DEA Investigating Florida Doctor in Manny Case
SportingNews.com
Jun 25, 2009
While Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez is back on the field in the club's minor league organizations as he nears the end of his 50-game suspension, investigators are looking into a Miami doctor and his son as the source of the slugger's banned performance-enhancing drug, ESPN.com reports.
Major League Baseball officials confirmed that they are aware of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation.
"We're aware of the investigation and our department of investigations is cooperating with the DEA," MLB president Bob DuPuy said Thursday. He did not address any other questions.
The investigators believe a prescription for hCG, human chorionic gonadotropin, was written by Pedro Publio Bosch, a 71-year-old Florida doctor. His son, 45-year-old Anthony Bosch, is believed to have been the contact between Ramirez and Pedro Bosch, according to the website.
Neither the DEA nor either of the Bosches would comment for ESPN.
Ramirez began serving his suspension May 7 and is scheduled to return to the Dodgers on July 3.
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