Nearly two years after federal agencies launched an undercover investigation into an international steroid distribution organization, two bodybuilding brothers from Watertown are receiving their prison sentences.

According to information released by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the IRS' Criminal Investigation unit, Justin and Jonathan DeProspo, formerly of 10 Merrill Road, were involved with the local distribution of steroids.

After pleading guilty to multiple felony charges, Justin DeProspo, 23, was sentenced April 4, in U.S. District Court to serve one year and one day in federal prison.

What an amazing achievement for Blonska, a supremely skilled performance-enhancer, who has been busted not once but twice. She was given a two-year international athletics ban after she was caught taking a steroid in 2003 and yet, through sheer strength of will, managed to resurrect her doping career in time for Beijing. Now that's a story worthy of an NBC athlete profile in soft focus with tinkly piano music in the background.

The Great Wall of China proved to be too much for Plano's David Jacobs, a former Marine. Hiking it in 2002 left him winded, feeling weak and embarrassed. It marked a turning point in his life, and he vowed to change.

He became a workout fiend. Then a training guru. And somewhere along the way, a self-taught chemist who produced high-grade anabolic steroids that would transform some of his customers into walking billboards for performance-enhancing drugs, Mr. Jacobs and people who know him say.