A former Riverton Police Department officer accused of mail-ordering illegal steroids has signed a plea agreement that could keep the felony off his record and give him 18 months of probation.
Logan Alley, 25, gave a guilty plea Friday to felony possession of trenbolone, a charge that is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fines.
While Fremont County District Court Judge Jason Conder accepted Alley’s guilty plea, the judge did not convict him. Conder next will review Alley’s pre-sentence investigation report, which is a summary of the man’s history and character, and will announce at a Dec. 19 sentencing hearing whether he will accept Alley’s plea agreement.
The plea agreement says that in exchange for Alley’s plea of guilty, the prosecutor, Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun, will agree to 18 months of unsupervised probation and a deferral.
The deferral referenced is a provision for some first-time drug offenders and allows them to dodge a conviction if they complete certain requirements, like probation.
Alley’s attorney Jeff Stanbury declined Thursday to comment.
Stanbury, LeBrun and Alley signed the plea agreement Oct. 3.
Postal Service Inspection
The investigation started in May when U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector Richard Fergon was reviewing mail business records and noticed a Riverton address had received several suspicious parcels associated with Darknet vendors and other drug seizures, according to an evidentiary affidavit filed in August.
Law enforcement personnel started monitoring mail parcels headed to that location, addressed to Logan Alley, says the affidavit. They also noted that Alley was an active Riverton Police Department officer at the time.
RPD announced Aug. 27, the day Cowboy State Daily first reported on Alley’s case, that he was no longer with the department.
At his Sept. 11 hearing in the Riverton Circuit Court, a crowd of about 20 loved ones filled the courtroom to support Alley, some weeping.
Incoming
On June 16, Fergon and a Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) special agent “became aware of a suspicious parcel” headed to Alley’s address, reportedly.
The USPS priority mail parcel had a return address in Las Vegas. Fergon drafted and obtained a federal search warrant for the package, due to previous packages heading to that address being associated with various drug seizures, says the affidavit.
Four days later, special agents executed the search warrant and opened the package. They found about 60 generic Cialis tablets in two separate packages, labelled as containing 25 milligrams of Tadalafil, a prescription-only substance similar to testosterone, the document says.
The DCI agent gave the package to the DCI Cody field office’s temporary evidence storage facility.
Fergon and the agent met June 20 with RPD Captain Wes Romero and Chief Eric Hurtado, to brief them on the suspicious parcel situation. They said they wanted to speak with Alley.
The affidavit says the supervisors agreed to have Alley come in at 3 p.m. instead of 5 to give more time for that discussion, and the RPD staff decided to put Alley on administrative leave pending the outcome of the DCI investigation.
That same day the investigators met with Alley at RPD as arranged, regarding the package and the pills.
Asked if he had a prescription for the pills, Alley countered, asking if this was a criminal investigation, says the document.
It was, answered the DCI agent, who also noted there was another incoming parcel headed to Alley’s address, reportedly.
“Alley admitted to buying various steroids such as Trenbolone from the website he believed was U.S.-based,” says the document.
Permission
The document says Alley gave agents permission to open that second parcel and admitted it would contain drugs like testosterone and trenbolone — two vials of each for personal use.
Fergon asked alley if he knew this was illegal, the document says.
“Maybe not the extent,” Alley reportedly answered, adding, “I’m not going to act stupid.”
Alley confirmed that he hadn’t sold or given away the drugs, reportedly.
He also said he didn’t use steroids while on duty, and they didn’t affect his performance at work, the affidavit says.
The document says Alley allowed the agents to log into his account on the website using his login and password, and they saw various shipments of steroids and testosterone.
Interception
On July 21, inspectors intercepted the second inbound parcel in Cheyenne. A DCI agent opened it, with Fergon present, and the agent found four vials containing “an unknown substance,” says the affidavit.
They allegedly were labeled “ROID PHARM super test 400 mg/mL” and “ROID PHARM Trenbolone Enanthate 250 mg/mL.”
Agents sent the vials to the Wyoming State Crime Lab.
Two months later, the crime lab confirmed to agents that the fluids tested positive for trenbolone enanthate, which is an illegal drug under Wyoming law.
Alley has served a couple of different stints with RPD. He was sworn in in February 2020 and again in May of this year.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
