Purple Panda Labs
19.09.2018

Louisiana Couple Brewed Steroids for Purple Panda Labs U.S. Domestic Operation

Kyle and Erica Roop were arrested on September 19, 2018 for operating a clandestine underground laboratory (UGL) that manufactured anabolic steroids for multiple brands. Most of the finished steroid products were labeled with the Aurum Rx brand name. But several readers noticed some distinctive purple labels on several of the injectable steroid vials that were seized during the raid of the Roop’s home.

It turned out that Kyle and Erica Roop were manufacturing finished steroid products on behalf of the international steroid source known as Purple Panda Labs. The Louisiana couple manufactured and distributed the steroid products as the U.S. domestic arm of the Purple Panda Labs operation.

Purple Panda Labs confirmed that Kyle Roop worked for him in a message posted on a popular publicly-accessible steroid discussion forum. Purple Panda Labs revealed that Roop’s internet handle was “Elite”. However, Purple Panda Labs insisted that the Roop was his “old brewer” and that he no longer worked with him or represented him in any way; he suggested that his “current lab” in the United States was managed by a different person or persons.

“I’m gonna address this bust now before people start to think this was my current lab,” Purple Panda Labs wrote. “The bust that happened was elite. My old brewer. That is why there was not a large stock of panda products or labels there.”

Purple Panda Labs took this opportunity to inform customers that he will temporarily discontinue his U.S. domestic operation for security reasons. Purple Panda Labs indicated that the security reasons were solely related to the relocation of a warehouse and had nothing to do with the Louisiana bust.

“But for the time being I am shutting down my domestic products in order to move locations of my warehouse (moving states). Once we are in a new location I will reopen the domestic shop again. This bust has nothing to do with the current panda domestic. I am only moving warehouse locations as an extra security precaution.”

Purple Panda Labs started out as a foreign-based steroid source that provided raw anabolic steroid powders to individual consumers and numerous small-time UGL operations around the world. He eventually decided to expand his operation to involve the shipment of finished and ready-to-use steroid products. He initially only shipped the line of Purple Panda Labs finished products from international locations. But Purple Panda Labs eventually expanded to include a U.S. domestic shipping operation.

Travis McDaniel, the cousin of Kyle Roop, disclosed extensive information to law enforcement officers about the logistics of the Purple Panda Labs operation in the United States. McDaniels told Pea Ridge Police Sergeant Michael Lisenbee that he received Purple Panda raw steroid powder on behalf of Roop.

According to McDaniel, Roop paid McDaniel $350 for every steroid powder package received. McDaniel told police that the packages were disguised and labeled as shipments of oatmeal and rice.

“[McDaniel] came clean about a lot of everything that was going on… He admits to us that he’s part of an operation with his cousin,” Sgt. Lisenbee said. “His cousin is named Kyle Roop. Kyle Roop and him engaged in an enterprise together. Kyle Roop would actually order steroids from either China or Thailand. He would ship the steroids to his cousin here in Pea Rridge, and then subsequently Kyle would inform McDaniel where he needed those packages to be sent.

“Roop gave him the opportunity to make some extra money, it just didn’t work out the way McDaniel wanted to, because he was started to get paid in Bitcoin and it prevented him from using the money from where he wanted to use it.”

Purple Panda Labs reassured his customers that Roop had nothing to do with the current domestic operation and Roop could “literally give them (the Feds) every ounce of information he had and there is nothing that they could do to my company.”

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