It’s being called one of the largest steroid seizures in Canadian Border Services history.

37-year-old Greg Doucette, a body-builder from Halifax, was arrested on Aug 24 and charged with smuggling more than $250,000 worth of steroids.

A search of the suspect’s home, car and a storage locker in Halifax netted the drugs, distribution material and more than $23,000 in cash.

Albert Price, with The Canadian Border Services Agency, says the investigation started in Vancouver after the packages, destined for Halifax, were intercepted.

“When it would be opened, it would have an article inside, just a typical innocuous object, but investigators noticed anomalies in this size of the box and inside there are two, 100 gram pouches of steroids valued at $5,000 each,” he explains.

Price says the drugs were distributed throughout Atlantic Canada.

“The individual received the raw product in liquid or in powder,” he says. “Also seized at the residence and the locker were inkjet labels that were made to represent as if these products were coming from a legitimate business that did not in fact exist.”

The offences date back as far as 2010.

The drugs came from China, Thailand and the Philippines.

Doucette will appear in provincial court on Oct 10 to face charges of possessing, smuggling, importing, trafficking and distributing steroids.