Affidavit: Doc wrote large steroid prescriptions for Benoit, By: John Munford

07/02/2007

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit, suspected of killing his wife and child before killing himself at the family’s Fayette home last week, was prescribed a large amount of steroids every three to four weeks for the year ending May 9, 2007, according to an affidavit filed to secure a search warrant on Benoit’s doctor, Phil Astin III of Carrollton.

According to the affidavit, Astin prescribed Benoit — on average — a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids for Benoit every three to four weeks from May 4, 2006 to May 9, 2007.

The affidavit, filed by Anissa M. Jones of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, also stated that Benoit also had been identified as “an excessive purchaser of injectable steroids,” in a pending federal case being prosecuted in Georgia of a company called Rx Weight Loss.

Benoit, his wife Nancy and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their central Fayette home just east of Peachtree City Monday, June 25. Authorities believe Chris Benoit bound and killed Nancy Benoit and later choked his son to death before killing himself.

Astin is charged with seven federal counts of violating federal drug control laws for writing prescriptions without a medical need. The search warrants were executed on his Carrollton office as well as his mother’s house, where he told federal agents he had been staying at the time of the raid.