A steroid manufacturing and selling operation in Hempfield that state police said was raking in millions of dollars was disrupted Friday as troopers worked with federal law enforcement to raid a home in an upscale neighborhood.

Authorities spent much of the day on Muirfield Drive, not far from Youngwood.

“We believe that there is millions of dollars of steroids being shipped … all over the country,” Trooper Steve Limani said. “It was being manufactured in the basement; there is a lab set up.”

Several police vehicles were parked Friday afternoon outside the home in the quiet community that was built next to Cherry Creek Golf Course, which has since closed. A search warrant was served at 10:30 a.m. after authorities got a tip about massive quantities of steroids being made and shipped from that location, Limani said.

No arrests were made or charges filed Friday.

A target of the investigation reportedly was working with a New York attorney who specializes in steroid law. The attorney could not be reached Friday by the Trib.

State troopers and investigators from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service confiscated so much evidence from the home that police had to bring in a van to transport it all.

Limani said the van was filled with thousands of vials of steroids, with a street value of $200 each.

Chemicals were being shipped from overseas to the home and a clandestine lab was set up in the basement with measuring devices and packaging systems, Limani said. The chemicals involved are not volatile.

“Steroids obviously are very dangerous, there’s a lot of implications that are health related, and that’s why they’ve never been approved to be used,” he said.

After a chemical mixture was concocted, the vials were mailed to customers.

“There’s labels to get shipped off to almost every state in the country,” Limani said. “It kind of blows my mind that somebody would order something online, it’s coming from a home in a basement where some guy’s mixing chemicals that he got from a different country. Kind of wild, but that’s what’s happening.

“You’re talking about millions of dollars of stuff.”

Steroids are a controlled substance and can be prescribed by a doctor for treatment of certain medical issues such as testosterone deficiency and delayed puberty, according to the DEA.

The Muirfield Drive property was purchased by Bryan Baldwin and Heather Hamilton last September for $489,000, according to the deed. Neither could be reached.

Limani praised the tip that led police to get the search warrant. Anyone with information is asked to call state police at 724-832-388.

“This was a good win for law enforcement today, very fortunate that we were able to get somebody that is just basically has a home system to try and generate and manufacture drugs,” he said.