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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Columbiana County, OH) Forty-three-year-old Michael Bess, a Pittsburgh paramedic, is on administrative leave and is facing a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment for giving his sixteen-year-old son steroid shots last spring. Court documents in Columbiana County, Ohio confirm this and Bess was trying to rehabilitate a shoulder injury that his son suffered when he was working part-time as a weightlifting coach for his son’s high school football team in Wellsville, Ohio last April. Bess was arraigned yesterday and he pleaded not guilty and madebond.