Authorities have raided the Houston office of Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray.
Federal drug agents and Los Angeles police detectives arrived in a convoy of 15 cars at the Texas office, shortly after 10.20am local time this morning.
More than two dozen agents were seen on the scene at the Montgomery Road address.
Murray’s office, which is located at the Armstrong Medical Clinic, is owned by a doctor whose Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) licence to prescribe drugs was revoked in 2005, for "over prescribing", according to officials.
Law-enforcement sources told US television network ABC that agents had obtained a search warrant for this morning’s raid, based on the preliminary results of Jackson’s autopsy, which showed the singer’s cause of death was linked to the powerful anaesthetic, Propofol.
Dr Murray – Jacko’s personal physician – has previously been quizzed twice by police and federal agents.
After the raid began, a spokesperson for Murray told ABC News, "Dr Murray’s legal team is looking into the matter. [There is] no other comment at this time."
Murray was the last doctor to see Jackson before he died, and federal agents want to know if he administered the fatal dose of Propofol, which is normally only used in hospital operating rooms.
Murray and his lawyer, Ed Chernoff, have refused to answer questions about whether the doctor administered the powerful drug to Jackson.
Jackson, 50, died at his rented Los Angeles mansion, on 25 June, after suffering cardiac arrest.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Michael Jackson did not just rely on his regular doctors for drugs but he made his way around several dental offices too. The singer would apparently adept in shopping for doctors. In 2003, the late King of Pop summoned a doctor to his suite at the Las Vegas Mirage because he was told that Michael suffered from a cough and sore throat. The physician said “The whole thing was staged. It was all a lie. They just wanted drugs. They wanted me to call in all these pills under someone else’s name.” When the doctor refused the prescription, Michael’s handler would use intimidation to get what the singer wanted.
The DEA is now lending their help to the LAPD in the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death. The latest targets are five different doctors who prescribed medications to the King of Pop. LAPD found medicine bottles around the singer’s home prescribed to his aliases and some bottles with no prescription at all. The police and the DEA are planning to question the doctors responsible for the bulk of the prescriptions to find out if Michael was receiving proper prescriptions or if there was any shady business going on. With rumors running rampant about Michael having a drug problem, it could only mean bad things for those doctors if they served as enablers.
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