Former Olympian faces drug charge

Published April 18, 2008

SYDNEY, April 17: Swimmer Scott Miller, who won a 100-metre butterfly silver medal at the 1996 Olympics, was charged on Thursday with drug offences along with the son of a former Australian rugby captain.

Police said they found a pill press capable of producing up to 27,000 pills an hour, and a professional tablet counter after searching a storage facility in northern Sydney. They arrested Miller, 33, and seized steroids after raiding a home later in the day.

Mark Catchpole, 40, was arrested at a nearby house at the same time.—AP

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