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Posted Sep 11th 2009 4:00PM by TMZ Staff
Jeff Hardy -- one half of the WWE tag team duo The Hardy Boyz -- was busted today after cops found a boatload of pills and steroids inside his home.
The Moore County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at Hardy's home in Cameron, NC today -- where they found 262 Vicodin pills, 180 Soma pills, 555 milliliters of anabolic steroids and a residual amount of powder cocaine. Cops say the estimated street value of the drugs: $2,500.
Hardy was arrested on charges of "trafficking in controlled prescription pills" and possession of anabolic steroids.
Chief Deputy Neil Godfrey told us Jeff's brother posted bail, which was set at $125,000.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Tags: cocaine, drugs, jeff hardy, JeffHardy, pills, soma, steroids, the hardy boys, TheHardyBoys, trafficking, vicodin, wwe
Posted Aug 12th 2009 1:45AM by TMZ Staff
The medical examiner who performed the Billy Mays autopsy is under fire for allegedly screwing up the report -- and the man pointing the finger is one of the most famous forensic experts on the planet.
Famed medical examiner Cyril Wecht tells TMZ the people who performed Mays' autopsy were wrong to almost immediately list "heart disease" as Billy's official cause of death.
According to Wecht -- who personally reviewed the autopsy and toxicology report -- the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner should have pointed to "acute combined drug toxicity" as the cause of death.
Wecht claims the M.E. jumped the gun when they published the report and "chose to ignore the combined cumulative effects of the drugs in his system as the cause of death ... this was bad toxicology work".
The lingering question: With Billy's authorized prescription drug use, why would the M.E. be so quick to pin the cause of death on heart disease, before receiving the toxicology results?
In the end, the M.E. concluded cocaine was a contributing factor in Mays' death. There were also traces of several prescription drugs in his system, including Xanax and Vicodin.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Billy Mays, Exclusives
Tags: autopsy, billy mays, BillyMays, vicodin, xanax
