Local chemist's lab, home raided

The owner of Proviant Technologies Inc., a Champaign company raided by federal agents investigating a sports doping scandal, is cooperating with authorities and expects to be absolved of any wrongdoing.

Federal agents raided the laboratory and home of Patrick Arnold, a Champaign chemist who authorities believe created one of the steroids at the heart of the BALCO sports doping scandal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

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