana is a biggie right now due to some states legalizing it and others not, so folks are mailing it out of state. They use dogs to sniff packages. These dogs often have a dismal failure rate - false negatives - but that is all it takes to deliver it to you, detain you when you pick up, and then get a judge's warrant to open the box. So, before you say, "But dogs aren't trained to sniff out steroids!" realize that you are missing the point. The dog hits. It is a false hit. It does not matter. The handler, who may have even cued the dog to hit, testifies that the dog hit. The certificate of the dogs training is entered into evidence, and that is it. Done. They have probable cause to open your box. Dog hits are sometimes done as a result of suspicious packaging (too much tape on seams, false return address, post mark that does not match return address, handwritten with no return address, etc. More often, however, the dogs are put on random packages, and at that point it is a roll of the dice as to whether the dog hits on your box or not.
The USPS has a lot of other factors to look at in determining whether a package is suspicious, and sources unfortunately engage in practices that are on the list of factors that the USPS says drug dealers do to the package. These factors are enough to give probable cause to open the package even without a dog hit.
If you find yourself in that situation, Rick Collins (steroid attorney in New York) says the best thing to do is say nothing at all. Don't admit anything. Don't lie. Just shut the fuck up and ask for your attorney.
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