Bazetta man faces federal charges

YOUNGSTOWN — Joseph Stiver, 27, of Bazetta who was sentenced to a year in prison in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in 2014 for operating a business that illegally sold steroids all over the country, has been indicted in federal court on new charges.

Stiver and Justin Robbins of Detroit are expected to enter guilty pleas in federal court to complicity to launder money.

The new charges say the two conducted financial transactions affecting interstate and foreign commerce by conducting and attempting to conduct financial transactions for illegal steroid sales from 2011 until February 2014.

As part of the enterprise, Stiver acquired a list of customers for Global Fitness on Elm Road in Warren and opened accounts in the names of Global customers in 2012.

Federal officials are seeking forfeiture of $59,560 that was recovered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and $2,000 seized March 6, 2014, at a location in Whitmore Lake, Mich.