Brian Casey Jackson, the Oregon City man who admitted selling steroids to a Canby cop three years ago, was sentenced in federal court Monday morning for several other crimes.
U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman spared Jackson prison time and ordered he be supervised on probation for three years for selling steroids to a man who now serves as an Oregon State University public safety officer and to a fitness equipment specialist, and for insurance fraud.
“It’s disappointing that someone with so much going for you, would stoop to commit these crimes,” Mosman said.
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But the judge said he was swayed by Jackson’s strong support from family and co-workers, that he’s employed full-time and has made efforts to make restitution for his insurance fraud.
Yet Mosman made it clear that now Jackson is “doubly blessed” for avoiding federal prison time. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Shoemaker had sought a one-year prison term for Jackson.
“While I view this as a just, fair sentence in this case, I also view this as a significant benefit to you,” Mosman said, adding that he expects Jackson to remain crime-free and pay full restitution. He must pay $38,963.92 in restitution.
Jackson, 39, had pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of anabolic steroids from June 2005 through June 2007 to Steve Beaudoin – sales that occurred just prior to Beaudoin getting hired by the university as a campus safety officer. Beaudoin remains employed on campus.
Jackson sold Beaudoin at least 50 pills of the steroid Winstrol, an injectable steroid called Deca Durabolin, Sustanon and, in June 2007, 100 pills of Anavar on one to two occasions. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Shoemaker also said Jackson sold Beaudoin $500 worth of human growth hormone.
Jackson also pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of human growth hormone from June 2005 to May 2008 to Bradley Worden, a fitness equipment specialist.
With about 20 family, friends and co-workers looking on, Jackson told the court Monday that he was sorry for what he had done.
deason.jpgView full sizeBruce Ely/The OregonianJason Deason, a former Canby police officer who was accused of buying steroids illegaly, makes his first court appearance in 2009.
“Not only did I violate the law, I put my friends’ health in danger,” Jackson said tearfully.
“I’ve made some bad choices, and I’m very sorry for this.”
He said he committed the crimes before he was married or had children, and apologized for the hurt he caused his family.
“It’s very hard for me to deal with the hurt and pain I’ve put on them,” Jackson said.
The federal charges sprang from an FBI investigation that arose out of the agents’ inquiry into Jackson’s steroid sales to then-Canby Officer Jason Deason. Agents discovered the sales through witness interviews and Jackson’s computer records.
Federal investigators also uncovered insurance fraud involving Jackson and his then-fiancee, now wife. Court records show Jackson falsely reported the theft of her 2006 Subaru Legacy in September 2007, stripped it of its leather seats and a rear spoiler, and then burned the vehicle.
“There is no question that both of these cases are serious,” Shoemaker wrote in a sentencing memorandum. “Dealing in HGH and anabolic steroids is not only illegal but presents substantial health risks to those who ingest these drugs.”
Shoemaker described the fraud case as a “sophisticated scheme to defraud two insurance companies.”
Jackson on Monday apologized to the insurance companies, saying he recognized that what he did drives up costs for consumers.
On Sept. 23, 2007, Jackson’s fiance reported her car stolen to Portland police and to her insurance company. She told both that she’d been in a bar and was too drunk to drive home and got a ride instead. When she went back to the bar, she said her car was gone.
She told her insurer that she had left the vehicle locked and she was the only key holder. Yet there was no broken glass at the scene, and the car required a special transponder chip in the key to start. The insurer suspected fraud but couldn’t prove it, and paid the claim.
Once the insurance claim was settled for $26, 614, Jackson is accused of selling the stripped parts on the Internet and depositing the proceeds into their joint checking account, according to a federal search warrant affidavit.
He shipped the spoiler to a buyer in Bend and sent the leather seats via FedEx to a buyer in Canada, the indictment said. The prosecutors said the couple was having financial difficulties at the time and was behind on their mortgage payments.
“There is no quick and easy way out of life’s problems,” Jackson said Monday. “I’m committed to paying back every last cent I stole.”
After the sentencing, Jackson stood and embraced his defense attorney, Harold DuCloux III.
In May 2009, Jackson, a former Oregon City High School strength and conditioning coach, was sentenced to 30 days in jail in Clackamas County after admitting in state court that he sold and supplied then –Canby Officer Jason Deason with steroids. Deason was seen riding his police motorcycle to Oregon City and purchasing steroids from Jackson while on duty and in uniform.
Jackson now works for Western International Forest Products in Beaverton.
